Author V.S. Naipaul, who documented the Third World and immigrant migrations as the British empire disintegrated, has died. He passed Saturday at age 85 at his London home, according to family members.
The conservative and controversial Naipaul, often compared to Joseph Conrad and Leo Tolstoy, wrote a dozen novels and more than 30 books overall. His most famous works include A House for Mr. Biswas, An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, and A Bend in the River.
Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Trinidad, gained an Oxford University scholarship, and then spent the rest of his life living in England. He was knighted in 1990 and won the Nobe Prize in Literature in 2001. Upon winning the Nobel prize, the Swedish Academy described him as “a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice.”
He also won won numerous other major writing prizes, including the Booker...
The conservative and controversial Naipaul, often compared to Joseph Conrad and Leo Tolstoy, wrote a dozen novels and more than 30 books overall. His most famous works include A House for Mr. Biswas, An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization, and A Bend in the River.
Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Trinidad, gained an Oxford University scholarship, and then spent the rest of his life living in England. He was knighted in 1990 and won the Nobe Prize in Literature in 2001. Upon winning the Nobel prize, the Swedish Academy described him as “a literary circumnavigator, only ever really at home in himself, in his inimitable voice.”
He also won won numerous other major writing prizes, including the Booker...
- 8/12/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The potential of controversial documentary India’s Daughter making it to the Oscar documentary shortlist could help change its perception at home in India, the film’s Us distributor said.
Mark Urman, the industry veteran who runs New York-based boutique distribution and marketing company Paladin, has worked on the team that spearheaded an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run for the film in Los Angeles and New York (starting earlier this month), also with select regional releases. PBS broadcast the film nationally in America last week.
“Even if it makes the shortlist it’s such an acknowledgement that the film isn’t what the [Indian] censor board says it is,” Urman told Screen. “It could be very important for the message of the film.”
The censors in India had said India’s Daughter was, in Urman’s words, “a hatchet job” that portrayed India in a negative light. It was banned from Indian release in March, partly over fears...
Mark Urman, the industry veteran who runs New York-based boutique distribution and marketing company Paladin, has worked on the team that spearheaded an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run for the film in Los Angeles and New York (starting earlier this month), also with select regional releases. PBS broadcast the film nationally in America last week.
“Even if it makes the shortlist it’s such an acknowledgement that the film isn’t what the [Indian] censor board says it is,” Urman told Screen. “It could be very important for the message of the film.”
The censors in India had said India’s Daughter was, in Urman’s words, “a hatchet job” that portrayed India in a negative light. It was banned from Indian release in March, partly over fears...
- 11/23/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
TORONTO -- Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment and ThinkFilm on Wednesday said they had signed a three-picture home entertainment distribution deal for the United States and Canada, beginning with the DVD and home video release of The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, which Jodie Foster stars in and produced. That release will be followed by CTHE handling the video releases of World Traveler, starring Billy Crudup and Julianne Moore, and Merchant-Ivory's Mystic Masseur, starring James Fox and Om Puri. The distribution arrangement was brokered by ThinkFilm president Jeff Sackman and Benedict Carver, vp of acquisition for Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Newly launched ThinkFilm has offices in New York City and Toronto, and has a film release slate that includes Gus Van Sant's Gerry, The Event by Thom Fitzgerald, and Love in the Time of Money, by Peter Mattei.
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