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	recent publications
		Tucker, B. and Anand, M. (2004) On the use of stationary vs. hidden Markov models to detect simple vs. complex ecological dynamics.
		Tucker, B.C. and Anand, M. The application of Markv models in recovery and restoration.
		Anand, M. and Li, B.L. Spatiotemporal dynamics in a transition zone: patchiness, scale, and an emergent property.
	www.laurentian.ca /biology/MANAND/anandlab/publications.htm (508 words)

	Film \| In brief: Pullman's Compass points to Anand Tucker
		A film adaptation of the first instalment of Philip Pullman's God-forsaking His Dark Materials trilogy is one step closer to realisation: Anand Tucker is close to signing to direct The Golden Compass (known on this side of the Atlantic as Northern Lights).
		Tucker, whose previous projects include 1998's Hilary and Jackie and the upcoming Shopgirl, was chosen over more than 50 other film-makers in part because of a comprehensive presentation he had put together which included conceptual art, visual effects demos, and a 20-page director's manifesto.
		Tucker also had extensive meetings with Pullman as well as the film's writer Chris Weitz, who had originally been slated to direct.
	film.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5258505-3156,00.html (309 words)

	ايجي فيلم - Pullman\'s \'Compass\' saga points to Tucker
		Anand Tucker is in negotiations to direct "The Golden Compass," the feature film adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy.
		Tucker, known for character-oriented work, such as 1998's "Hilary and Jackie"and the upcoming "Shopgirl," got the job in part because his presentation included conceptual art, visual effects demos and a 20-page director's manifesto.
		Tucker and Weitz willnow work together to further develop the film's screenplay.
	www.egyfilm.com /EngNewsDetail.php?ItemID=2266 (235 words)

	Anand Tucker to direct Pullman bestseller
		Anand Tucker, the British director who recently wrapped Shopgirl for Ashok Amritraj, is now walking Peter Jackson's path.
		Tucker, who has been dreaming of making a fantasy movie for a long time, renewed his efforts to bring Pullman to the big screen.
		Pullman, who has seen Tucker's films and who also had a say in the choice of the director for his trilogy, told reporters in London: ""I warmly welcome Anand Tucker as director of the first His Dark Materials film.
	inhome.rediff.com /movies/2005/aug/10anand.htm (294 words)

	Has 'His Dark Materials' finally found a director? - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Anand Tucker is rumoured to be the man taking charge of the first part of the trilogy, 'The Golden Compass'.
		Anand Tucker is in talks to direct the big screen version of 'The Golden Compass', the first of Philip Pullman's hugely successful 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
		Tucker, whose adaptation of Steve Martin's 'Shopgirl' is due to hit UK screens later in the year, hasn't signed on the dotted line yet, but if he does, 'The Golden Compass' production should get underway sometime in 2007.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/570.html (267 words)

	Brian C. Tucker
		Tucker, B.C., Anand, M. On the use of stationary vs. hidden Markov models to detect simple vs. complex ecological dynamics.
		Tucker, B.C., Anand, M. The application of Markov models in restoration and recovery.
		Tucker, B.C., Anand, M. The use of matrix models to detect natural and pollution-induced forest gradients.
	www.ualberta.ca /~btucker/experience.html (227 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| Film-makers on film: Anand Tucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Anand Tucker is a busy, busy man. With just two small-scale, intimate feature films to his name, he has been appointed by New Line, the company behind The Lord of the Rings, to direct His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's bestselling fantasy novels.
		Tucker came on board His Dark Materials when the original director, Chris Weitz, suddenly pulled out following reports of differences over how to tackle Pullman's anti-religious themes; it seemed New Line wanted these to be toned down.
		Tucker sees the key to this as Weir's decision not to show the crash itself until the very end of the movie.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/02/04/bffmof04.xml (741 words)

	New Line Cinema \| Press Releases \| 2005
		Tucker also had extensive meetings with Pullman as well as the film's writer Chris Weitz.
		We've been convinced by Anand's background and presentation that he is the ideal craftsman to deliver this project," commented Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, New Line's Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs.
		Tucker also served as a producer on 2003's Girl With a Pearl Earring.
	www.newline.com /press/2005/0808_tucker.shtml (830 words)

	Anand Tucker and Rachel Griffiths Tell All About "Hilary and Jackie"
		Anand Tucker: Well, to be honest, the emotional heart of the movie, the kind of center of the movie, is Rachel.
		Tucker: Well, we had a plan -- everything was storyboarded, but you have to be prepared to chuck it out the window when you get there.
		Tucker: But after Hilary du Pre had seen the film, she called David and said to him, "You know, Kiffer, you were David, completely.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Tucker_Griffith_990115.html (1483 words)

	andPOP \| 'The Golden Compass' points to Tucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tucker takes over from Chris Weitz, who said he resigned from the film because of its huge "technical challenges." Weitz will continue working on the film as a scriptwriter.
		"Anand Tucker was the first person to call me when I began my quest to produce His Dark Materials," said producer Deborah Forte.
		Tucker's latest film Shopgirl, starring Steve Martin and Claire Danes, is scheduled for an Oct. 21 release.
	www.andpop.com /article/4696 (515 words)

	Shopgirl (2005): Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras - PopMatters Film Review
		The film goes on to trace the strain of this relationship, as Ray is utterly unable to love her ("He's frightened of her," says Tucker, "I definitely related to the commitment-phobic aspects of Ray Porter").
		This is particularly devastating in the scene where Ray, as Tucker says, "breaks Mirabelle's heart." He has cheated on her with a former girlfriend (Rebecca Pidgeon) and tells Mirabelle as if in a supremely clunky attempt to push her away.
		As Tucker watches Danes writhing in agony on a bed, as Martin's voiceover reads the letter Ray has written and hand-delivered to her -- it's on the bed between them throughout the scene -- his voice catches.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/s/shopgirl-dvd.shtml (1467 words)

	Anand Tucker may direct first His Dark Materials movie
		New Line Cinema is in talks with Brit Anand Tucker to direct The Golden Compass, the movie adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
		Based on the bestselling Pullman novels, the "His Dark Materials" trilogy is comprised of "The Golden Compass," "The Subtle Knife" and "The Amber Spyglass".
		"Anand Tucker was the first person to call me when I began my quest to produce 'His Dark Materials'," said Deborah Forte, President, Scholastic Media and a producer on the film.
	movies.monstersandcritics.com /news/printer_1040037.php (511 words)

	Anand Tucker
		Though I'm disappointed that New Line and Anand didn't end up seeing eye to eye, when I was told the job of directing 'The Golden Compass' was open, there was just no way that I could pass it up.
		For his part, Anand Tucker is an admitted fan of the book, which he read about ten years before he began quietly pushing for the gig.
		Hilary and Jackie" helmer Anand Tucker is set to direct Steve Martin in Lakeshore Entertainment's "Shopgirl," a romantic comedy based on Martin's best-selling novella screenplay of the same name.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /p/anand_tucker/news.php (1151 words)

	Variety.com - Brit plucked for 'Compass'
		But nobody wanted the job as badly as Tucker, who won it with a presentation that included a 20-page outline, conceptual art and visual effects demos.
		Tucker said he was hooked when he read the book almost a decade ago, and has since quietly lobbied for the directing job.
		UTAUTA-repped Tucker took seven years to follow "Hilary and Jackie""Hilary And Jackie" with the upcoming "Shopgirl," based on the Martin novella.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117927134?categoryid=1876&cs=1&s=h&p=0 (875 words)

	Anand Tucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anand Tucker is a film director and producer.
		Tucker was scheduled to direct Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials trilogy", but in May 2006 was replaced by Chris Weitz.
		Was a director on The Late Show (BBC2)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anand_Tucker (77 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Pullman trilogy gets new director
		Anand Tucker was a producer on the movie Girl with a Pearl Earring
		Anand takes over from Chris Weitz, who said he resigned from the film because of its huge "technical challenges".
		Anand's previous work includes Hilary and Jackie, about the lives of musicians Jacqueline and Hilary Du Pre.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/entertainment/4133846.stm (363 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Don't Hate It Because It's Beautiful: Anand Tucker and Jason Schwartzman Talk 'Shopgirl'
		Tucker, a Brit whose last time in the director's chair was for Hilary and Jackie, describes his style as "ambiguous and European." The cuts are less frequent, the pace more languid than the stereotypical American film.
		Most modern films are too frightened to let you think." Tucker takes inspiration from melodramatic films of the past such as those directed by Douglas Sirk, and in particular Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Stairway to Heaven, the 1946 film in which David Niven must plead his case of love before a court in heaven.
		Tucker remembers a tense flight from London to New York to meet with Martin about the project.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-11-04/screens_feature2.html (566 words)

	Meet Anand Tucker, Hollywood director
		'I met Anand recently, having admired his film Hilary And Jackie [Tucker's 1998 film of sibling conflicts], and we had a long and encouraging conversation,' said writer Pullman in a statement.
		Tucker, whose father changed his last name from Thakkar, is a two-time BAFTA (British equivalent of the Oscars) nominee and the winner of the British Independent Film Award for Best Director for Hilary And Jackie.
		Tucker's Shopgirl had its world premiere at the recent Toronto International Film Festival where it was one of the better-reviewed films.
	www.rediff.com /movies/2005/oct/17anand.htm?q=mp&file=.htm (1277 words)

	LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: HILARY AND JACKIE
		It is a common practice in Hollywood to save Oscar-worthy films and release them at the end of the year, where they will be fresh in the minds of voting members of the Academy.
		Under the assured direction of Anand Tucker, making his debut, "Hilary and Jackie" is a film filled with passion and torment, hope and despair.
		Director Anand Tucker is also to be celebrated for his auspicious debut.
	www.lightviews.com /hilaryandjackie.htm (943 words)

	Tucker Maps The "Compass" Direction (August 9th, 2005) - Dark Horizons
		Anand Tucker ("Shopgirl") is in negotiations to direct "The Golden Compass," the feature film adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy for New Line Cinema says The Hollywood Reporter.
		Tucker put together a presentation including conceptual art, visual effects demos and a 20-page director's manifesto.
		Tucker also had extensive meetings with Pullman as well as Weitz who will work with Tucker to further develop the film's screenplay.
	www.darkhorizons.com /news05/050809e.php (164 words)

	Amazon.ca: Hilary and Jackie (Widescreen/Full Screen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Some of the controversy revolved around the other main character in Anand Tucker's gorgeous, involving movie--du Pré's sister, Hilary, whose book, A Genius in the Family (cowritten with brother Piers), dished some dirt on Jackie's sleeping with Hilary's husband.
		And director Tucker has that gift of being able to explain through the visual medium what is happening inside of his character's heads.
		Anand Tucker's first major feature film, Hilary and Jackie, is the real-life story of England's du PrÃ© sisters.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/6305447233 (1029 words)

	Anand Tucker in Talks to Direct The Golden Compass for New Line Cinema - Softpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		New Line Cinema is in negotiations with British director Anand Tucker (Shopgirl, Hilary and Jackie) to helm The Golden Compass, the feature film adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's popular "His Dark Materials" tri
		For Tucker, "the opportunity to turn Philip Pullman's extraordinary story into a film is literally a dream come true”.
		Anand Tucker in Talks to Direct The Golden Compass for New Line Cinema - USER OPINIONS
	news.softpedia.com /news/Anand-Tucker-in-Talks-to-Direct-The-Golden-Compass-for-New-Line-Cinema-6115.shtml (476 words)

	Shopguy - Sepia Mutiny
		Tweely narrated by Martin (not as Ray), directed with a dose of barbiturates by Anand Tucker, underscored with a plaintive cello and piano, this is among the most noneventful romantic triangles ever committed to celluloid.
		Tucker, the son of an Indian father and German mother who was born in Thailand, grew up in Hong Kong and has lived in London since he was 18.
		Tucker (his father changed his last name from Thakkar) has also been tapped to direct a big-budget adaptation of The Golden Compass, the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/002403.html (915 words)

	liningup.net :: View topic - Since I could not find the Dark Materials thread... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Well, it looks like the project may get back off the ground with the news that Anand Tucker is in talks to direct the first instalment, Northern Lights (or The Golden Compass, as it's known across the pond).
		Well, Tucker is the British director behind the really rather good Hilary and Jackie, way back in 1998, and the upcoming Shopgirl with the intriguing pairing of Steve Martin and Claire Danes, which is due out here on December 9.
		According to the press release by the studio, New Line, Tucker beat more than fifty interested filmmakers to get to this stage (he's still in talks), but the studio were impressed by his pitch, which included conceptual art, special effects demos and a 20-page director's manifesto.
	liningup.net /mb/viewtopic.php?t=7657 (1950 words)

	Hilary and Jackie . Newcity Chicago . 01-25-99
		Tucker says that of all the "lots of filmmaker-y, wanky ideas" he and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce threw at one another, the revisiting of motives through Jackie's eyes was the only one that worked.
		Beyond harnessing the mercurial Watson to an equally mercurial character, Tucker also shows deftness in telling the story through investing objects with metaphorical weight.
		One heart-wrenching scene shows the young Jackie clambering up a flight of concrete steps, the reluctant burden of her cello case both an emblem of what she's forcing herself to do, to follow her beloved sister's talents, but also like a little coffin - almost exactly her size.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/h/hilaryandjackie1.html (814 words)

	New Line's 'Compass' finds Tucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Anand Tucker is in negotiations to direct "The Golden Compass," the feature film adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy for New Line Cinema.
		Chris Weitz, who adapted the book, was slated to direct but withdrew in December, and the search for his replacement encompassed more than 50 filmmakers.
		The studio went with Tucker in part because the helmer put together a presentation that included conceptual art, visual effects demos and a 20-page director's manifesto.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/crafts/directors/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001014453 (189 words)

	MCN: Shopgirl
		Director Anand Tucker's first shot has a keen inexorability, the widescreen frame floating into a close-up of Clare Danes' extravagant features-full nose, glistening eyes, lipsticked lips-butch as all get-out in some shots, unaccountably vulnerable in others.
		Tucker announces: this whirlpool we are pulled toward will take others down, too.
		Under L.A. streetlights as Mirabelle drives crosstown behind bookish glasses, her eyes are smashingly green; her tears when she impulsively goes off her meds because she feels happy are wrenching; and Tucker and Suschitzky apportion more than thirty sequences of camera-caress upon Mirabelle/Danes' calves and bare feet.
	www.moviecitynews.com /reviews/shopgirl_pride.html (229 words)

	Cinema Confidential News: 08/11/05 - Anand Tucker to helm first "His Dark Materials" movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		POSTED ON New Line Cinema is in negotiations with British director Anand Tucker (Shopgirl, Hilary and Jackie) to helm The Golden Compass, the feature film adaptation of the first installment of author Philip Pullman’s popular His Dark Materials trilogy, it was announced today by Toby Emmerich, New Line’s president of production.
		His Dark Materials is being produced by Deborah Forte of Scholastic Media, the publisher of the His Dark Materials books.
		Tucker, whose latest film Shopgirl stars Steve Martin and Claire Danes and is scheduled for an Oct. 21 release, is a two-time BAFTA nominee and the winner of British Independent Film Award for Best Director for his 1998 film Hilary and Jackie.
	www.cinecon.com /news.php3?d=050811&n=2 (903 words)

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