Artful film pairings: Kokuho + 10Dance
This double film review looks at and compares two recently released Japanese movies; Kokuho +10Dance and the artful pairing of their two main characters. And they also share a similarity in being film adaptations from material from literary sources which are centred on the relationship between an artistic pair of proponents of two very different performing art forms; traditional Japanese Kabuki theatre and international ballroom dancing.
My travel sketches from Europe May/June 2024
I managed to generate a few more pencil sketches during our last 6-week trip to Europe in May-June 2024. These sketches were done in my travel sketchbook which I carried with me. Although not an extensive collection, it served as an additional journaling medium for our travels, supplementing the photographs and Facebook posts that were the staple.
Small Things Like These – a movie review
We were drawn to this Irish movie, Small Things Like These, mainly to see Cillian Murphy in his first movie role after his impressive Oscar-winning portrayal of J Robert Oppenheimer. After watching the first 15 minutes, it was clear this was a very different kind of movie; a slow burn, ponderous exploration of a man’s emotional struggle to come to terms with his discovery of disturbing secrets kept by the local convent as he reconciles them with the awkward truths about his own upbringing.
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