Researchers at the UK’s National Media Museum Discover First Color Motion Picture, 1902

Tinhorn Creek Pinot Noir 2009

Beppi says "standout". 
14.7% alcohol(!) 
Incendiary. 
20 bucks.

From Illustrated Vancouver — Jack Shadbolt and Paul Goranson

Jack Shadbolt (left) and Paul Goranson (right) working in 1940 on a mural for the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver. Photograph from the Vancouver Art Gallery library, photographer unknown. The theatre opened in 1941 (early May, I believe) in the midst of WWII, and in December of that same year Paul Goranson joined the Royal Canadian Air Force.

If you recall, Goranson worked with E.J. Hugues and Orville Fisher in the late 1930s after they graduated from the Vancouver School of Art. All three would become war artists: “In 1939 Hughes enlisted in the RCA as a gunner. Appointed a war artist in 1940, he was posted to Petawawa, Ontario, and in 1942, to England.” Fellow muralist Orville Fisher had joined the Royal Canadian Engineers in August of 1940. In fact, Jack Shadbolt also followed them into combat; “he enlisted in the army as a signalman on 28 October 1942.” More at: Illustrated Vancouver, Jack Shadbolt (left) and Paul Goranson (right)...

BASQUIAT
United States 1996
DIR Julian Schnabel
CAST Jeffrey Wright, Dennis Hopper, Michael Wincott, Gary Oldman, Claire Forlani, David Bowie, Benicio Del Toro,Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Parker Posey
Basquiat - Movie info: cast, reviews, trailer on mubi.com

BROTHERS
BRØDRE
Denmark, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden 2004
DIR Susanne Bier
SCR Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen
CAST Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas

CARLOS
France, Germany 2010
DIR Olivier Assayas
SCR Olivier Assayas, Dan Franck
CAST Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten

Beppi sez:

Quails Gate Pinot Noir 2010 Sez Beppi:
SCORE: 91 PRICE: $24.99 in B.C.A B.C. leader in pinot noir, Quails’ Gate does a splendid job here. It’s medium-bodied, with sweet, jammy berries in the foreground, joined by tobacco, cinnamon, dark chocolate, a hint of charred wood and good snugness from fine-grained tannins. Try it with grilled salmon or pork tenderloin. ($25.99 in Sask., soon to be released for $22.99 in Man., various prices in Alta.)


Cono Sur Pinot Noir. Impossible: an econo pinot noir.Some of the recent plantings have proven especially favourable to the new darlings of Chilean viticulture, pinot noir and syrah, which have joined bread-and-butter varieties merlot, cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay. Carménère, the country’s signature red, with its fruity-spicy profile, has found its own groove, shedding its herbaceous backbite with the move to well-drained slopes free of excessive winter rain or haphazard flood irrigation. Didn't survive a follow up tasting weeks later, though. Useful lesson in identifying tannins. Woke up feeling like I'd had a tea bag on my tongue all night.  

Montebuena Rioja 2009

Beppi sez:: Medium-full-bodied and earthy, this big Spanish bargain offers notes of cigar tobacco, forest floor and light, fine-grained tannins. It is a good red for herb-crusted leg of lamb. $15.99 in B.C.

TRISTRAM SHANDY: A COCK AND BULL STORY
United Kingdom 2005

DIR Michael Winterbottom
CAST Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

THE NAKED CITY

UNITED STATES 1948

DIR Jules Dassin
CAST Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

Largest Selection of Edward Hopper Works at Madrid Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

TheMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza and the Réunion des musées nationaux de France are presenting the exhibition hopper, to be shown first in Madrid then in Paris. It bring together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by the US artist ever to be shown in Europe, with loans from major museums and institutions including the MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, in addition to various private collections and with a particularly generous loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. The latter is sending 14 works from the Bequest of Josephine N. hopper, the artist’s wife. The exhibition has also benefited from the collaboration of the Terra Foundation for American Art.

http://www.irc.umbc.edu/2005/10/01/cone-sisters/

INTHE NAME OF THE FATHER

UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND 1993

DIR Jim Sheridan
CAST Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Emma Thompson

JULES AND JIM
JULES ET JIM
France 1962
DIR François Truffaut
SCR Jean Gruault, François Truffaut, Henri-Pierre Roché
CAST Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre

Birthday present collected. Home made pizza paired cleverly with Quail's Gate Dry Reisling and Calona Artists Series Pinot Noir at Meghan's cool digs and a spring evening walk in the blooms and blossoms of Victoria to the Fernwood neighbourhood and the exquisite Belfry Theatre and a fine production of God of Carnage. And the walk home through Gary Oak neighbourhoods but not before a round of prosecco at ear drum splitting Stage Wine Bar (in comes the cast of course ever so urbane).

Lights on for Lights Out! at the Vancouver Art Gallery

From The Vancouver Sun: Lights on for Lights Out! at the Vancouver Art Gallery

Lights Out! Canadian Painting from the 1960s

Vancouver Art Gallery, To April 29.  More details at vanartgallery.bc.ca

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Art Gallery has raided its extensive permanent collection for an exhibition that focuses exclusively on painting from the 1960s. Called Lights Out!, the exhibition of 88 paintings looks at a medium that was undergoing big changes in the decade. When it began, painting was still considered the premier form of art making. By the end of the ’60s, not only were artists starting to work in new media such as video and photography, they were also exploring entirely new approaches such as performance and conceptual art.

MELANCHOLIA
Denmark, Sweden, France 
Germany, Italy 2011
DIR Lars von Trier
SCR Lars von Trier
CAST Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt

Approaching the 2 hour mark, I'm starting to root for the rogue planet.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
United States 1958
DIR Richard Brooks
SCR Tennessee Williams, Richard Brooks, James Poe
CAST Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES
Italy, Japan, United States 2003
DIR Jim Jarmusch
SCR Jim Jarmusch
CAST Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Alex Descas, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina, RZA, Bill Murray, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi, Joseph Rigano,Vinny Vella, Vinny Vella Jr., Renée French, Isaach de Bankolé,Jack White, Meg White, GZA, William Rice, Taylor Mead

Taurino Riserva Salice Salentino Rosso

Beppi scores it 91. 

"Sexy stuff, this succulent, medium-bodied blend of negroamaro with malvasia nera shows sweet cherry, with marzipan, flowers and licorice, even a hint of funky barnyard air. Consider it poor man’s Barolo. Braised red meats would pair nicely. $18.95 in B.C., $15.40 in Que." 

Eadweard J. Muybridge 182nd Birthday Google Doodle

GOODBYE SOLO
United States 2008
DIR Ramin Bahrani
SCR Bahareh Azimi, Ramin Bahrani
CAST Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo