Writer-director Angela Summereder discusses the hybrid approach of her movie, screening at Austria's Viennale this week, and her plan for a film about motherhood and climate tied to the Percival story ...
Jean-Pierre Grumbach (20 October 1917 – 2 August 1973), known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville (French: [mɛlvil]), was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, ...
Rob Kaiser, formerly a staff writer for the Chicago Tribune and director of the journalism program at the former Canisius College, lives in Buffalo, N.Y. What happened in the half-light of an upstairs ...
A historic site will soon be open for tours this month in Pittsfield. Herman Melville’s historic home, Arrowhead, is opening on May 17. Melville lived at Arrowhead from 1850 to 1863 and it was there ...
NEW BEDFORD — Herman Melville’s life-size statue will adorn the grounds of New Bedford’s historic Seamen’s Bethel where the author stopped before going out to sea, and which was the inspiration for ...
Although author Herman Melville never called New Bedford home, he wrote glowingly of the port city in his most famous work “Moby-Dick,” describing it as “perhaps the dearest place to live in, in all ...
November 14, 1851, marked the first day that the American public could purchase Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, the latest novel by the modestly successful author Herman Melville, for $1.50 (around $60 ...
Brock Hatton (Nathaniel Hawthorne) and Tyler Galindo (Herman Melville) in Melville & Hawthorne. Credit: Photo by Aaron Alon They met at a picnic in Massachusetts’ Berkshire mountains in August 1850 – ...
Moussa Kone, illustrator and Harpune Verlag, publisher. "Etymology," 2012. (Courtesy Moussa Kone and Harpune Verlag. Photo by Kathy Tarantola/Peabody Essex Museum) Happy birthday, Herman Melville! On ...