Marianna Michael
Bio
Fashion-Writer, screenwriting, Art-Directing, daydreaming and Caffeine-consuming.
Stories (5/0)
Films Under Pressure
Sylvia Plath once said, “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want." For me, there are still so many films I have yet to watch.
By Marianna Michael6 years ago in Geeks
Short Fiction You've Never Read and Probably Should
In 2,232 words, Vilma Howard tells the tale of Belle—the woman with a scar on her finger. 'Belle'—Vilma Howard It was first published in the Spring of 1955 and published in The Paris Review, just two years after she had published "After The War"—two pages of verse in the same publication.
By Marianna Michael6 years ago in Geeks
Non-Festive Films for the Festive Season
It would be far too easy to create a list of all the Christmas films to watch over the festive season. All That Heaven Allows (1955), The Apartment (1960), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Peter's Friends (1992), and Elf (2003) are five films that I will readily add to any list of #Christmas films, or any list of films regardless of season. There's something comforting about them as well as the fact that the entire film, or part of the film, is set within Christmastime. And although many of these films are great, full of nostalgia, helping to submerge any Scrooge into the festive season, or enhance a love of this time of the year, it would be a disservice to so many other films to exclude them from the holiday period.
By Marianna Michael6 years ago in Geeks
The Best Pound I Ever Spent
Placed on the wrong shelf in my local bookshop, Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography was wedged in-between cookery books. The red sticker on the front showed it to be reduced down to a mere pound as it sat on the other side of the store from the sale section where it had obviously come from. The shiny new pound coin that sat in the bottom of my purse had found its calling.
By Marianna Michael7 years ago in Geeks