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Post by tzarine on Jun 28, 2017 17:25:31 GMT 2
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 1, 2017 15:19:51 GMT 2
either tonight or tomorrow, I'll go watch a documentary about Ella Maillart at the local cinema.
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Post by tzarine on Jul 21, 2017 19:15:27 GMT 2
wild strawberries - bergman
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 3, 2017 21:39:02 GMT 2
On Saturday, we took in an exhibition of some of Edouard Vallet's paintings. It was very interesting.
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Post by tzarine on Sept 13, 2017 14:24:41 GMT 2
lord of the flies is as harrowing as ever
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 20, 2017 21:23:58 GMT 2
I think our Tzarine would have enjoyed the event I attended tonight.
It was a theatrical reading of a history-making TV show from the 70's.
The show in question was "Apostrophes", a literary talk show on French television and that particular evening, they had invited Charles Bukowski, as well as French writers and literary characters. The former had brought his own booze and was rather disruptive. in hindsight, it is hilarious and created mhhh... much ado about nothing much. if you'll pardon the pun.
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Post by rikita on Sept 28, 2017 14:09:04 GMT 2
going to the opening of an exhibition tonight, as it is in the museum my dad works at. didn't ask him what type of exhibition it is, but just googled, so i suppose it is this one:
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 7, 2017 0:15:50 GMT 2
went to see the scythians exhibition at the British Museum today. I wanted to see more!
some of the labelling was slightly unsatisfactory, though.
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Post by tzarine on Oct 7, 2017 3:53:21 GMT 2
Went to the Yayoi Kusama in matsumoto Her new tokyo musee is totally booked
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Post by tzarine on Oct 8, 2017 18:32:02 GMT 2
the hokusai museum is lovely also saw utamaro earlier @ japan society
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Post by tzarine on Oct 14, 2017 23:14:54 GMT 2
watched in our corner of the world an amazing anime about a girl's coming of age in hiroshima before & after the bomb
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Post by sophie on Oct 15, 2017 3:48:53 GMT 2
Tzarine, reminds me of Hiroshima mon Amour, one of my favourite old movies
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Post by tzarine on Oct 18, 2017 2:22:42 GMT 2
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Post by tzarine on Oct 27, 2017 17:29:10 GMT 2
saw the rodin @ the met
ass$%^&*()_+_ stop the selfies in front of m rodin's work i did not pay to see you love fest! please curate yourselves away
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Post by auntieannie on Oct 28, 2017 10:52:52 GMT 2
Went to see a beautiful documentary yesterday, with my mom, centering on the (local)author's mother dying of cancer and his sister pregnant with her second child. title is "Les grandes traversées". it was handled with a lot of tact and love and compassion.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 5, 2017 17:06:38 GMT 2
red the matthew bourne red shoes w tzar great fun loved his male swan lake
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Post by tzarine on Nov 18, 2017 4:22:06 GMT 2
saw the yayoi kusama in chelsea refused to wait 2 hours for infinity room then saw the babar paintings - such nostalgia for me! Pom. Celeste, Arthur!
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 18, 2017 22:08:40 GMT 2
oooh, babar! I just love the whole family!
tomorrow night, I'm going to attend a local theatre production. I have no clue what it's all about.
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Post by rikita on Nov 19, 2017 2:49:01 GMT 2
my aunt booked theatre tickets for the wizard of oz for us, will be a's first visit to the theatre. she speaks a lot about theatre right now, so this will be quite exciting for her (the piece is actually advertised for six and older, but a friend of my aunt told her it should be okay for an almost five year old, too ...)
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Post by auntieannie on Nov 19, 2017 22:56:34 GMT 2
oh, the theatre was excellent, really high above the usual for an amateur troupe.
They played "L'Atelier" by Jean-Claude Grumberg, which takes place in a Paris clothes-maker's workshop between 1945 and 1952 and is about the fate of Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis. (those who hid or moved to other areas, those who were brought to camps and came back...or didn't and the effect those situations had immediately after the war)
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Post by tzarine on Nov 20, 2017 3:19:36 GMT 2
went to a matinee made me cry
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 22, 2017 3:46:55 GMT 2
A few weeks ago the new modern art gallery opened. I missed the opening gala as I was at work, but last week Mr_S and I went and bought a membership and took our first look around.
THey had a Picasso display that I liked - it was primarily sketches and prints and studies for some of his well known pieces. INteresting to see the progression from first idea to the final version. it got a thumbs up. I can't remember what else was there, right now (I'm very tired at the moment), but The whole space is really well done, I think - lots of windows on the south side, that look over the river, and very high ceilings, light and airy.
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Post by rikita on Nov 23, 2017 3:09:06 GMT 2
we let a. watch a bit of the wizard of oz movie, thinking that it is better she kind of knows the story in the theatre and can follow it more easily. unfortunately she found the movie scary (so we turned it off) and now she's not sure if she wants to go to the theatre, as it might be as scary.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 25, 2017 2:04:52 GMT 2
riki
the wizard of oz is scary!
a house drops on a witch flyng monkeys grab people the witch threatens dorothy w death
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Post by rikita on Nov 25, 2017 2:36:21 GMT 2
we bought a picture book version about it today, i think that will make it easier to get to know the story than watchin the movie - at least, so far i observed that she can deal with quite a few scary things in books and stories (she loves fairy tales, and some of them are quite brutal, for example), but not on screen ... well, i hope she won't get scared during the play though. i was told it is a litle bit scary in the beginning but then the rest is done very child friendly ... and i suppose once she knows the whole story then she knows it will end well ...
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Post by Netsuke on Nov 25, 2017 10:41:56 GMT 2
I never thought of The Wizard of Oz as being scary, but when you think about it a bit, there are some really scary scenes - you have the Wicked Witch of the West with her green face and 'orrible cackle, and all the monkeys and all those flying whatchamacallit and thingamabobs that to a child of tender years, could be quite frightening. And as a child, even an adult, the ramification of poppies and Dorothy falling asleep among them was lost. But of course, they were opium poppies.
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Post by tzarine on Nov 26, 2017 22:17:32 GMT 2
margaret hamilton made for a frightening nasty villain in both her persona
yes & the opium what the %^&*()_?
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 27, 2017 4:06:15 GMT 2
I went to the movie for my 9th birthday and it scared me! I loved it, but it scared me.
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Post by Voy on Nov 27, 2017 15:26:56 GMT 2
Margaret Hamilton was my doctor's grandmother !
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Post by Scrubb on Nov 27, 2017 18:48:46 GMT 2
That's cool, Voy! There was a film called "The Drylanders" about life on the prairies during the Great Depression that they showed us in elementary school, that she starred in, and EVERYONE just couldn't get over seeing the Wicked Witch of the West as a different character.
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