In the sixth and final season of "Peaky Blinders," Boston gang leader Jack Nelson is spoken of before he's ever seen. It's not until the end of the second episode that he shows up onscreen inside a cathedral, where series protagonist Tommy Shelby (Cillian Murphy) goes to meet him. James Frecheville, known for his role in the 2010 Australian crime drama "Animal Kingdom," turns around and says in a Boston accent, "Mr. Shelby," finally giving the elusive "Uncle Jack" a face, though the actor playing him is only five years older than the one playing his supposed niece, Gina Gray (Ana...
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- 8/8/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders series six.
Out now worldwide on Netflix, Peaky Blinders season six was filmed in locations around the UK, including Scotland, Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Lancashire and more. Find out which UK sites were used to stand in for Newfoundland, Boston and many more below.
Arrow House – Arley Hall & Gardens, Arley, Cheshire
Tommy’s mansion Arrow House (which he took from an aristocrat over his head in gambling debt between season two and three) is really Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire. It’s a Grade II listed stately home which was built in the first half of the 19th century and is currently home to Viscount Ashbrook and his family. You can visit here.
Miquelon Island, Newfoundland – Portsoy Harbour, Scotland
Miquelon Island was a French colonial outpost located just off the coast of Newfoundland on Canada’s eastern coast During US prohibition, being outside of Canadian and US jurisdiction,...
Out now worldwide on Netflix, Peaky Blinders season six was filmed in locations around the UK, including Scotland, Manchester, Liverpool, Cheshire, Lancashire and more. Find out which UK sites were used to stand in for Newfoundland, Boston and many more below.
Arrow House – Arley Hall & Gardens, Arley, Cheshire
Tommy’s mansion Arrow House (which he took from an aristocrat over his head in gambling debt between season two and three) is really Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire. It’s a Grade II listed stately home which was built in the first half of the 19th century and is currently home to Viscount Ashbrook and his family. You can visit here.
Miquelon Island, Newfoundland – Portsoy Harbour, Scotland
Miquelon Island was a French colonial outpost located just off the coast of Newfoundland on Canada’s eastern coast During US prohibition, being outside of Canadian and US jurisdiction,...
- 6/10/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for the Peaky Blinders finale ‘Lock and Key’.
Towards the end of the Peaky Blinders finale, when all the ‘black cat’ traitors had been killed or ousted from the Shelby family, the gang gathered in the woods of the recently dynamited Arrow House for a farewell banquet. Ada and Karl, Linda, Arthur, Charles, Charlie, Curly, Johnny Dogs, Duke, and housekeeper Frances… everybody but Lizzie, who’d left Tommy after he slept with Diana Mitford, and the newly disowned Finn, raised a glass to “family” as Tommy said his goodbyes. Tommy believed he was travelling to his death, but had a surprise on the way. We break that down, along with other questions fans may have after ‘Lock and Key’.
Why Was Finn Banished From the Family?
Because he failed the test set for him at Arrow House and chose his friend over his family. Ever since Arthur...
Towards the end of the Peaky Blinders finale, when all the ‘black cat’ traitors had been killed or ousted from the Shelby family, the gang gathered in the woods of the recently dynamited Arrow House for a farewell banquet. Ada and Karl, Linda, Arthur, Charles, Charlie, Curly, Johnny Dogs, Duke, and housekeeper Frances… everybody but Lizzie, who’d left Tommy after he slept with Diana Mitford, and the newly disowned Finn, raised a glass to “family” as Tommy said his goodbyes. Tommy believed he was travelling to his death, but had a surprise on the way. We break that down, along with other questions fans may have after ‘Lock and Key’.
Why Was Finn Banished From the Family?
Because he failed the test set for him at Arrow House and chose his friend over his family. Ever since Arthur...
- 4/4/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.
Tommy escaped. He escaped it all – the fascists and the fake diagnosis and his family and himself. He rode out of Peaky Blinders just as he rode into it, only this time (this drama loves symbolism) on a white and not a black horse. Season six had sent him to hell where he’d reckoned with his sins. Then a plot by his enemies presented him with a rare opportunity to ride for the hills and leave it all behind. And as we know, Tommy’s never one to miss an opportunity. When Arthur and Curly and Charlie rake the ashes of Tommy’s wagon for silver and gold, they’ll find his wedding ring and watch and think him gone. He’s free.
Free, that is, until the Peaky Blinders feature film comes out, when Tommy Shelby or Mr Jones or the...
Tommy escaped. He escaped it all – the fascists and the fake diagnosis and his family and himself. He rode out of Peaky Blinders just as he rode into it, only this time (this drama loves symbolism) on a white and not a black horse. Season six had sent him to hell where he’d reckoned with his sins. Then a plot by his enemies presented him with a rare opportunity to ride for the hills and leave it all behind. And as we know, Tommy’s never one to miss an opportunity. When Arthur and Curly and Charlie rake the ashes of Tommy’s wagon for silver and gold, they’ll find his wedding ring and watch and think him gone. He’s free.
Free, that is, until the Peaky Blinders feature film comes out, when Tommy Shelby or Mr Jones or the...
- 4/4/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.
That felt more like the old days. Having not counted himself among the living since France, Tommy’s terminal diagnosis seems only to weigh on him as a deadline, not a shock to the psyche. There was no grieving in ‘The Road to Hell’, only action. Tommy made deals, made threats, and made preparations for a secret strategy, the end-goal of which is known by him and him alone. There’s the man we recognise.
What is Tommy’s secret strategy this time? We know that it involves a trip to Canada, a $5 million “legacy”, streets of charitable housing, and derailing the fast-track to power currently being laid for British fascism. We don’t know whether it takes into account Jack Nelson’s similarly double-crossing scheme of doing away with Tommy as soon as his opium docks in Boston harbour. Knowing our man,...
That felt more like the old days. Having not counted himself among the living since France, Tommy’s terminal diagnosis seems only to weigh on him as a deadline, not a shock to the psyche. There was no grieving in ‘The Road to Hell’, only action. Tommy made deals, made threats, and made preparations for a secret strategy, the end-goal of which is known by him and him alone. There’s the man we recognise.
What is Tommy’s secret strategy this time? We know that it involves a trip to Canada, a $5 million “legacy”, streets of charitable housing, and derailing the fast-track to power currently being laid for British fascism. We don’t know whether it takes into account Jack Nelson’s similarly double-crossing scheme of doing away with Tommy as soon as his opium docks in Boston harbour. Knowing our man,...
- 3/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season six episode five ‘The Road to Hell’
The Garrison Tavern really needs to vet its staff more closely. Back in season one, it hired a barmaid who turned out to be working undercover as a spy for Churchill and the Royal Irish Constabulary. Her name was Grace, and her threat was neutralised when she fell in love with the owner Tommy Shelby and became his wife.
The Garrison’s next spy wasn’t neutralised with a wedding, but with a gunshot to the head. That was barman Mickey Gibbs, executed by Tommy in the season five finale after Gibbs was discovered to have been taking bribes from enemies of the Peaky Blinders to inform on their plans. Gibbs was responsible for alerting mercenary Paddy Rose to the presence of Colonel Ben Younger in Small Heath, which resulted in the car bomb that killed...
The Garrison Tavern really needs to vet its staff more closely. Back in season one, it hired a barmaid who turned out to be working undercover as a spy for Churchill and the Royal Irish Constabulary. Her name was Grace, and her threat was neutralised when she fell in love with the owner Tommy Shelby and became his wife.
The Garrison’s next spy wasn’t neutralised with a wedding, but with a gunshot to the head. That was barman Mickey Gibbs, executed by Tommy in the season five finale after Gibbs was discovered to have been taking bribes from enemies of the Peaky Blinders to inform on their plans. Gibbs was responsible for alerting mercenary Paddy Rose to the presence of Colonel Ben Younger in Small Heath, which resulted in the car bomb that killed...
- 3/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season six episode four ‘Sapphire’.
What a sorrowful hour. Maybe after that, all those Peaky Blinders fans who aspire to be Tommy Shelby will see that beneath the sharp cheekbones and the sharp tailoring there’s nothing to envy. Scrape away the cash and the cars and the power and there’s just pain, grief, and now, a deadline. One year to 18 months. To change the fucking world.
If Dr Holford and the country’s top three brain surgeons are right, Tommy won’t live to see the outbreak of World War II. Tommy also won’t live to see Mr Churchill become prime minister, but if his strategy comes off, he will have helped him neuter the fascist threat in Britain and stop the likes of Mosley and Mitford from rolling out the red carpet in welcome to the German chancellor and his new world order.
What a sorrowful hour. Maybe after that, all those Peaky Blinders fans who aspire to be Tommy Shelby will see that beneath the sharp cheekbones and the sharp tailoring there’s nothing to envy. Scrape away the cash and the cars and the power and there’s just pain, grief, and now, a deadline. One year to 18 months. To change the fucking world.
If Dr Holford and the country’s top three brain surgeons are right, Tommy won’t live to see the outbreak of World War II. Tommy also won’t live to see Mr Churchill become prime minister, but if his strategy comes off, he will have helped him neuter the fascist threat in Britain and stop the likes of Mosley and Mitford from rolling out the red carpet in welcome to the German chancellor and his new world order.
- 3/20/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders season six episode two ‘Black Shirt’.
Peaky Blinders is known to pay homage to different film genres with every season, from Westerns to Gangster flicks to Hitchcockian and conspiracy thrillers. In ‘Black Shirt’, season six revealed its genre: horror. From the Hammer picture image of lightning cracking over Tommy’s stately home, to Ruby’s scrawled drawings of the devil, and Tommy fighting the imaginary yellow-toothed “Grey Man”, episode two was filled with horror imagery – fitting, for a show about somebody who’s haunted.
Haunted, and cursed. Tommy believes that Ruby’s demonic visions and illness are down to a curse laid upon the Shelby family. At the end of the episode, he places a phone call to his widowed sister-in-law Esme Shelby-Lee, whom he hopes will lift the affliction. Even if Esme can lift the curse and cure Ruby, it’s doubtful whether...
Peaky Blinders is known to pay homage to different film genres with every season, from Westerns to Gangster flicks to Hitchcockian and conspiracy thrillers. In ‘Black Shirt’, season six revealed its genre: horror. From the Hammer picture image of lightning cracking over Tommy’s stately home, to Ruby’s scrawled drawings of the devil, and Tommy fighting the imaginary yellow-toothed “Grey Man”, episode two was filled with horror imagery – fitting, for a show about somebody who’s haunted.
Haunted, and cursed. Tommy believes that Ruby’s demonic visions and illness are down to a curse laid upon the Shelby family. At the end of the episode, he places a phone call to his widowed sister-in-law Esme Shelby-Lee, whom he hopes will lift the affliction. Even if Esme can lift the curse and cure Ruby, it’s doubtful whether...
- 3/7/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.
No wonder he’s having seizures; Tommy’s last deal is next-level complicated. He’s intercepted President Roosevelt’s route to British and Irish fascists to undermine their goal of installing a fascist leader in Britain and ultimately ushering in the ideology of their “friend in Berlin”. To do it, he’s pretending to sell Churchill’s secrets to Jack Nelson in exchange for a spurious opium deal that he’s really doing with Nelson’s Jewish enemies in order to unseat the kingpin from his Boston throne.
If this final strategy comes off, Tommy will have snuffed out fascism, avenged Polly’s murder, made more money than God, and earned his escape. That is, if Michael Gray, a brain tumour or a gypsy curse don’t kill him first. And seeing as Tommy’s adopting a ‘keep your friends close and your...
No wonder he’s having seizures; Tommy’s last deal is next-level complicated. He’s intercepted President Roosevelt’s route to British and Irish fascists to undermine their goal of installing a fascist leader in Britain and ultimately ushering in the ideology of their “friend in Berlin”. To do it, he’s pretending to sell Churchill’s secrets to Jack Nelson in exchange for a spurious opium deal that he’s really doing with Nelson’s Jewish enemies in order to unseat the kingpin from his Boston throne.
If this final strategy comes off, Tommy will have snuffed out fascism, avenged Polly’s murder, made more money than God, and earned his escape. That is, if Michael Gray, a brain tumour or a gypsy curse don’t kill him first. And seeing as Tommy’s adopting a ‘keep your friends close and your...
- 3/6/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Spoiler Alert: This post contains details about the Season 6 premiere of Peaky Blinders.. After a long wait, Peaky Blinders is back, just having premiered the first episode of the final season on BBC One this evening in the UK, and after the tragic loss of one of the show’s most important players, Helen McCrory (Aunt Polly), who passed away in April last year. Show creator Steven Knight and executive producer Caryn Mandabach sat down with Deadline this weekend to discuss the Season 6 premiere, the impact of losing McCrory on a personal and storyline level, and what’s ahead for the Shelby family.
Deadline: I’d like to start with Aunt Polly’s fate. Clearly fate played a role in what happened given Helen’s sad passing. Steve, did you have to go back and start over, or had you already factored Helen...
Deadline: I’d like to start with Aunt Polly’s fate. Clearly fate played a role in what happened given Helen’s sad passing. Steve, did you have to go back and start over, or had you already factored Helen...
- 2/27/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders Series 6 Episode 1 ‘Black Day’.
Who is Gina Gray? Ever since Anya Taylor-Joy’s character slunk into the Garrison Tavern, all fox fur coat and Betty Boop eyes, Peaky Blinders viewers have been asking that question. Michael Gray’s new American wife dropped like a bomb into series five. Her every appearance sparked fan theories: her pregnancy was a lie, she was Mosley’s co-conspirator, she was an assassin sent by a rival gang out for Tommy’s blood… When Michael boasted of Gina’s family connections in the illegal supply trade during his attempted coup, we pegged her as a gangster.
“Like everything else in this city, it’s in the hand of your Uncle Jack”
After the series six opener, it’s clear that ‘gangster’ is an oversimplification. Gina’s family is connected, but not just in the criminal world. The so-far unseen...
Who is Gina Gray? Ever since Anya Taylor-Joy’s character slunk into the Garrison Tavern, all fox fur coat and Betty Boop eyes, Peaky Blinders viewers have been asking that question. Michael Gray’s new American wife dropped like a bomb into series five. Her every appearance sparked fan theories: her pregnancy was a lie, she was Mosley’s co-conspirator, she was an assassin sent by a rival gang out for Tommy’s blood… When Michael boasted of Gina’s family connections in the illegal supply trade during his attempted coup, we pegged her as a gangster.
“Like everything else in this city, it’s in the hand of your Uncle Jack”
After the series six opener, it’s clear that ‘gangster’ is an oversimplification. Gina’s family is connected, but not just in the criminal world. The so-far unseen...
- 2/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for Peaky Blinders series 6 episode 1 ‘Black Day’.
An intricately crafted drama that rewards digging through the details (as our exploration of the hidden messages in the season five sets shows), here’s our weekly accompaniment to every Peaky Blinders season six episode, including references, locations, real history and more. Read our spoiler-filled episode one review here.
Episode One: Black Day Charlie Chaplin, William Blake, and The Shining
– The Romani gypsy words spoken by Ruby in her fevered state appear to be “Tikno mora o beng o beng”. In this English/Romani dictionary, ‘tikno’ means child or small, ‘mora’ or ‘maura’ means to slay or kill, and ‘o beng’ means ‘the devil’. Tommy takes those words extremely seriously and instructs Lizzie to keep Ruby away from horses and water, and to have Johnny Dogs’ eldest wife Esmeralda put a Black Madonna pendant around Ruby’s neck for protection from curses.
An intricately crafted drama that rewards digging through the details (as our exploration of the hidden messages in the season five sets shows), here’s our weekly accompaniment to every Peaky Blinders season six episode, including references, locations, real history and more. Read our spoiler-filled episode one review here.
Episode One: Black Day Charlie Chaplin, William Blake, and The Shining
– The Romani gypsy words spoken by Ruby in her fevered state appear to be “Tikno mora o beng o beng”. In this English/Romani dictionary, ‘tikno’ means child or small, ‘mora’ or ‘maura’ means to slay or kill, and ‘o beng’ means ‘the devil’. Tommy takes those words extremely seriously and instructs Lizzie to keep Ruby away from horses and water, and to have Johnny Dogs’ eldest wife Esmeralda put a Black Madonna pendant around Ruby’s neck for protection from curses.
- 2/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: this Peaky Blinders review contains spoilers.
What better tribute could Peaky Blinders pay to the character of Aunt Polly – and to the equally redoubtable Helen McCrory – than birdsong and fire and a portrait titled “Fuck Them All”? A portrait the eyes of which lingered in the sky at the funeral of the gypsy queen, watching over the sorry lot of them. The untimely death of McCrory from illness during the Covid-rescheduled production period necessitated a rewrite in which her character became a casualty of Tommy’s ambition. That deep loss was confronted head-on this episode, with a music-free funeral pyre and a vow of vengeance spoken into the flames.
This show’s always lived side-by-side with ghosts, omens and dreams. It’s set in a world where the walls between life and death run thin. So Polly’s gone and yet not gone. Tommy still talks to her. And...
What better tribute could Peaky Blinders pay to the character of Aunt Polly – and to the equally redoubtable Helen McCrory – than birdsong and fire and a portrait titled “Fuck Them All”? A portrait the eyes of which lingered in the sky at the funeral of the gypsy queen, watching over the sorry lot of them. The untimely death of McCrory from illness during the Covid-rescheduled production period necessitated a rewrite in which her character became a casualty of Tommy’s ambition. That deep loss was confronted head-on this episode, with a music-free funeral pyre and a vow of vengeance spoken into the flames.
This show’s always lived side-by-side with ghosts, omens and dreams. It’s set in a world where the walls between life and death run thin. So Polly’s gone and yet not gone. Tommy still talks to her. And...
- 2/27/2022
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
For more decades, famed swimmer Diana Nyad has spoken out about the sexual abuse she says she endured at the hands of her former coach as a teenager. Now, amid the onslaught of assault and harassment victims telling their stories, Nyad is making her voice heard yet again.
“This is not, by any means, the first time that I’ve written or spoken about my particular abuse story from my teenage years. But here we are. I’m not one to give up,” Nyad, 68, tells People. “I decided I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I wanted to...
“This is not, by any means, the first time that I’ve written or spoken about my particular abuse story from my teenage years. But here we are. I’m not one to give up,” Nyad, 68, tells People. “I decided I wanted to throw my hat in the ring. I wanted to...
- 11/13/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Raise a glass to the true hero of Daredevil. No, I'm not talking about Punisher, though he's pretty cool too. Nor am I talking about Karen Page, who is also pretty cool. I'm talking about the man himself, Foggy Nelson, played by Mighty Ducks Bash Brother himself Elden Henson. The man may not have any superpowers, and he may not have Charlie Cox's chiseled chin, but man does he got some smarts.
Foggy was a character that could have been an utter annoyance in Daredevil -- the man whose sole purpose is to fill time while Matt Murdock pounds the pavement -- but they sure as heck gave him a lot of interesting stuff to do. In many ways, his appeal also comes in his everyman nature, in that he could be any one of us set in this superhero-laden world.
Well, lucky fans, it sounds like Mr. Nelson will return,...
Foggy was a character that could have been an utter annoyance in Daredevil -- the man whose sole purpose is to fill time while Matt Murdock pounds the pavement -- but they sure as heck gave him a lot of interesting stuff to do. In many ways, his appeal also comes in his everyman nature, in that he could be any one of us set in this superhero-laden world.
Well, lucky fans, it sounds like Mr. Nelson will return,...
- 8/3/2016
- by Joseph Medina
- LRMonline.com
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced today that the 2016 News & Documentary Emmy Award honoree for Lifetime Achievement is documentarian and founder of Firelight Media, Stanley Nelson. Mr. Nelson is to be honored for his… Continue Reading →...
- 7/29/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Former Playboy Model Reveals Secret Romance with Prince in 1985: 'I Was Absolutely in Love with Him'
Musical genius Prince died April 21 at the age of 57. Subscribe now for an inside look into his private life and shocking death, only in People.June 1985 Playboy centerfold model Devin Devasquez is opening up about her fleeting but passionate romance with the late musical singer Prince in the 1980s. "He was small, but such a sexy, charming guy. I was absolutely in love with him," Devasquez, now an actress and producer, tells People. "During the Purple Rain tour he would fly me to all of the concerts, all over the country." The pair dated on and off again for six...
- 4/27/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
Former Playboy Model Reveals Secret Romance with Prince in 1985: 'I Was Absolutely in Love with Him'
Musical genius Prince died April 21 at the age of 57. Subscribe now for an inside look into his private life and shocking death, only in People.June 1985 Playboy centerfold model Devin Devasquez is opening up about her fleeting but passionate romance with the late musical singer Prince in the 1980s. "He was small, but such a sexy, charming guy. I was absolutely in love with him," Devasquez, now an actress and producer, tells People. "During the Purple Rain tour he would fly me to all of the concerts, all over the country." The pair dated on and off again for six...
- 4/27/2016
- by Rose Minutaglio, @RoseMinutaglio
- PEOPLE.com
The first three weeks of October 2002 was a tense time for anyone living around the Nation’s Capital. Living in Maryland I vividly recall the amount of fear the Beltway Snipers created, leading to special precautions at schools and people avoiding crowded areas. The movie that tells the story of those two snipers, Blue Caprice, captures that uneasiness with slow-building, methodical filmmaking. There’s a few familiar faces in Alexander Moors‘ film, including Tim Blake Nelson, playing Ray, an “unwitting accomplice” to one of the snipers. While he’s most famous for playing one of the many lovable morons in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Nelson has been working successfully as a writer, director, and, for the past year and a half, a member of James Franco‘s camp. Nelson has now acted in two of Franco’s films, As I Lay Dying and Child of God, making for a collaboration that has put a pep in...
- 9/11/2013
- by Jack Giroux
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The other day, Erik Childress spotlighted an effort to gather enough small contributions to produce a special DVD edition of the documentary The Way We Get By. The project is being coordinated through Kickstarter, a year-old Brooklyn-based organization whose name has been popping up on the Internet a lot lately. Call me crazy -- go ahead, I'll wait -- but I think this could be the way of the future for independent filmmakers and other artists to get their projects funded.
It works like this. Let's say I need $5,000 to make my documentary about the life of Charles Nelson Reilly. I launch a Kickstarter campaign, ask for pledges, and set a deadline by which the $5,000 needs to be accumulated. People can donate as little or as much money as they want, using a credit card and Amazon's secure payment system. (Amazon and Kickstarter are buddies.) But here's the twist: The...
It works like this. Let's say I need $5,000 to make my documentary about the life of Charles Nelson Reilly. I launch a Kickstarter campaign, ask for pledges, and set a deadline by which the $5,000 needs to be accumulated. People can donate as little or as much money as they want, using a credit card and Amazon's secure payment system. (Amazon and Kickstarter are buddies.) But here's the twist: The...
- 4/18/2010
- by Eric D. Snider
- Cinematical
New York City, summer 1980. I was a baby of 20 years working as an intern for the iconoclastic design master George Nelson--one of the most accomplished voices on design and architecture of the 20th century. He was a towering design hero to me, having defined much of what I knew as "modern" in design. I arrived eager to learn, but George spent most of his time in a closed office, thinking (or so I presumed). I wanted to chat but he was intimidating and unreachable, not even granting eye contact as he shuffled about the office.
I noticed that every afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp George would disappear for thirty minutes. One day I followed him. He was in the restroom down the hall--one of those turn-of-the-century huge pink marble rooms, shared by other offices on that floor. George was standing at an open window twenty-two floors above Gramercy Park, smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee.
I noticed that every afternoon at 4 o'clock sharp George would disappear for thirty minutes. One day I followed him. He was in the restroom down the hall--one of those turn-of-the-century huge pink marble rooms, shared by other offices on that floor. George was standing at an open window twenty-two floors above Gramercy Park, smoking a cigarette and drinking coffee.
- 9/8/2009
- by Dan Harden
- Fast Company
- Blake Nelson grew up in Portland, Oregon and much like the main character of Gus Van Sant’s latest film, Paranoid Park, of which Nelson wrote the source novel, he spent most of his teenage years skateboarding and performing in various bands. But (hopefully) where the two differ is that the main character of Paranoid Park, Alex, accidentally killed a security guard at an underground skate park.The film’s structure, although seemingly non-linear, flows smoothly through Alex’s struggles with guilt and adolescence. Paranoid Park mixes sound and film in a way that departs from Van Sant’s previous efforts and finally lands the audience in a world that belongs to teenagers and cinephiles.Blake Nelson’s novel is more linear but both works complement each other perfectly. The film almost acts as an existential interpretation of the novel which resides under the misrepresented umbrella term of “Young Adult” literature.
- 3/7/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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