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11:22 pm: Goodbye Nicol Williamson...my Little John

Actor Nicol Williamson died at the age of 73.
RIP. You belonged to that greatest line of shakespearian actors whose memory will never fade away. I will always remember you as Hamlet and as Little John in "Robin and Marian". Tonight I'm thinking of you.

 


















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07:33 pm: just wondering...
How can a young woman like me enjoying a family show so much? Ok folks, I must say: I'm officially MERLIN ADDICTED. What a wonrderful show. I had liked the first three seasons, but I LOVED the fourth, which has just finished. Superb acting by almost all the actors, especially Colin Morgan (can you believe he was in Turin - just near my University - last year? and he looked like a student: great), Anthony Heads and Bradley James. More than decent writing and script; wonderful set; the episode had different directors but they were all quite good (and some excellent). Original and refreshing take on a popular legend. The story of Camelot and Excalibur has already been told in the wonderful movie "Excalibur" (ah, Nicholas Clay...the ONE Lancelot ever. Sorry Santiago, that's what I feel and you can't change it) and doesn't need to be retold in a traditional way: that's why "Camelot" failed. But "Merlin" is refreshing and original and it re-drafts a myth in an excellent way,pointing to the relationship between Arthur and Merlin. Love it.
And just to stay tuned on historical shows (well, ok "Merlin" is not historical, not exactly). this clip just reminded me how much I enjoyed "The Tudors" :)  have a look...I'm watching "Games of Thrones" at the moment: I'm at the second episode. I will let you know my feelings.




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01:02 pm: Ah, I was looking for some scene from The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari and I ended up watching this...




I adore silent movies of ten's. They are such suggestive and fascinating. The scene of the birth of the Creature must have been so scary for people watching it. I think no modern movie can give us back the energy and passion of these first movies: directors and creators were just realizing the infinite potential of cinema and you can feel how thrilling that was for them.  

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09:48 am:

Ok, I'm slowly regaining my usual rythm of life and resuming this sometimes neglected blog ;) I'm working at the University of Genevra (post-doc fellowship) until July 2012, so I had to change a lot of my old habits...but I'm having a very good time! and my French is wonderfully improving. I've found to be a fan of French. Such a wonderful language! I will be back with more posts. I was missing this blog.

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07:17 pm: little song...

A little, wonderful song and a video which is a perfect example of italian "popular" style. You really see our streets, our buses, our suburbs and their people. I love it. 

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12:07 pm: THE BORGIAS
At least something interesting...If they don't push too much the sex and blood button and they stay faithful to History (which is already full of enough sex, violence and blood I think) it's gonna be a GREAT tv-movie :)


ps: have a look at the PRICELESS comments below the youtube video, they're all about "Assassin's creed" stuff, how FUNNY when people think to know History and they just show their ignorance LOL LOL LOL
ok I'm an evil arrogant brat sometimes 
 



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10:35 pm: ah yes...THE SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Thanks to cujlover , who pointed it out first, I found out that someone (*LOVES* them) has finally posted on youtube the complete docu-fiction THE SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER THE GREAT", a 1981 UK mini-series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343302/)  wich I watched and liked some year ago but I couldn't find any dvd/vhs/torrent of it.
There are four episodes and, while the historical details of the background are given by James Mason as narrator, the story of Alexandros is told by the people who loved him and were loved by him (Olympias, Ptolemy, Hephaestion, Philip, Cleitus, Aristotle, Bagoas) and by the defeated king Darius: they are gathered together  - dead and alive - for a banquet and they discuss Alexandros' life from their different points of view. The show is very enjoyable and the historical details are always correct. Nicolas Clay (who was a wonderful Lancelot in "Excalibur") is a great Alexandros and he looks very much like Richard Burton who, in my opinion, despite that awful movie, was perfect as Alexandros. Ian Charleson is a great actor (I remember him as Fortinbras in "Hamlet" with Derek Jacobi) but his Hephaestion doesn't persuade me enough, can't explain why, it's jus a feeling, even if the relationship with Alexandros is correctly portrayed, no modern vision of it. Jane Lapotaire (Mary Tudor in "Lady Jane") is a passionate and strong Olympias, Julian Glover a powerful Philip and Gabriel Byrne is very wise as Ptolemy.
 I especially like the first episode, with Alexandros' childhood and his years as prince of Macedonia (very historically detailed his rough quarrel with Philip ---> here you can see the first part of the first episode, following the links you'll find the entire episode in six parts)

( it was about time... )

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10:10 am: my fav movie-love scenes ever...
Ok, since I'm bored to death because I have been writing "professional" mails (in french...how exhausting) all day, now it's time to have some funny on lj LOL

so...I'm making a list of my fav love scenes in movies :D 
You'll not find "conventional"  (aka sex) love scenes here: with love scene I mean a scene expressing love without words or without explicit gestures...love through silence, through music, through looks, through little gestures...And of course, no difference between f/m, m/m, f/f :)
any other suggestion?

( seven love scenes... )

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11:52 am: A wonderful movie: "La finestra di fronte"
Yesterday I saw the excellent movie "La finestra di fronte" by Ozpetek, I SO loved it....romantic but not pathetic, sad but not over-dramatic, so touching, with deep feelings, wonderful music and perfect use of the soundtrack (like in almost all movies by Ozpetek), excellent actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno is so beautiful and good, one of the best italian actresses, if not THE best. The main characters are all italian actors (left out Serra Ylmaz), even Raoul Bova - which usually is not so good - did a great job here. I had already enjoyed another movie by the same director, "Saturno contro" (I will post something about it soon), and this one is equally beautiful. I hadn't seen it yet and yesterday evening I watched it with my boyfriend and I half-cried almost all the time.
It's about a wife and a husband, with two children, who one day found an old man in the street (we are in Rome) who has lost his memory: they took him to their home and the woman slowly unveils the secret behind him: he's an hebrew who, in 1943, saved many people from Nazis in the ghetto of Rome but he didn't manage to save the man he loved, who died in a nazi lager. Here's my favorite scene of the movie: the woman (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) dances with the old ill man (Massimo Girotti) in the same room where, many years before, he danced with another woman, while he watched his true love behind her shoulder...the mix between present and past is so beautifully done here, the music is wonderful and all the scene is so touching, because we guess (even if, at that point, we still don't know the entire story of the old man) that the old man's love is gone and he's remembering days which will never come back. Watch it, is very worth of!

From "La finestra di fronte"...enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGBMNWaMdY


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09:52 am: Blackmore's night: Catherine Howard's song

I found this beautiful video on youtube: it's about Catherine Howard's destiny, but what I like most it's the music choice..."The Balkmore's night" are one of my favourite music groups ever: I bought their first CD long ago, and then the others: the text is "Catherine Howard's song", I wonder if it's an original text or taken from some XVIth poem...anyway, here's the video: the scenes are from "The Tudors season IV", which I streamed some month ago and now I'm watching it in its italian version on  TV: good show, beautifully done, but the italian dubbing is horrible. I'lll buy the english DVD because I want the collection of the four seasons, but the italian version really is crappy. They changed many sentences and they did too many  mistakes with the translation; now, I wonder if the translators didn't read the original screenplay before translating... how can you possibly translate "the dowager duchess" with "la duchessa DI DOWAGER" (the duchess OF DOWAGER)??? do you take me for a fool? and there were other mistakes in the translation...terrible.  And the mispronunciation of english names...bah.
Here's the text of the song by "Blackmore's night":

Catherine Howard's song

Oh, to my dearest ruler and lord

http://www.youtube.com/user/parisad?feature=mhum#p/f/51/65BV-LTpoiU

( and fb is really crappy... )

Tags: movies and bubbling