kinda hot

yay!

"it's britney bitch.."

so...am drunk..what's new!

sushi at home. with the girls.

fernanda montenegro

possibly the greatest actress working today

brazilian. natch.



most people outside of brazil know her from central station but little else of her career before and after. for those who were mesmerized, as was i, please check out this




house of sand/casa de areia (2005)

you won't regret it.

The great Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and her gifted daughter Fernanda Torres give superb performances in House of Sand, Andrucha Waddington's extraordinarily beautiful and moving family saga. Spanning nearly 60 years in the lives of three generations of women in the desolate, northern Brazilian desert town of Maranh�o, Waddington's film is a sweeping yet intimate chronicle of life in a harsh, unforgiving landscape that's forever encroaching on the characters, both literally and emotionally. Directed by Waddington with a striking mixture of lyricism and grit, House of Sand is a richly compelling drama anchored by two remarkable actresses, alternating in the roles of the main characters as they age over the years. (reel.com)

gesualdo

what better way

to spend one's sunday morning revisiting old obsessions.
one of my most enduring fixations has been for the late renaissance composer of madrigals, carlo gesualdo. his music is like nothing ever heard of at the time, with the use of chromatic harmonies that weren't to be heard of again till centuries later. and then there is the brutal murder of his wife and lover, caught in flagrante delicto. i always thought it would make a heck of film. someone out there clearly agrees. bertolucci has signed up for it. fingers crossed. it could be a real cracker. or it could be an unmitigated disaster.

i spy through my little eye...

shot during the magic hour

...the 20 minutes between when the sun sets and the night falls...




"this girl didn't know where she was going or what she was going to do
she didn't have no money on her
maybe she'd meet up with a character
i was hoping things would work out for her
she was a good friend of mine"