Daniel Day-Lewis in 'The Insurance Man', 1986

YouTube: Daniel Day-Lewis in 'The Insurance Man', 1986

Now available through BBC America's DVD shop - The Alan Bennett Collection featuring An Englishman Abroad

Richard Schickel's Top 5 Martin Scorsese Scenes

Slate.com: Richard Schickel's Top 5 Martin Scorsese Scenes

"The Deadly Streets" (Gangs of New York, 2002)
This is a film that took too long to make. Its conception was, I think, clouded by the many choices it presented to Marty and, of course, getting the money together for it was very difficult. In the end, it perhaps contains too much in the way of undigested material and too little that would grant it emotional coherence. Marty just ran out of money before he could shoot the sequences that would have granted Gangs that quality. Even so, it flirts constantly with greatness—never more so than in the great, tribal riot that opens the film and sets its anarchic terms. It is not like anything else that Marty ever shot; violence in his films tends to the intimate, not the massive. But here he mobilizes vast forces in ferociously bloody combat. The result is a shocking, brilliant statement of the heedlessness of men engaged in dubious battle—and, just possibly, the most virtuosic piece of filmmaking Marty has ever created. (Video as well)

The VERY strange life of reclusive superstar Daniel Day-Lewis

The Mail in 2008: The VERY strange life of reclusive superstar Daniel Day-Lewis

Tom Hooper To Adapt Musical Version Of 'Les Miserables,' And Here's Who Should Star In It

Just Wishing ---MTV Blog: Tom Hooper To Adapt Musical Version Of 'Les Miserables,' And Here's Who Should Star In It

Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 4)

Flickering Myth Movie Blog: Understanding Scorsese: A Martin Scorsese Profile (Part 4)(Scroll for The Gangs of New York)

Link to the book at Amazon

Celebrate St Pat's Day with these actors

Celebrate St Patrick's Day with these Irish actors

Shamrocks & Shillelaghs: Screen gems from the Emerald Isle

CBS News: Shamrocks & Shillelaghs: Screen gems from the Emerald Isle

St. Patrick’s Survey shows Liam Neeson most popular Irish person in US

Irish Central:

St. Patrick’s Survey shows Liam Neeson most popular Irish person in US - Maureen O’Hara, Pierce Brosnan, Day Lewis, Bono next

Review: Arthur Miller 1962-2005 by Christopher Bigsby

Related -- Independent ie: Review: Arthur Miller 1962-2005 by Christopher Bigsby

Daniel and Rebecca on Charlie Rose

Charlie Rose interview - The Ballad of Jack and Rose - Daniel and wife Rebecca Miller

Friday's Forgotten Books

Dad related -- pattinase - Friday's Forgotten Books

PORT sets sail

Stack Magazine: PORT sets sail

PORT Magazine

The website for PORT Magazine - Daniel's essay in the first issue...

PORT Magazine

Creative Review UK: PORT magazine launches

Swara, who runs Swara & Co., and fellow creative director Matt Willey of Studio8 Design have been hard at work on the design of PORT and as the first copies went to press they sent us a PDF of a few pages of the launch edition, the cover of which features a portrait of Daniel Day-Lewis, whose report from Gaza runs in the issue.

DDL as Lincoln

Super Punch - Imagining DDL as Lincoln