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A new Antigone: actress Lisa Dwan on misogyny, female stories and why it’s time to speak up. As her new project with Colm Tóibín airs on BBC Four, the actress reflects on the atmosphere that...
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Mar 5, 2021 · Her story echoes down the ages, told and retold from Sophocles onwards — the slip of a thing speaking out, be it in ancient Thebes, occupied France, 1960s Latin America or apartheid-era South ...
Dwan’s films fuse two meanings of “plot”: a story-line and a map or diagram of a space. The patterns that he sees formed by human relationships are like the constellations: we can no more help turning the stuff that happens to us into stories than we can help seeing pictures in the night sky.
Sep 1, 1996 · It was Dwan’s idea to have him ruthlessly mug for the camera in Manhattan Madness, surely one of the first such happenings in a narrative film. Dwan repeats his famous “piss and shit” story – teaching Fairbanks how to smile for the camera by gritting his teeth and saying “piss” for a half-smile and “shit” for a broad one.
Starting in 1944, Dwan made four comedies for United Artists, all starring Dennis O’Keefe, including Brewster’s Millions (1945), the often-filmed story about a man who learns that he stands to inherit $7 million if he is able to first spend $1 million over the next month.
Both these movies were based on women-centric stories. Dwan’s most notable movie with Douglas Fairbanks was the 1922 flick ‘Robin Hood’. The movie acquired him the reputation of being a major filmmaker.
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Jun 5, 2013 · Dwan’s films offer a distinctively thick cross-section of society, bringing all strata, from grandees to grifters, together in his stories and in his turbulent, overflowing images.
