Posted in coronavirus, films, Mrs. Dalloway, You Tube, tagged Film, Hermione Lee, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf videos, YouTube on Thursday 27 August 2020| Leave a Comment »
This is a nearly one-hour 1987 dramatized documentary on the novel, with an introduction by Woolf biographer Hermione Lee.
This is an approximately 25-minute triptych featuring (among others) Hermione Lee, Eileen Atkins, Nigel Nicolson and Frances Spalding.
Posted in films, Vita Sackville-West, tagged letters, videos, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West on Sunday 19 July 2020| 1 Comment »
From the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain comes these resources: links to two short videos of an exchange of letters between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Both were recorded for Amnesty International and LGBTI+.
Posted in films, tagged Film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Cinema, The Conversation, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 26 February 2020| Leave a Comment »
It’s the 100th anniversary of the 1920 German expressionist film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” and Virginia Woolf is mentioned in the headline of the story on The Conversation website that celebrates that fact.
Virginia Woolf screensaver on an old keyboard-style Kindle
Woolf, the article says, “marvelled at how the set design mirrored the emotions felt by the characters and the audience: ‘it seemed as if thought could be conveyed by shape more effectively than words.'”
Woolf shared her thoughts in “The Cinema,” an article published in the July 3, 1926, issue of The Nation and Athenaeum. In it, she articulates her fascination with and fear of this newly evolving art form that at the time was strictly a black-and-white, silent medium that she believed was both parasitic and ripe with potential.
It is an art form that starts with the eyes, but the eyes are soon forced to engage the brain, she argues.
We behold them as they are when we are not there. We see life as it is when we have no part in it. As we gaze we seem to be removed from the pettiness of actual existence. The horse will not knock us down. The king will not grasp our hands. The wave will not wet our feet. … Further, all this happened ten years ago, we are told. We are beholding a world which has gone beneath the waves. – Virginia Woolf, “The Cinema”
Posted in films, music, tagged Dominick Argento, films, Godrevy Lighthouse, music, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West on Thursday 26 September 2019| Leave a Comment »
Here is a roundup of music and movie news of interest to followers of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.
Posted in events, films on Thursday 25 July 2019| 3 Comments »
Chanya Button’s new film Vita And Virginia will be shown at 8:15 p.m July 30 at the Barn Cinema, Dartington Hall, Devon,
The discussion will consider how Chanya Button’s film portrays the two main characters and their relationship, in connection with Kirsty’s own research into Virginia Woolf, as seen in her first book, Modernism and the Rhythms of Sympathy.
The event will also provide an opportunity for attendees to learn more about Dartington’s connections with the Bloomsbury group, and the founders of the Dartington experiment, Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, and the Arts department there.
The Q&A will be hosted by The Dartington Hall Trust’s Arts Correspondent, William Kemp, who before joining Dartington worked at Charleston in Sussex, the home of Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
