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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“ONE OF New York’s primary sources of pride, for at least a century, has been its superabundance of small book, music, and art shops, which have done so much to keep the city’s cultural life close to the street. These little palaces of culture have…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineGrab the phone and communicate this exciting piece of news to your friends: The first ever Fragrance & Film Festival, organized by Vogue and The Fragrance Foundation, is happening before our eyes. On April 25 the deadline for submissions from auteurs w…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In many films, the plot turns on Bette Davis’s desirability - which means her plausibility. It’s a problem all actresses face: some escape by playing celestial or androgynous figures; others collude and play the coquette. But Davis was alone in lettin…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineOur new Series takes you into the realm of the forbidden and the bohemian, the realm of the “green fairy that lives in the absinthe” and all the terrors and fascinations she produces in art and perfumery. Perfume Shrine has already tentatively shown a …
Read the rest here: New Series: Absinthe, Anise and Wormwoodfrom Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfume
If you have HBO, and you’re not watching the miniseries John Adams with the fabulous Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, you should be.If you don’t…make sure to rent it when it hits video.
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingEroll Morris (documentarian): I keep thinking about what makes Grizzly Man very modern—a strange hall of mirrors. Treadwell, like yourself, is a filmmaker. He is trying to capture his version of reality as a set of images. Yeah, maybe that’s the hu…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“MIMI WEDDELL, model, actress and blithe spirit, is finally about to have her grand moment, as the subject of the documentary “Hats Off,” which opens Friday. As she is 93 and has been modeling on and off for decades, this is not an overnight succes…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“George Cukor, who directed Crawford in The Women (1939), understood that the “camera saw a side of her that no flesh-and-blood lover ever saw.” It’s a truism that every film star knows how to make love to the camera; in Crawford’s case, it was…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Wild Blue Yonder, which is getting its U.S. premiere this week at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, is Celia’s journey to come to terms with her late father, legendary documentarian David Maysles, who, along with his brother, Al…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJack Nicholson, 2002, Martin Schoeller
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineWhere I live spring has already come and it’s raining sunray upon sunray on us to the delight of the inner child that wants to come out and play. So in an anthem to spring, these are the things I anticipate to enjoy in these next few months, arbitral…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I mean this as a compliment: I can see why drag queens love Kathleen Turner. Unlike the interchangeable blandettes who decorate today’s movies, Turner has texture. She has grit and class, she’s sexy and regal, she’s no-nonsense and divalicious. She’s …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWishful Thinking At the Oscars”The problem is that awards which do not segregate on the basis of gender tend to overlook women altogether. There is no Nobel prize for women’s literature: women go head to head with men. And they’ve won 10 times in 107 y…
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from Roxana @ Illuminated PerfumeDuring a holiday party on a chilly Topanga night in December, we heard a fantastic story. Steven told us about a car trip he took to visit Santa Claus with his two young daughters. The youngest had asked “Daddy, does Santa really exist?” Steven answere…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineValentine’s Day might seem rather corny to you (and to me): after all, isn’t the point in celebrating love every day? But the pleasure-factor of watching a romantic film hand in hand with your loved one, silently hunched onto each other in a dark theater or at the abode of one’s home and enjoying an accompanying fragrance shouldn’t be shunned due to such esthete concepts as mentioned above. It
Read the rest here: Valentine’s preparation: movie and a fragranceFrom Belle to Bug
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“These ideas were drawn simultaneously from [Isabella] Rossellini’s own brain and the world of nature, for a series of gross, funny and beautiful-looking little films. Shown here first, they’ll make their international debut at the Berlin Film Festival…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingLilith is the story of a war veteran Vincent (Warren Beatty, looking handsome like a gentrified Elvis) who returns home and, for want of some meaningful work, takes a position as a trainee for occupational therapy at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Ah, You Can Be Had.”"Now, though, Grant found a novel way to treat women in film: he clearly related to his heroine as a sexually attractive woman—and also as a witty, intelligent, and idiosyncratic one. Often he conveyed this by adopting the seemin…
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from Roxana @ Illuminated Perfume“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backw…
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from Roxana @ Illuminated PerfumeA large group compromised of friends and family ventured to LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, yesterday. We went specifically to see the Dali exhibit. Salvador Dali is a rather controversial artist, who was prolific and visionary. He was also on…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIt seems to me that the impulse to atone is a religious one, and yet you are a self-declared atheist. Yes, I am an atheist, and probably Briony is, too. Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and th…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In the novels Pullman dramatises this shift from innocence to experience through the device of daemons. Everyone has a daemon or animal spirit: when you are young, the daemon keeps changing shape; as you get older your daemon settles into a constant f…
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from Mary @ Tea, Sympathy, and Perfumeby waverlyfilms video
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingTurtles Can Fly (2004) is a bleak tale about the devastation that is the inevitable consequence of war: dislocation, rape, orphanage, mutilation and trauma. It focuses on a charismatic bully-leader of a band of orphans in a Kurdish refugee camp and a y…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingMarlene Dietrich to Noel Coward, April 3, 1952″My gilded cage life goes on quite hopelessly… Anybody else but I would be on an analyst’s couch by now, faded and frustrated, but every time I want to rebel I tell myself that all this [her r…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Jordan doesn’t shy away from suggesting that [Jodie] Foster’s transformation from nice lady to assault victim to reborn dark angel of vengeance is liberating, enjoyable, even addictive. Further vindication comes with the tantalising possibility that, …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBearing Witness”With unblinking, often sickening deliberation, Sauper methodically connects the dots that begin as seemingly unrelated interviews with Russian and Ukrainian cargo pilots, teenage Tanzanian prostitutes, orphaned children living on the st…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFunny Face”“Funny Face” marked one of the last moments when the Gershwin catalog could be performed without nostalgia; for the moment, at least, this music was still a vital part of American culture rather than something to be scraped from the bott…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAmerican Experience“We hold these experiences to be self-evident, that all is equal, that the creation endows us with certain inalienable rights, that among these are: the freedom of body, the pursuit of joy, and the expansion of consciousness and th…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingCrazy Delicious”Though much of his schtick screams “dork alert” (it should be noted that he is a major abbreviator — competition becomes “competish,” appropriate: “approps”) there is something very un-awk-weird about Samberg. And while he’s ever humbl…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingDer Himmel Of The MindIn Wim Wenders masterpiece, Der Himmel Uber Berlin, the angels love to consort in the public library. Where else? It’s a wondrous, poetic movie, not just cinematographic, but also in the way it takes a very human problem - the fea…
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