‘Art, Truth and Politics’ was the title of the speech given by Pinter at the Nobel Prize for Literature reception ceremony in 2005.
Read MoreMr Sands and Mr Pinter at the Keats and Shelley’s House in Rome
I get to the house of Keats and Shelley in Piazza di Spagna and Luca kindly greets us and shows us the way to a tiny staircase and we come to a room where other people are waiting.
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“What would you say if I would ask you to lend me your voice, Julian?” I imagine this was the kind of conversation during a lunch at Pinter’s home.
Read MoreA pint with Pinter helps to dispel the Mystery
Harold never betrayed you. That is why, as an actress, I am grateful and have a deep respect for him.
Read MoreThe best year of my life
A recent movie I’ve loved is “Lion”. Based on the autobiographical book “A Long Way Home”,
Read MoreHollywood, mainly, is a kind of shithouse
It’s as if I could see Harold when he was a child. I imagine him entering a movie theatre, on one of those misty English afternoons, sit down and watch a black and white gangster movie. He found them extraordinary, those movies.
Read MoreWhen Thom Yorke thundered
It was August of 2015 when the New York Times announced that Radiohead’s frontman, Thom Yorke, would be composing the “Old Times” soundtrack directed by Douglas Hodge.
Read MoreDear Harold…
Harold was 21 when he met Samuel Beckett in 1951.
Read MoreAnd Pinter whistled Visconti
At that time I was little more than a child. I didn’t know Old Times and my love for Harold had yet to see the light.
Read MoreA, B, C: characters wanted
How did Pinter‘s works come about? How was Old Times born? Where do the main characters Deeley, Kate and Anna, spring from?
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