Scattered Update
Sep. 10th, 2011 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stdesjardinsThe best film I've seen at TIFF so far is Le Havre, Aki Kaurismäki's latest film, about a child who escapes an immigration raid in France and is taken in by an elderly shoe-shiner. The second-best was Marjane Satrapi's Chicken With Plums. What both share is a delightfully quirky approach to even the simplest scenes—Kaurismäki is a master of deadpan humor, and Satrapi's film breaks new ground in blending animation with live action—combined with tremendous warmth towards their characters.
Perhaps the oddest thing I've seen so far is a Japanese couple, dressed in traditional Bulgarian outfits, singing a plea (in Bulgarian) for the return of King Simeon II, who was deposed in 1946.
You may remember the Keegan Theatre saga, in which I asked for either an apology or a refund of the remainder of my season ticket subscription, and they promised me a refund. It finally came last week, and I donated the money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, to help fight hate speech.
Two more books uploaded to Project Gutenberg, 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by Mór Jókai and Mortmain, a collection of stories by Arthur Train. And I prepared one project, The Man With the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (who wrote Phantom of the Opera, which appears to be some sort of science fiction or fantasy—I haven't examined it carefully, but it contains a character who claims to be hundreds of years old, whether truthfully or not I'm uncertain.
Brothers of the Spear, a series I read only a couple of issues of as a child, is being reprinted in hardcover next year. I remember it as having beautiful art and better than average stories; it's nice to live in an age where so much obscure work is coming back into print.
Perhaps the oddest thing I've seen so far is a Japanese couple, dressed in traditional Bulgarian outfits, singing a plea (in Bulgarian) for the return of King Simeon II, who was deposed in 1946.
You may remember the Keegan Theatre saga, in which I asked for either an apology or a refund of the remainder of my season ticket subscription, and they promised me a refund. It finally came last week, and I donated the money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, to help fight hate speech.
Two more books uploaded to Project Gutenberg, 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by Mór Jókai and Mortmain, a collection of stories by Arthur Train. And I prepared one project, The Man With the Black Feather by Gaston Leroux (who wrote Phantom of the Opera, which appears to be some sort of science fiction or fantasy—I haven't examined it carefully, but it contains a character who claims to be hundreds of years old, whether truthfully or not I'm uncertain.
Brothers of the Spear, a series I read only a couple of issues of as a child, is being reprinted in hardcover next year. I remember it as having beautiful art and better than average stories; it's nice to live in an age where so much obscure work is coming back into print.
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Date: 2011-09-10 03:01 pm (UTC)This was in a movie?
Yay Keegan refund and donation to help fight hate speech.
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Date: 2011-09-11 04:35 am (UTC)While I'm glad not to have my money go to an institution that uses it to foment hatred, i would much rather that they simply stop fomenting hatred. What I really want, what I asked for, is for them simply to say that they screwed up and wouldn't do it again. Removing any personal complicity is a poor second-best.
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Date: 2011-09-11 06:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-11 12:24 pm (UTC)