Sasidhar (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} psasidhar) wrote,@ 2008-05-14 21:53:00 |
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Two coincidences!!
reprise had me curious. It could be that it is set in Oslo, or it could be that it's a movie about two authors, or it could be that I can not name more than a few movies from the Nordic region (could you?) I can not pin point how I took notice, but I started reading about it and ended up with this artcle in NYT.
And Mishima mentioned in the article caught my attention next.
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“One day he mentioned that Paul Schrader’s ‘Mishima’ was one of his favorite films,” Mr. Trier said. “And then we started talking about Godard, and we sort of became instant best friends.”
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Wait, Mishima? Google, Oh he is an author, Search Netflix, Ah, it's available on Netflix, add to the queue, move on - standard operating procedure.
A few hours later when I was sitting at the cafe, idling and checking my mail, a little reminder from LACMA found its way into my inbox - they are organizing a tribute to Leonard Schrader and showing "Mishima: A life in four chapters" this Friday. What are the odds of that happening?! Very less, if you live in LA, when it comes to movies. :)
I am, of course, looking forward to Mishima this Friday and reprise opening next week in LA.
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There is a moment in "I'm going Home" - one of the 5 Manoel De Oliviera's films I saw during the tribute that ran at the Billy Wilder's theatre by the UCLA Film Archive - where the lead character having been hit by a rather later life tragedy is trying to reconstruct his life in Paris. He tries to go on with his routine life, dines at a cafe daily, windowshops through Parisian streets after the lunch. Anything to keep his mind off.
And one day he walks past a street side art gallery, and immediately walks back to the window. His gaze and that of camera lingers on one particular painting, for quite a while.
I loved the painting, particularly when I saw it for the first time on the BIG screen, a close-up shot. I didn't know that it was a famous painting, I didn't know that it sells more posters and postcards than any other painting in UK. I wanted to remember the words written at the bottom of the painting - Jack Vettriano, so that I could look it up later.
I, of course, forgot those words until today when I saw the same painting in one of the LJ user's icons in backpackers LJ community.
I was thrilled at the coincidence.
The painting is - "The Singing Butler" by Jack Vettriano.
reprise had me curious. It could be that it is set in Oslo, or it could be that it's a movie about two authors, or it could be that I can not name more than a few movies from the Nordic region (could you?) I can not pin point how I took notice, but I started reading about it and ended up with this artcle in NYT.
And Mishima mentioned in the article caught my attention next.
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“One day he mentioned that Paul Schrader’s ‘Mishima’ was one of his favorite films,” Mr. Trier said. “And then we started talking about Godard, and we sort of became instant best friends.”
===
Wait, Mishima? Google, Oh he is an author, Search Netflix, Ah, it's available on Netflix, add to the queue, move on - standard operating procedure.
A few hours later when I was sitting at the cafe, idling and checking my mail, a little reminder from LACMA found its way into my inbox - they are organizing a tribute to Leonard Schrader and showing "Mishima: A life in four chapters" this Friday. What are the odds of that happening?! Very less, if you live in LA, when it comes to movies. :)
I am, of course, looking forward to Mishima this Friday and reprise opening next week in LA.
===
There is a moment in "I'm going Home" - one of the 5 Manoel De Oliviera's films I saw during the tribute that ran at the Billy Wilder's theatre by the UCLA Film Archive - where the lead character having been hit by a rather later life tragedy is trying to reconstruct his life in Paris. He tries to go on with his routine life, dines at a cafe daily, windowshops through Parisian streets after the lunch. Anything to keep his mind off.
And one day he walks past a street side art gallery, and immediately walks back to the window. His gaze and that of camera lingers on one particular painting, for quite a while.
I loved the painting, particularly when I saw it for the first time on the BIG screen, a close-up shot. I didn't know that it was a famous painting, I didn't know that it sells more posters and postcards than any other painting in UK. I wanted to remember the words written at the bottom of the painting - Jack Vettriano, so that I could look it up later.
I, of course, forgot those words until today when I saw the same painting in one of the LJ user's icons in backpackers LJ community.
I was thrilled at the coincidence.
The painting is - "The Singing Butler" by Jack Vettriano.
