More French Film Festival

Drs Peter and Francoise Kirkpatrick are the founders of the festival. These film clips show the range of films, L'avion, about a child and a magical airplane, Bamako, about Mali, the World Bank & the IMF, and a documentary about Jacques Chirac using clips from public resource materials. The directors, Karl Zero and Michel Royer, are working on a film about George W. with a 2008 release. The Chirac film and the last film, "Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas," were our favorite films of the festival. We love seeing and sometimes speaking with the actors and directors that come for the festival. This year, it seemed that there were more of them than ever. It was long, difficult to sit on the "historic" seats for so many hours, but we can't wait for the next one.

French Film Festival

This past weekend we spent most of our time at the VCU French Film Festival
The festival is held at a historic, movie palace in walking distance from our house. While walking there, we say, "we are SO lucky to live in our neighborhood." Tri-colour banners are hung on the street, the local businesses promote French food, music, culture.
We saw 13 short films, a doc. and 8 feature films. Whew!

My Friend Slash

Our friend Slash Coleman sent us an e-mail to let us know that he's been selected to do his one person show in an off Broadway theatre. Woo Hoo, hooray! We're so happy for him that I had to share this news for anyone who might be in the vicinity and can go see him.
He'll be at the Teatro La Tea (Clemente Soto Velez Cutural Center) at 107 Suffolk St. on the lower east side, April 10 and April 22. You can get details at Slash's web site. Happy for you, Slash!!

Seeing Jem Cohen

Last week, I was able to attend a lecture by Jem Cohen at VCU. Mica said he was amazing and go see him, if possible. Possible, we did, and really enjoyed his presentation. I found this interview with him that related to the talk he gave at VCU. Both Chuck and I connected to his talking about his films as being collages and found his images to be so beautifully framed. Now to rent some of the films!

Pink tree, yellow daffies

Spring was here, briefly. It was 80F (26C) for a couple days. Our tree blossoms, magically, almost instantly. It was gorgeous. In the alley behind the house, there are daffodils in bloom. Today, it's cold, rainy, sleety, windy. I'm so glad I have these images to remind me of how absolutely breath taking our tree was yesterday.

more mosaics, NYC

I thought it was so excellent to see more mosaics in NYC. I thought the ones in the subway were beautiful, elegant, but these, on the building by Two Boots and the Pioneer Theatre were so exhuberant. I would like to do mosaics like these.

Subway station NYC

Waiting in the subway station by Lincoln Center...we saw these beautiful mosaics.