This one’s for Carrie: Joy Division Wins Top Award at Cannes
A low-budget British film about the late JOY DIVISION frontman IAN CURTIS has won the Best European Film award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film, entitled Control, was directed by famed Dutch still and music video photographer Anton Corbijn and stars former warehouse worker Sam Riley as troubled Curtis in the years leading up to his suicide in 1980.
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Mick Castagna, writer, photographer, innkeeper, commuter, and our P.S. manager, runs the blog Jersey Lightning. He chronicles his life in Four Taverns, NJ* on the Deleware River. It’s a welcome window into a slower pace of life (anything is slower than NY) and the photos are great.
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But if you must distract yourself with online gadgetry, visit The Amazing Dostoevsky Machine:
Ordinary readers of Dostoevsky frequently complain of headaches, confusion, and a sense of inadequacy. Given the complexity of the Russian naming system, holding onto the names of all the characters is a formidable task.
I can attest. Take a look at the list of characters in The Idiot. Now multiply that about three for all the chummy variations of each name and you’ve got the dense reality of proper nouns in a Dostoevsky novel. The ADM replaces all those tricky names with names more agreeable to a native speaker of English, like Timmy, Duke, Maureen, and Nancy. Though “all of the beautiful subtlety of Dostoevsky’s half-mad gypsy scholar naming system is lost”, there’s no harm in futzing about.
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Mister Pip by by Lloyd Jones has won the 2007 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize: “Organizers announced Sunday that Jones had won the $19,840 book prize in the competition, open to writers in the Commonwealth of former British colonies.”
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