Incidentally...

[selenak]

James MacAvoy interview, apropos his playing the title role in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (which appearantly leans into homerotic subtext for Cyrano/Christian), which contains this gem:

I once sat with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and both of them had a ‘Macbeth-off’ where they started speaking Macbeth to each other. I had just finished doing Macbeth and I swear I could not remember a syllable, man. It was awful.”

Now we know how everyone entertained themselves when shooting Days of Fuiture Past. I wish there was a recording!


Farscape:

Deep is a John/Scorpius vid which is already a few years old but which I've only seen today, so I am newly enthused about its fabulousness!

Lastly, liraen, get this: according to this article in the SZ, the fantastic Dürer exhibition from Aachen moved on to London - only for the National Gallery to exchange two thirds of the exhibited content and completely change the focus from Dürer in the Netherlands to Dürer in Italy, then be surprised when as opposed to the very popular and successful Aix-La-Chapelle original, the result flopped. Boo. Hiss.

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[liriaen]

The Aix la Chapelle show was stellar, absolutely captivating, expressly because it put the focus on the day-to-day of Albrecht’s & Agnes’s trip, instead of the highlighting the usual “goes to Italy and discovers the light beyond the Alps” (which has its justification...) I’m very much in favour of “gimme less hero worship, more human being!” And Aachen did very well in that respect. (Omg the catalogue! It’s so massive, you could kill someone with that if used as a cudgel)
Which doesn’t mean to say I wouldn’t visit the London one, if given a chance :)

[selenak]

I wish I could have seen the Aachen one; as it is, I had to content myself with buying the catalogue, which, yes, OMG, lethal weapon! Given its proven success with an audience, you'd think the National Gallery knew better, but noooo, Italy it had to be. Maybe they thought a British audience just isn't interested in Dürer (or anyone else) in the Netherlands?

[liriaen]

Which is all the more surprising, I mean, the apparent disinterest in the Netherlands trip, since the research the Aachen curators did together with their Dutch and Belgian colleagues is of a rare depth and shows such significance for many of the featured artists’ oeuvre. To understate the trajectories they found would be falling behind the current level of discourse. The mind boggles.