What’s quite awesome, you say? Many things. Firstly, The Golden Compass opens in theatres nationwide today. I’m so excited! We’re going to see it tomorrow at some point (because we’re lame and we didn’t go at midnight because we’re grown ups now and have ‘responsibilities’… tosh. We went to the midnight shows of Harry Potter [...]
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“From Elfland to…” Well, you get the idea of the conceit.
This article [broken link! Sorry!] fascinated me, ironically because I had just read Ursula K. Le Guin’s “From Elfland to Poughkeepsie” (1973) right before I started reading this article. It managed to articulate a lot of my personal anxieties about the Harry Potter books in a way I hadn’t been able to pinpoint before. I [...]
posted by erin on March 12, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/from-elfland-to-well-you-get-the-idea-of-the-conceit
the golden compass, the movie
IMDB has some excellent photos of the upcoming movie adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass (British: Northern Lights), the first installment of the His Dark Materials trilogy. They’ve optioned the whole trilogy. It’ll be interesting to see what the general public has to say about them — and the philosophy of the third book. [...]
posted by erin on January 31, 2007
http://blog.efdanehy.com/2007/the-golden-compass-the-movie
