What a great movie. And one of the featured singers, Claudia Lennear, was there to talk about the movie, her career, and to sing. And oh can she sing. She sang with Ike and Tina Turner and on all of the Rolling Stones Albums. The song "Brown Sugar" was written about here. If you have not seen the movie - then do. It was the Oscar as Best Documentary.
The show was a total sell out. We had not gotten tickets in advance as it is so close to Aviva and Mathew's due date. So we got their an hour early and the two of us were the only ones in line to get in. Two people came up that had tickets that were returned so we got them - what luck.
The entire Music Film is much bigger and better advertised this year and quite a few of the shows are sold out. It has extended to Willits and to the Anderson Valley along with Mendocino and Point Arena where we go Sunday (if no grandbaby yet)
Friday, May 30, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Dinner - Pearl and Jeff's House
Tonight we went to dinner at Jeff and Pearl's house. We go to exercise class with Pearl and see both Pearl and Jeff at all of the Monday night movies. We had a wonderful dinner and lots of great conversations.
After the other guests left and we were about to get into the car, we went back in to look at lots of the stuff Pearl and Jeff have collected. Jeff is an engineer and helped build embassy around the world. What a collection they have from each of the counties they have visited. But we also loved to old phonographs and wanted to hear how both sounded.
After the other guests left and we were about to get into the car, we went back in to look at lots of the stuff Pearl and Jeff have collected. Jeff is an engineer and helped build embassy around the world. What a collection they have from each of the counties they have visited. But we also loved to old phonographs and wanted to hear how both sounded.
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
My Night at Maud's
A 1960's French film - a little less than two hours but seemed like nay more. The description sounded more exciting than the movie. It was nominated as best foreign film when it came out. As someone pointed out - it was a true Film Club type movie for showing and discussion. Here's the description provided.......
It is the third film in Director Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales. In the "brilliantly accomplished" centerpiece of the series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife but when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged.
Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (21 March 1920– 11 January 2010) was the last of the post-World War II, French New Wave directors to become established and he gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001.
A breakout hit in the United States, My Night at Maud's was one of the most influential and talked-about films of the decade and earned Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. The black and white feature is not rated at a runtime of 117 min. In French with English subtitles.
It is the third film in Director Rohmer's series of Six Moral Tales. In the "brilliantly accomplished" centerpiece of the series, Jean-Louis Trintignant plays one of the great conflicted figures of sixties cinema. A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, he lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he vows to make her his wife but when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of the bold, brunette divorcée Maud, his rigid ethical standards are challenged.
Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer (21 March 1920– 11 January 2010) was the last of the post-World War II, French New Wave directors to become established and he gained international acclaim around 1969 when his film My Night at Maud's was nominated at the Academy Awards. He won the San Sebastián International Film Festival with Claire's Knee in 1971 and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for The Green Ray in 1986. Rohmer went on to receive the Venice Film Festival's Career Golden Lion in 2001.
A breakout hit in the United States, My Night at Maud's was one of the most influential and talked-about films of the decade and earned Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Film. The black and white feature is not rated at a runtime of 117 min. In French with English subtitles.
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