Silverlake Blvd.

Barbara Pym

“He is an excellent preacher," said Harriet stoutly, if irrelevantly, "and he seems to have the coconuts very well organized.” 

 

Focus

Broken Embraces

As always, Almadóvar has terrific music:

A treat from The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

Movie log

 

 

Also catching up on movies during the break: Soviet-era cartoons, You Can't Take it With You, Nine, a double feature of Singing in the Rain and American in Paris, Point Blank, Sherlock Holmes, A Single Man, Of Time and the City, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, ....

 

Messiah @ Disney

I neglected to mention hearing Les Violons du Roy & La Chapelle de Québec chorus do Handel’s Messiah. It really is a baroque opera of the whole of Christianity: prophecy, nativity, passion, ressurection, all the way up to last judgement. 

David Daniels warbled the high-high-high up parts, Joshua Hopkins thundered the bass-baratone parts, and Rosemary Joshua dramatized parts in between. I could listen to Handel year round. 

The supertitle people provided some choice typos, the most appropriate being “and the tongue of the dub shall sing.”