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A different Sunday Concert, but different may mean to many of you, a day of discovery.
The full live set video was premiered on the evening before the annual Piano Day worldwide celebrations (March 29th of this year). The motivation to make the recording of the live performances which became the release ‘Live from Studio S2’ came from the invitation from the Berlinale Film Festival.
Hania says: “I decided to rearrange some of my favorite songs, which I have been performing live for years. Recorded live and captured in the iconic Studio S2, one of the recording studios of Polish Radio in Warsaw. The hall is fully covered with light wood, which reminds me of other Radio Studios all around the world – like Funkhaus in Berlin for example. There is a kind of intimacy when playing the little piano in this huge and also very high venue.” — @Hania Rani
I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.
TODAY´S MOVIE
This time we are going to watch the very entertaining ADVENTURE IN MANHATTAN (1936), an funny odd ball crime comedy starring the wonderful Jean Arthur and the future western star Joel McCrea.
With his knowledge of psychology and criminal behavior, reporter George Melville (Joel McCrea) is able to accurately anticipate specific crimes, incurring the jealousy of his fellow journalists. After meeting actress Claire Peyton (Jean Arthur), George grows suspicious of Blackton Gregory (Reginald Owen), the producer of her new play. Realizing that Blackton is actually a presumed-dead thief named Belaire, George stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.
TODAY´S MOVIE
This time we are going back to B&W. We are going to watch THE BOOGIE MAN WILL GET YOU (1942), an odd ball horror comedy movie with two masters of the genre, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.
A young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar.
Famed guitarrist Joe Pass together with the great Ms. Ella Fitzgerald, recorded live in Hanover in 1975.
SETLIST00:50 Laura 04:25 Wave (Vou te contar) 09:50 My Funny Valentine 14:05 You Stepped Out Of A Dream 18:57 You Turned The Tables On Me 23:33 Darn That Dream 27:19 Ella and Joe 27:33 You Turned The Tables On Me 31:50 Cry Me A River 37:34 Nature Boy 39:48 Nature Boy (2nd) 41:32 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life 47:40 Avalon 51:53 Stormy Weather 57:09 One Note Samba 01:03:20 The One I Love (Belongs To Somebody Else) 01:07:20 How High The Moon
I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.
TODAY´S MOVIE
This time we are going back to B&W. We are going to watch SHOCK (1946), a thriller that cemented Vincent Price´s career as a thriller and horror movie star.
A psychiatrist (Vincent Price) and a nurse (Lynn Bari) treat a veteran’s (Frank Latimore) wife who has seen them kill the psychiatrist’s wife.
Affichage lumineux devant le bâtiment 2m2c Montreux Music & Convention Center. Logo du jazz festival de Montreux issu de l'ecriture de Jean Tinguely etde son affiche pour le Jazz festival de Montreux 1982 dont Giovanni Rivaen en fait une affichepour le Jazz festival 2016 en y incrustant une synthèse de toutes les affiches depuis le 1er festival, soit 50 affiches pour les 50ans du festival.
Tom MIsch and the band performing live at the Montreux Jazz Festival BC (Before Covid!).
I believe that at times like the present, where the pandemic related pains haunt us, there may be nothing better to do on a Friday evening than making a bit of popcorn and watching an old movie.
It can be in black and white or color, although, I love black and white and mono sound movies. They bring your brain down to a level of simplicity in terms of “processing power”, that is hard to beat.
For a start, the monochrome picture is asking a lot less to decipher from your brain. A full blast color 7 channel surround movie will exacerbate your brain functions so as to deal with all that complex, multi-layered information. A B&W mono sound movie just floats in, and relaxes you, while still being entertaining. On top of that, the stories are from a reality that is not our own in this day and age, so as we watch, it will feel a lot more like one of those stories mom or dad used to read to us before we went to bed.
The end result, is utter satisfaction, relaxation, and the discovery that these stories turn out to have a lot more in common with our lives that we expected, albeit far from the technological wizardry, and imbued in certain innocence that seems so distant from of our contemporary daily lives.
So, I hope you enjoy these popcorn Fridays.
TODAY´S MOVIE
This time I am deviating from my promise of B&W. We are going to watch MY MAN GODFREY (1936), a true comedy classic, in its colorized version. For purists, this is blasphemy, but it also may give it a chance with those who do not watch movies in monochrome, to fall in love with the genre.
By Roger Ebert: “My Man Godfrey,” one of the treasures of 1930s screwball comedy, doesn’t merely use Lombard and Powell, it loves them. She plays Irene, a petulant kid who wants what she wants when she wants it. His Godfrey employs an attentive posture and a deep, precise voice that bespeaks an exact measurement of the situation he finds himself in. These two actors, who were briefly married (1931-33) before the film was made in 1936, embody personal style in a way that is (to use a cliché that I mean sincerely) effortlessly magical. Consider Powell, best known for the “Thin Man” movies. How can such reserve suggest such depths of feeling? How can understatement and a cool, dry delivery embody such passion? You can never, ever catch him trying to capture effects. They come to him. And Lombard in this film has a dreamy, ditzy breathlessness that shows her sweetly yearning after this man who fascinated her even when she thought he really was a bum.
WHY POPCORN FRIDAYS
IGNACIO ALPERIN: THE ART OF THINKING OUT LOUD / EL ARTE DE PENSAR EN VOZ ALTA 