décembre 2009
6 billets
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Adonis, 80th B-day
Adonis is known for his poems… Here he comes from under the ruins in the climate of new words, offering his poems to grieving winds unpolished but bewitching like brass.http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/462/three_poems_5/ … and for his ideas. I admire him a lot and encourage you to read a short article my husband had written...
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20 films from the 2000's
Here is my alphabetical film list. I wanted it to be broad and hope I will have succeded in this task. 4, Ilya Khrzhanovsky 28 days later, Danny Boyle Be With Me, Eric Khoo Caché, Michael Haneke Container, Lukas Moodysson Den brysomme mannen, Jens Lien Iklimler, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Innocence, Lucile Hadzihalilovic Kairo, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Le Scaphandre et le Papillon, Julian Schnabel...
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Jiří Trnka, already 40 years
Some months ago I had to pick 5 favourite films from 1959 for an application on Facebook. I wanted to add Sen noci svatojánské, by Trnka, but this title was not available. For all of you who have never taken a glimpse of this masterpiece, here is an excerpt…
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Juloratoriet, Göran Tunström
I was almost expecting a Christmas carol when I started this book and was quite surprised about this epical biography dealing with a family from Värmland. The drama, deceitful hopes and introspections were very interesting. I would recommend Juloratoriet to readers willing to experience a kind of Bergmanian book :)
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,...
To finish this book was almost a challenge. It was amazingly… bad! I had never thought Poe could write something so lousy, with: a boring main character a poor drama no structure no ending! Poe was really not meant to write about adventurous stories but about spooky ones. Avoid this one if you are one of Poe’s true admirers.
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À vau-l’eau, Joris-Karl Huysmans
This pessimistic short story was well written but quite meaningless. I smiled a lot but will forget Jean Folantin’s adventures very soon.