Mendes’ ‘1917’ intimate and epic

‘Camera can tell story in multiple ways’

Continued from Page 12 movie, built the office tower in Shanghai as a model and then we would move all the LED screens to begin to understand how the reflections work within those glass cubes. I remember sitting for hours with the lights off in the room in Pinewood with Roger and Dennis trying to work out how we would construct it. We did a similar thing with this, Dennis building a model of the town and putting the flares on tiny wires so we understood how the shadows fell and the big church in the center of it aflame and how the light from that would streak through and intersect with Scofield’s journey. That feeling that it was both an environment and a conduit for light - that existed in both of those sets. In a way, they’re my two favorite sets. They share in common that somehow the light and the world are one thing.

“1917” is designed to be seen on the big screen. How much do you think about a movie today having to compete with streaming?

Imus died Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas, after being hospitalized since Christmas Eve, according to a statement issued by his family. Deirdre, his wife of 25 years, and his son Wyatt, 21, were at his side, with his son Zachary Don Cates returning from military service overseas.

He died of complications from lung disease.

Imus survived drug and alcohol woes, a raunchy appearance before president

I’ve made franchise movies but I’ve also made movies on a much, much smaller scale that would today probably be on a streaming service, and would be fine on a streaming service. What I did want to do, though, was make a film where the audience went, “Oo, I’ll be missing out if I didn’t see this in a cinema.” But I don’t think there’s that thing that used to happen where pretty much everyone who made a story with a beginning, middle and end that lasted two hours thought it as their God-given right to be on a big cinema screen. That’s no longer the case. You have to fight for that.

You once compared your experience making two Bond films to “a siege.” Would you ever make a franchise film again? I imagine you’re conscious that in the time of one Bond film, you could have directed three plays.

Exactly. Or maybe five. I think my franchise years are probably over. Never say never - excuse the pun. I learned a whole amount. It was a great adventure. But I think

Clinton and several firings during his long career behind the microphone. But he was vilified and eventually fired after describing a women’s college basketball team as “nappy headed hos.”

His April 2007 racist and misogynist crack about the mostly black Rutgers squad, an oft-replayed 10-second snippet, crossed a line that Imus had long straddled as his irascible rants catapulted him to prominence. The remark was heard coast to coast on 60 radio stations and on a simulcast aired each morning on that in the end, the feat of engineering sometimes overwhelms the human element of storytelling. And it’s the human element of storytelling that interests me the most.

“1917” is dedicated to your grandfather, Alfred Mendes, who was a runner in WWI. What prompted you to return to him now?

The winds that were blowing before the First World War are blowing again. It was 100 years ago almost to the day that I started writing. The danger is that war is being gradually forgotten. Those that lived through it and fought in it are dead. These men were fighting for a free and unified Europe, which right now would be worth remembering in my country, perhaps. So, there is a sense there’s something unsettled in the air, the shifting of borders, the obsession with nation over universal good. I thought it was time to be reminded of that and also make a movie that’s not defined by its nation. It’s about the human experience of war. (AP)

MSNBC.

At the time, his “Imus in the Morning” show was home to presidential hopefuls, political pundits and his favorite musicians, a must-listen in the media and political corridors of New York and Washington. Ten years earlier, Time magazine had named him one of the 25 most influential Americans. But the remark made him an immediate pariah and he was dropped by CBS Radio and MSNBC. (AP)

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Busy Philipps and her screenwriter husband, Marc Silverstein, jet around the world a lot with their two daughters, ages 6 and 11, and often don’t have much time to plan ahead.

“My husband and I have always been spontaneous travelers because of the way that our jobs work. We never know and can schedule things aside from big holidays,” the actress told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

With the holiday travel season upon us, the “Freaks and Geeks” star is encouraging parents not to be afraid to book a last-minute family getaway. She’s promoting the HotelTonight travel app, which offer discounts on last-minute accommodations.

Just make sure the whole family is on board with the idea, she says.

“My friends who have kids are always asking, isn’t that more stressful? But it’s not. It’s better in a weird way because your expectations are lower and you’re kind of like all in it together,” she said. “It becomes a family adventure and the kids really get into it.”

As for traveling with kids, her advice is: Be prepared, bring snacks or even whole meals, and don’t be too tough on activities. (AP)