One photographer. one Jewelry designer. Music, art, chat, food and drink until dawn. Bring your friends and family, visit our show at my studio on July 25 at Markham, Ontario. I'll features the "Central Walk" collection while Carol will show her latest jewelry. Looking forward to see you there!
A hymn for the planet HOME is an ode to the planet's beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on an unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it. But HOME is more than a documentary with a message, it is a magnificent movie in its own right. Every breathtaking shot shows the Earth - our Earth - as we have never seen it before. Every image shows the Earth's treasures we are destroying and all the wonders we can still preserve. "From the sky, there's less need for explanations". Our vision becomes more immediate, intuitive and emotional. HOME has an impact on anyone who sees it. It awakens in us the awareness that is needed to change the way we see the world. (HOME embraces the major ecological issues that confront us and shows how everything on our planet is interconnected.)
Synopsis In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it is too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.
A stand-up comic, novelist, painter, academic, and film director, Takeshi Kitano once more tackles the conflict between art, capitalism and imagination, completing the surreal autobiographical trilogy that began with Takeshis and later Glory to the Filmmaker!, and traces the lifetime failure of an aspiring artist. Taking its title from Greek philosopher Zeno's famous paradox, Achilles and the Tortoise follows Machisu from his childhood days, pursuing his dream of becoming a famous painter. The middle-aged Machisu is played by Beat Takeshi, and his (quite successful) paintings are also by Kitano.
Directed by Stephen Daldry Cast: Kate Winslet Ralph Fiennes David Kross
Kate Winslet Won Oscar Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role and other 11 awards
THE READER opens in post-WWII Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. Written by The Weinstein Company.
Manufactured Landscapes, a feature documentary by Jennifer Baichwal
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is a feature length documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of ‘manufactured landscapes’ – quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s materials and debris, but in a way people describe as “stunning” or “beautiful,” and so raises all kinds of questions about ethics and aesthetics without trying to easily answer them.
The film follows Burtynsky to China as he travels the country photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. Sites such as the Three Gorges Dam, which is bigger by 50% than any other dam in the world and displaced over a million people, factory floors over a kilometre long, and the breathtaking scale of Shanghai’s urban renewal are subjects for his lens and our motion picture camera.
Shot in Super-16mm film, Manufactured Landscapes extends the narrative streams of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our profound impact on the planet and witness both the epicentres of industrial endeavour and the dumping grounds of its waste. What makes the photographs so powerful is his refusal in them to be didactic. We are all implicated here, they tell us: there are no easy answers. The film continues this approach of presenting complexity, without trying to reach simplistic judgements or reductive resolutions. In the process, it tries to shift our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it.
奧斯卡2009最佳外語片 Winner - Grand Prix de Ameriques: 32nd Montreal World Film Festival Winner - Mercedes Benz Audience Award: Best Feature, Palm Springs International FF Winner - Golden Rooster Award: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Masahiro Motoki) Winner - Hawaii International Film festival: Audience Award Winner - Hochi Film Awards: Best Film Winner - Nikkan Sports Film Award: Best Film, Best Director Winner - Kinema Junpo Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor (Masahiro Motoki)
Lisa Hannigan started her singing career at the age of 6 as the fairy on top of the Christmas tree in the school play. Although she still remembers three quarters of the words she is no longer convincing as a fairy. On the long car journeys down to west cork for summer holidays she sang the backing vocals to her mothers’ front seat Joni Mitchell and Nina Simone and to this day knows all of the words to Paul Simon's "Graceland" and the Queen back catalogue.
Dear you, Who's reading this letter? Where are you and what are you doing now?
For me who's 15 years old. There are seeds of worries I can't tell anyone. If it's a letter addressed to my future. Surely I can confide truly to myself.
Now, it seems that I'm about to be defeated and cry. For someone who's seemingly about to disappear. Whose words should I believe in? This one-and-only heart has been broken so many times. In the midst of this pain, I live the present.
Dear you, thank you I have something to tell the 15-year-old you. If you continue asking what and where you should be going. You'll be able to see the answer. The rough seas of youth may be tough. But row your boat of dreams on. Towards the shores of tomorrow. Now, please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear. During these times when you're seemingly about to disappear. Just believe in your own voice.
For me as an adult, there are sleepless nights when I'm hurt. But I'm living the bittersweet present. There's meaning to everything in life. So build your dreams without fear. Keep on believing. Seems like I'm about to be defeated and cry.
For someone who's seemingly about to disappear. Whose words should I believe in? Please don't be defeated and please don't shed a tear. During these times when you're seemingly about to disappear.
Just believe in your own voice. No matter era we're in. There's no running away from sorrow. So show your smile, and go on living the present. Go on living the present.
Dear you, Who's reading this letter I wish you happiness...
《最好的時光》是侯孝賢的作品,他巧妙地將女主角舒淇和男主角張震的一段不悔愛情,自20世紀初起跨越了將近100年,在台灣3個最具代表性的時代裡,一窺3種截然不同卻同樣感人的愛情觀。發生地點更自當年繁華極盛的大稻埕,穿越過基隆、台中、雲林、嘉義、台南和高雄,最後結束在現今的台北。侯孝賢在電影中並以清末民初時期的南管樂曲「共君結託」和「茶薇架」、文夏的「戀歌」和「星星知我心」,以及「RAIN AND TEARS」和「SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES」等多首歌曲,精準呈現出當時的愛情氛圍。使這120分鐘的電影,竟驚見了一段段動人的愛情和台灣100年的歷史擦身而過。《戀愛夢》、《自由夢》和《青春夢》於是就像是3顆奪目的寶石,牢牢嵌鑲在侯孝賢這部電影傑作上,閃耀非凡。