#cannes 2008

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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009, Terry Gilliam)

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Emily Watson, Paul Thomas Anderson, Adam Sandler, and Philip Seymour Hoffman at the 55th Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of Punch-Drunk Love, May 19, 2002

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Diego posando en la presentación del documental "Maradona" en el Festival de Cannes / Diego posing at the presentation of the documentary "Maradona" at the Cannes Film Festival (2008)

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Jack Black and Angelina Jolie, premiere of “Kung Fu Panda” at the 61st #Cannes Film Festival - 2008.

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lindsay lohan shopping in cannes on may 22, 2008 ✨

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Guan Xiaotong | Elie Saab Spring 2008 Couture gown | Cannes Film Festival | 2024

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Richard Woodman

Writer who drew on his own experience at sea in a series of novels and historical works about the British merchant navy

“The end was anticlimax. We slipped home unnoticed. Britain turned no hair at our arrival, as just as she has turned no hair at our extinction.” When Richard Woodman published Voyage East in 1988, he knew that the mercantile world depicted within it, which he had joined aged 16, was gone.

The first-person novel – which never reads like fiction – describes the voyage of a cargo liner carrying goods and passengers from Liverpool to Singapore, Hong Kong, Kobe and Shanghai in the mid-1960s. There is a moment, off the coast of Borneo, when the captain sees a vessel with half a dozen grey aluminium boxes on her foredeck: “What the devil are they?” he asks the pilot. “‘They’re containers, Captain,’ the Pilot replied, and no one on the bridge heard the sentence of death pronounced upon us.”

Woodman, who has died aged 80, became the memorialist of the merchant fleets. Between 2008 and 2016 he wrote the history of the British merchant navy in five volumes, followed by A Low Set of Blackguards, a two-volume history (2016-17) of the East India Company.

His outstanding contribution came through his three second world war convoy histories: Arctic Convoys (1994), Malta Convoys (2000) and The Real Cruel Sea (2005). These are works of passion, based on experience and scrupulous research.

The loss of life among merchant seamen was proportionately greater than in any of the armed services and the recognition they received far less. From the beginning of the war a seafarer’s pay was stopped the minute his ship was sunk. “Time spent fighting for his life on a float or lifeboat was an unpaid excursion,” wrote Woodman.

While Winston Churchill acknowledged the crucial importance of the Battle of the Atlantic to national survival, it was not until 2012 that those who had served in the Arctic convoys, and had taken the highest casualties of all, were retrospectively honoured.

Born in north London, Richard was the elder son of Rosalie (nee Cann) and Douglas Woodman, a civil service administrator. Though he was far from the sea, his imagination was captured by the works of Arthur Ransome, Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne and Alan Villiers, and his enthusiasm nurtured by Sea Scout membership.

He was the youngest member of the Sea Scout crew that sailed the ex-German yawl Nordwind in the 1960 Tall Ships race and, despite failing all but two of his O-levels, he was accepted as an indentured apprentice with the Alfred Holt (Blue Funnel) line in 1960.

His first long trip to Australia came as a midshipman on the SS Glenarty, returning via the US: “I had been round the world before I would have been allowed inside a British pub.” Life on board ship took place in an uncompromising, all-male environment: the almost compulsory swearing, drinking and sexist banter encouraged the development of “a carapace behind which we hid our private selves”.

Woodman responded eagerly to the hands-on education in seamanship and navigation, developed his writing and sketching through the log-keeping and read his way through the excellent ships’ libraries provided by the Marine Society. He completed his four-year apprenticeship and gained his second mate’s certificate. He was, however, in love and hated saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Christine Hite, an art student, for many months at a time.

He left Blue Funnel in the mid-1960s and went to work for the Ocean Weather Service, where he discovered how vicious the North Atlantic winter weather systems could be – and how pitilessly an ex-second world war corvette would roll. Fortunately it was not long before a temporary position became available with Trinity House, the corporation charged with the maintenance of navigation marks around England, Wales and the Channel Islands.

The position became permanent; he and Christine married in 1969 and settled in Harwich, Essex, near the Trinity House east coast depot, and he served the corporation for most of the rest of his life.

The work at sea was varied, challenging, sometimes dangerous. Precise navigation, seamanship and attention to detail were essential qualities, but Woodman also found time to write. His first novel, The Eye of the Fleet, was published in 1981. This introduced a series of 14 adventures featuring the young Nathaniel Drinkwater, a hero somewhat in the Horatio Hornblower mode but bearing the unmistakable stamp of a writer who was also a sailor.

Despite his professional career being in motorised vessels, Woodman loved traditional gaff-rigged yachts, particularly his own Kestrel and then Andromeda, in which he and Christine explored the east coast rivers and beyond. The action of his nautical novels often turns on neat, seamanlike manoeuvres as well as including varied and closely observed seascapes.

His productivity was astonishing. He often wrote two or three novels a year and soon added non-fiction to his output. When he became captain of Trinity House Vessel Patricia, he achieved this by having two desks, one from which he could conduct official business, the other hidden behind a door, with a page from the work in progress always ready in the typewriter.

Meanwhile, in his job he was extremely focused, conscientious and painstaking. Although some remember him as being of the “old school”, Jill Kernick, the first woman in almost 500 years to work at sea for Trinity House, credits him with helping her break through traditional barriers in the early 80s.

In 1997 Woodman retired to write full time, but was soon elected a Younger Brother of Trinity House, and then an Elder Brother, the first time a former employee was accorded this honour. He was diagnosed with cancer in 2003 but there was no let-up in his work rate. His last completed novel, A River in Borneo (2022), harks back to 60s Indonesia but sets its final scene in a Colchester hospice.

He is survived by Christine and their children, Abigail and Edward, and grandson, Arlo.

🔔 Richard Martin Woodman, master mariner and author, born 10 March 1944; died 2 October 2024

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Devon Aoki at Cannes 2008

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Guan XiaoTong in Elie Saab Couture - Spring 2008 77th annual Cannes Film Festival

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this is a masterlist of claire-related posts/edits/art. this follows a somewhat chronological order of events, with the first link being the earliest point on her timeline (so far). only plot/character development posts. i’ve organised it in three different parts: pre-hollywood u, throughout the game's timeframe, and post-hollywood u. my timeline for hollywood u has her freshman year at sept/2012 and her graduation at may/2016. most of it is canon compliant but i change things i dislike to fit my interpretation of the timeline. this list will be constantly updated/modified.

general/misc

• claire swanson oc tag • claire swanson inspo side blog • claire’s introduction post (03/10/24) • claire’s ref sheet (04/25/24) • swanson/stewart family tree • claire’s playlist • claire's letterboxd list (09/19/24) • claire’s filmography (provisional post; 08/19/24) • claire lore dump (10/18/24) • claire design notes (11/18/24)

pre hollywood u (feb/1990 — sep/2012)

• newspaper clipping of claire’s first big role (apr/2002) • claire + sebastian photobooth photograph (feb/2008) • claire’s myspace profile page (sep/2009)

hollywood u (sep/2012 — may/2016)

• welcome to hollywood (u) (2012) • hollywood u outfits, part 1 (nd) • hollywood u outfits, part 2 (nd) • claire’s driver’s license (ago/2014) • "clash at sunset" credit cards (jan/2015) • claire for vogue: what's in my bag? (july/2015) • "ticket to ride" film poster (july/2016) • claire for vogue: ticket to ride (aug/2016)

post hollywood u (may/2016 — present)

• "out of time" letterboxd page (2017) • claire at the 70th cannes film festival (may/2017) • claire’s films credit cards (2017-2019) • claire’s wikipedia article (2019) • claire at the 72nd cannes film festival (may/2019) • claire’s award list (up to 2020)

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arriving for the premiere of "Kung Fu Panda" at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2008 in Cannes, France

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