Tales from Ovid

Tales from OvidTales from Ovid, Ted Hughess masterful translations from the Latin of Ovids Metamorphoses, include the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas and Pyramus and Thisbe, as well as many others. When Michael Hofmann and James Lasduns ground breaking anthology After Ovid was published in 1995, Hughess three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had shown that rare translators gift

The result is a saga of epic proportions that plays out over a tense afternoon in one sweltering room

he embarked on an ambitious and lengthy shoot in the dense jungles of the Dominican Republic and like Werner Herzog with Fitzcoraldo and Francis Ford Coppola on Apocalypse Now

Archive interview with Marie Rivière on The Green Ray

and Heaven’s Gate

Many of the instruments and outfits are paired with pertinent archive photos

and Chop and Change

and edited by Mark Holborn

and “mentors” like Rem Koolhaas

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Michael Whelan

This radically new take on Cubism shows how Pablo Picasso

Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette