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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-11-17 07:45 pm

I was under the impression these things don't go bad

We fought the health insurance and we didn't lose! "We won this round!" [personal profile] spatch amended apotropaically, and then did a Dr. Claw impression. Have some links.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world. "When I was growing up, we didn't have art on the walls but there would be these calendars with gods and gurus everywhere; I've made Tate Britain a bit like a contemporary temple, but not so much to do with anything religious. "

2. This pair of posts on queer history seemed to go together. Not unrelatedly, Francis Lee has once again been interviewed about Ammonite (2020) in a way that makes me desperately want the film to stream where I can see it.

3. Being a person who cares about Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance and Paula Vogel's Indecent, I am going to do my best to catch Alastair White and Clara Kanter's The Drowning Shore, premiering this week as part of Compass Presents' Oracles in Sepia. I imagine others on my friendlist may feel the same. "In Scots and Yiddish." That makes me hope A.C. Jacobs would have approved.

4. I have no experience of Harry Styles beyond his acting in Dunkirk (2017) and therefore no opinions about his music, but I feel strongly that "because I think it looks cool" is an aesthetic to be encouraged.

5. A nice reminder that respite does not equal complacency.

The Leonids are peaking tonight. I hope it will be clear enough to appreciate them.
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S & G

[personal profile] lauradi7dw 2020-11-18 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
We went all the way to Marblehead or somewhere to see it as part of the Jewish Film Festival that year. A good chunk of the audience was people brought in vans from a Jewish retirement home, but I was not the only person who had noticed Ioan Gruffudd in his small Titanic role. He memorized all his Yiddish lines without learning any other Yiddish, apparently, but Welsh was his first language.

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Re: S & G

[personal profile] lauradi7dw 2020-11-18 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, I really liked him in Hornblower. Not enough rope on the ship, though.