“Your genius and your animus have always ben fully linked,” she said. “Your mind thrives on ill will toward others. So does your body, I think. Bad blood makes for long life. He was a rival in some sense, yes? He was physically strong perhaps. He had a large personality. Filthy rich this chap. Women […]
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Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto – 2 seconds / b minor / wave
posted by lisathatcher
The explorations in 2 seconds / b minor / wave by Miachel Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto are mini journeys into the concepts “pulse” “pitch” and “wave” and what each of these might mean to the other and to the receptive audience – the ideal audience – in the final accumulation of sounds presented. By making […]
Va Savoir – Jacques Rivette and the subtle pleasures of the Nouvelle Vague
posted by lisathatcher
Va savoir begins in total blackness. A spotlight pierces the dark. A leg steps into the beam, and then full illumination reveals the enigmatic Camille (Jeanne Balibar), an actress performing in Paris as a member of a traveling theater group. She fled the city a few years earlier to escape from her philosopher boyfriend Pierre (Jacques Bonnaffé). He, […]
Announcing changes to the Lisa Thatcher Blog
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Good morning my lovely readers. This is a post to let you know there will be some changes to the blog from today forward. I want to thank everyone for your encouraging readership. In terms of daily hit statistics and people signing up, the blog has been a great success in my little world. Many […]
The Booker Prize Long List
posted by lisathatcher
Well – it’s that time again. Reading up on the long list to make our choices about who should and who shouldnt hit the short list for the Man Booker Prize. The longlisted books were selected from a total of 145 titles, 11 of which were called in by the judges. The 2012 longlist includes […]
Ghedalia Tazartes – 1996 – Une Eclipse Totale du Soleil. Taste the strange.
posted by lisathatcher
Ghédalia Tazartès is a French musician born in 1947. Although, initially, his work is rooted in the legacy Ladino (his family is from the Jewish Community of Turkey), Ghédalia Tazartès is an unclassifiable artist, primarily instinctive and free, and has been described as being in the making of the music rather than in the theory […]
Seven Samurai – Akira Kurosawa starts a trend.
posted by lisathatcher
What a great pleasure it was to watch Seven Samurai! Despite the timeless beauty of Seven Samurai, it is when the film is seen in context that the power of its resonance through the ages is best recognised. This is a film made in 1954 at a time when Japan was reeling from the aftershocks of American […]
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa asks which is heaven and which is hell?
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High and Low is an adaptation of an American novel entitled Kings Ransom written by Ed McBain in 1959. The film is divided largely into three parts, using the crime thriller genre to give us a large dose of Kurosawa’s trade mark social criticism. In the balance between money and incorruptible life, everyone must choose and this is the question Kurosawa […]
Books that make you undatable
posted by lisathatcher
The H Post ran an article today called “9 Books that make you undatable” that set my mind to wondering. Is there a book that, if seen on a potential lovers night stand, would have me running for the hills? I mean books are very important to me. Are they are worthy barometer for those I want […]
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