Cheers Cheryl. Monday seems a funny day to have it on.cheryl1700 wrote:The girl with the dragon tattoo london premiere is 12th december, cinema as yet to be confirmed.
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"It struck me that the movie (at least, judging from the trailer) will pull together elements from his great recent films: the investigation, from “Zodiac”; the search for lost time and a lost love, from “Benjamin Button”; and a Dionysiac gloss on “The Social Network.” Fincher is on a roll; he seems to be filming with an exhilarating sense of freedom."
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A Fincher fan site has uncovered a free, downloadable MP3 track from the score hidden on the film’s official site.
http://dragontattoo.com/swf/dotcom.mp3
A Fincher fan site has uncovered a free, downloadable MP3 track from the score hidden on the film’s official site.
http://dragontattoo.com/swf/dotcom.mp3
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Stieg Larsson, the author who could not get on a journalism course
Letter of rejection for campaigning reporter who went on to write Millennium trilogy likely to fetch £8,000 to £12,000 at auction
Part of Stieg Larsson's original letter of rejection from 1972
A letter of rejection from the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism in Stockholm to applicant 493 – the late Stieg Larsson – is to be sold at auction in London to help Expo, the anti-fascist, anti-discrimination organisation and magazine he helped create.
Despite the setback in 1972,Larsson went on to become one of Sweden's most fearless campaigning journalists before achieving posthumous fame with his Millennium trilogy of crime novels featuring the enigmatic heroine Lisbeth Salander.
He died aged just 50 in 2004 before he could reap the benefits of his work. He suffered a heart attack after climbing seven flights of stairs because the office lift was broken.
Many feel the success of the novels overshadowed his achievements as a journalist and the letter, which he kept for 32 years, shows he had to battle even as a young man. It will be included with a one-off box set of his three novels to be sold at Sotheby's to raise money for Expo.
Christopher MacLehose, who discovered and published the novels after Larsson's death, said the family was asked for something that was a one-off. "This is a letter saying 'you are not good enough to be a journalist' to a man who went on to create a supremely creative, crusading magazine which fought against the worsening tide of extreme right thinking and activity in Sweden. He did things which no other Swedish journalist came anywhere near doing."
Larsson's brother, Joakim, told the Guardian he did not think his brother became bitter at the rejection but "of course he was not happy. He thought he would apply the next year but I don't think he ever did. For me, it is very important that the money goes to Expo, that was his magazine and it is a very important magazine – they need all the money they can get."
The letter, which also has a pencil doodle on the back, has an estimate of £8,000-£12,000. It will be sold alongside a leatherbound box set of his novels – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – on 15 December.
Larsson put himself at considerable personal risk throughout his journalism career. He and his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, would sit in coffee shops facing in different directions, or taking different bus routes home, and one reason they did not marry - which has created problems since - is because their address would have been made public.
MacLehose said Larsson never stopped. "One of Larsson's great gifts, I've seen television footage of him, was staying calm in the teeth of lunatic, mouth-frothing frenzy – waiting for the storm to pass and then answering with the right answer."
The three books have sold more than 55m copies. The Swedes have made them into well-received films and the first Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig as the woman-magnet journalist Mikael Blomkvist, comes out this year.
MacLehose recalled first reading them and feeling he "couldn't not publish them", and thinks the 15 or so other publishers who turned them down, were daunted by their size. Plus, he said, there was a marketing orthodoxy, particularly in the US that said "you can't publish a dead person and if you make it worse by saying he was a dead Swede and you've got to pay for the translation".
The idea of the box set came from Mark Smith, CEO of Quercus books, which has the MacLehose imprint. Designed by British bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe the books are bound in crushed black Morocco leather and interlock with silver studs: a representation of the sado-masochism of some of the books' male characters.
Because Larsson did not leave a will and never married Gabrielsson, the estate is in the hands of his father and brother, and the two sides are in a bitter dispute. Gabrielsson is campaigning for a change in the law and said in a Guardian interview this week: "People whose misery was private, who have lost everything to their dead partner's family overnight, they cheer me on and say: 'You are our voice as well. Please don't be silent.'"
- it amazing only reason why thye not marry was for safety reasosn, in sweden married coupls addresses are made public
Stieg Larsson, the author who could not get on a journalism course
Letter of rejection for campaigning reporter who went on to write Millennium trilogy likely to fetch £8,000 to £12,000 at auction
Part of Stieg Larsson's original letter of rejection from 1972
A letter of rejection from the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism in Stockholm to applicant 493 – the late Stieg Larsson – is to be sold at auction in London to help Expo, the anti-fascist, anti-discrimination organisation and magazine he helped create.
Despite the setback in 1972,Larsson went on to become one of Sweden's most fearless campaigning journalists before achieving posthumous fame with his Millennium trilogy of crime novels featuring the enigmatic heroine Lisbeth Salander.
He died aged just 50 in 2004 before he could reap the benefits of his work. He suffered a heart attack after climbing seven flights of stairs because the office lift was broken.
Many feel the success of the novels overshadowed his achievements as a journalist and the letter, which he kept for 32 years, shows he had to battle even as a young man. It will be included with a one-off box set of his three novels to be sold at Sotheby's to raise money for Expo.
Christopher MacLehose, who discovered and published the novels after Larsson's death, said the family was asked for something that was a one-off. "This is a letter saying 'you are not good enough to be a journalist' to a man who went on to create a supremely creative, crusading magazine which fought against the worsening tide of extreme right thinking and activity in Sweden. He did things which no other Swedish journalist came anywhere near doing."
Larsson's brother, Joakim, told the Guardian he did not think his brother became bitter at the rejection but "of course he was not happy. He thought he would apply the next year but I don't think he ever did. For me, it is very important that the money goes to Expo, that was his magazine and it is a very important magazine – they need all the money they can get."
The letter, which also has a pencil doodle on the back, has an estimate of £8,000-£12,000. It will be sold alongside a leatherbound box set of his novels – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest – on 15 December.
Larsson put himself at considerable personal risk throughout his journalism career. He and his partner, Eva Gabrielsson, would sit in coffee shops facing in different directions, or taking different bus routes home, and one reason they did not marry - which has created problems since - is because their address would have been made public.
MacLehose said Larsson never stopped. "One of Larsson's great gifts, I've seen television footage of him, was staying calm in the teeth of lunatic, mouth-frothing frenzy – waiting for the storm to pass and then answering with the right answer."
The three books have sold more than 55m copies. The Swedes have made them into well-received films and the first Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, directed by David Fincher and starring Daniel Craig as the woman-magnet journalist Mikael Blomkvist, comes out this year.
MacLehose recalled first reading them and feeling he "couldn't not publish them", and thinks the 15 or so other publishers who turned them down, were daunted by their size. Plus, he said, there was a marketing orthodoxy, particularly in the US that said "you can't publish a dead person and if you make it worse by saying he was a dead Swede and you've got to pay for the translation".
The idea of the box set came from Mark Smith, CEO of Quercus books, which has the MacLehose imprint. Designed by British bookbinders Sangorski & Sutcliffe the books are bound in crushed black Morocco leather and interlock with silver studs: a representation of the sado-masochism of some of the books' male characters.
Because Larsson did not leave a will and never married Gabrielsson, the estate is in the hands of his father and brother, and the two sides are in a bitter dispute. Gabrielsson is campaigning for a change in the law and said in a Guardian interview this week: "People whose misery was private, who have lost everything to their dead partner's family overnight, they cheer me on and say: 'You are our voice as well. Please don't be silent.'"
- it amazing only reason why thye not marry was for safety reasosn, in sweden married coupls addresses are made public
Thanks, Luna! Great read.
Love your avi! You got his expression exactly.
Is David Fincher’s “Dragon Tattoo” screening at New York Film Festival?
http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2011/10/07 ... rds-alley/
Love your avi! You got his expression exactly.
Is David Fincher’s “Dragon Tattoo” screening at New York Film Festival?
I wish it would, but it can be anything - Spielberg's "War Horse" for example.'Organizers at the New York Film Festival have revealed that a “work in progress from a master filmmaker” will screen Monday night, Oct. 10, at Avery Fisher Hall. The film “is due to be released in theaters this year,” which has Internet tongues wagging about what screening possibly could be.'
http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2011/10/07 ... rds-alley/
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It's based on a children novel about boy who followed his horse to war - something like that. I expect it to be very touching. It seems to have something special to it because Spielberg himself decided to direct it.tbossmc2000 wrote:Good find Luna, I like readying about Larrson, his work is so intense.
He was a brilliant man,
Sasha, what is War Horse about?
But you know what - it was labeled "completed" on IMDb, so it hardly qualifies as a "work in progress" anymore.
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Was it a true story or one of Spielbergs wornderful imagination?sasha wrote:It's based on a children novel about boy who followed his horse to war - something like that. I expect it to be very touching. It seems to have something special to it because Spielberg himself decided to direct it.tbossmc2000 wrote:Good find Luna, I like readying about Larrson, his work is so intense.
He was a brilliant man,
Sasha, what is War Horse about?
But you know what - it was labeled "completed" on IMDb, so it hardly qualifies as a "work in progress" anymore.
I really haven't seen much about it, I think I did see 1 trailer but for the life of me I can't remember it.
It's fiction. And I expect it to be very good. It's set in England and Spielberg invited mostly British cast for this movie including Tom Hiddleston from "The Deep Blue Sea" and Benedict Cumberbatch, who now starting to have high profile HW carrier (I first saw him in "Amazing Grace"). I think Spielberg loves European actors.tbossmc2000 wrote:Was it a true story or one of Spielbergs wornderful imagination?sasha wrote:It's based on a children novel about boy who followed his horse to war - something like that. I expect it to be very touching. It seems to have something special to it because Spielberg himself decided to direct it.tbossmc2000 wrote:Good find Luna, I like readying about Larrson, his work is so intense.
He was a brilliant man,
Sasha, what is War Horse about?
But you know what - it was labeled "completed" on IMDb, so it hardly qualifies as a "work in progress" anymore.
I really haven't seen much about it, I think I did see 1 trailer but for the life of me I can't remember it.
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thank you for the quick lesson on the movie, sounds really good, thanks,sasha wrote:tbossmc2000 wrote:Was it a true story or one of Spielbergs wornderful imagination?sasha wrote: It's based on a children novel about boy who followed his horse to war - something like that. I expect it to be very touching. It seems to have something special to it because Spielberg himself decided to direct it.
But you know what - it was labeled "completed" on IMDb, so it hardly qualifies as a "work in progress" anymore.
I really haven't seen much about it, I think I did see 1 trailer but for the life of me I can't remember it.
It's fiction. And I expect it to be very good. It's set in England and Spielberg invited mostly British cast for this movie including Tom Hiddleston from "The Deep Blue Sea" and Benedict Cumberbatch, who now starting to have high profile HW carrier (I first saw him in "Amazing Grace"). I think Spielberg loves European actors.