Hints and tips:
...EO is cinema’s second visionary donkey film — the first being Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar in 1966. Skolimowski has talked about how moved he was when he saw the film back then....
...But Childs and director Robert O’Hara never cease to conjure an anarchic sense of freewheeling theatricality that blends irreverent pastiches of racist motifs with pungent doses of toilet humour....
...I would suggest any discussion must consider TS Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, James Mercer Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, and Wallace Stevens, among others....
...I hum and haw before admitting defeat. It is very simple, says Crawford....
...references. haw‑lin.com. ignant.com. stamen.com...
...The difficult answer is that it can be itself – in Robert Frost’s phrase, “a momentary stay against confusion”, serving language and seeking not to lose sight of the world’s gifts....
...It helps that the alternative history is so credible: Rab Butler running a puppet government, Lord Haw-Haw in charge of the BBC....
...If I were you, I would listen politely to Mr Murdoch, hem and haw reluctantly, ask for $65 a share, and retire. john.gapper@ft.com...
International Edition