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British Museum Announces Major Aquisition of Complete Set of Picasso's Vollard Suite

LONDON.- The British Museum announces the major acquisition of a complete set of Picasso’s Vollard Suite, which will go on display at the Museum in the summer of 2012. The suite comprises 100 etchings produced by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 and is the most important cycle of etchings produced by arguably the 20th century’s most important artist. This will be the only complete Vollard Suite held by a public museum in the UK and only a handful of museums in the world are fortunate to hold a set. It is believed that this will be the first time a complete Vollard Suite has been shown in Britain in the past 50 years.

POETRY
SHI
South Korea 2010
DIR Lee Chang-dong
SCR Lee Chang-dong
CAST Yoon Jeong-hee, Lee Da-wit

From the notes: Chang-dong, director of the brilliant Secret Sunshine, continues his exploration of Korea's socio-political fault-lines in this award winning film (Best Screenplay, Cannes). Bringing the amazing Junghee out of retirement, Poetry is the story of the elderly Yang Miha who lives in a dormitory town outside of Seoul. Looking after her troubled teen grandson Wook and working part-time as a care-giver for a disabled man. Miha discovers poetry and a new way of seeing in a poetry writing class. A visually stunning film, Poetry explores the surprising growth in Miha's identity as she must find a way to negotiate balancing her new-found art with her grandson's implication in a classmate's suicide.

Liam Lacy in the Globe Fri Sept 30, 2011

Actually, film-not-seen. Instead.... Wally and the Slugs and some guy who's name I think is Ted at the Port Theatre... 
http://www.dougandtheslugs.ca/

Gabor Maté — Colloquium SeriesAdler School of Professional Psychology

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Georgia OKeefe Watercolor Star No VI, 1917

SANTA FE.- Evening Star No. VI, 1917, a gift of The Burnett Foundation. The watercolor is one of dozens of iconic OKeeffe paintings that will be exhibited over the next year in Italy, Germany and Finland as part of a traveling retrospective. 

AP Photo/The Georgia OKeeffe Museum. ArtDaily,org

Fred Herzog — Old Man Main, 1959

Past Tense • liquidnight: Fred Herzog Old Man Main, 1959 ...

Fred Herzog Old Man Main, 1959 From Fred Herzog: Photographs

EYES WIDE OPEN
EINAYM PKUHOT
Israel, Germany, France 2009
DIR Haim Tabakman
CAST Zohar Strauss, Ran Danker, Tinkerbell, Tzahi Grad, Isaac Sharry, Avi Grainik

From the notes: Provocative albeit understated about a married Orthodox Jewish father of four who falls for a 22 year old male student. Aaron, a butcher who lives a very conservative life in the ultra-Orthodox part of Jerusalem, takes on Ezri, a handsome Yeshiva scholar, as an apprentice. Aaron, who feels an emptiness in his life, battles with but is drawn to the young man's attractive lustfulness in a world of extreme intolerance. A film which challenges a man's relationship with his family, community and God. Eyes generated considerable controversy but still won Best Actor Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Charles Foran – Mordecai, Dear Maw

“If your old age tastes of ashes,” Mordecai Richler wrote in August, 1976, “if you are wretched, lonely, worried about your health, money, I am sorry. But now that you are 70, can't you at last grasp that you have brought most of this on yourself.”

“Will your life,” he continued, “such a ball of rage, inchoate rage, go forever unexamined?” He then proceeded to examine that life with no less acuity, or plain speech.
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Vancouver doctor treats patients with illegal plant

We started this segment with Vancouver doctor Gabor Mate speaking with one of his patients. Gabor Mate has treated addicts in the downtown eastside of Vancouver for years. But he hasn't had great success. His frustration led him to look beyond traditional medicine for answers ... All the way to the Peruvian jungle and its promise of better treatments.
Traditional Peruvian healers use an ancient plant, the Ayahuasca in a ceremony that involves drinking a concoction made from the plant. It can be a tough cure, the potion can cause hallucinations and often vomiting. But Dr. Mate says he's seen results.
Tonight on the The Nature of Things, Gabor Mate's medical quest will be featured in a documentary called Jungle Prescription. Gabor Mate joined us from our Vancouver studio.

The Sidewalk Ballet: Eastside Mural Projects

The Sidewalk Ballet: Eastside Mural Projects: A quartet of four community-based murals sponsored by Britannia Community Services Society and coordinated by Richard Tetrault has been pain...

The Jungle Prescription — CBC, Nov 10, 8:00pm

The Jungle Prescription - Film Trailer from The Ayahuasca Project on Vimeo.

JEANNE DIELMAN
23, QUAI DU COMMERCE
1080 BRUXELLES
Belgium, France
1975 201 Min(!)
DIR Chantal Akerman
CAST Delphine Seyrig, Jan Decorte

OF GODS AND MEN
DES HOMMES ET DES DIEUX
France 2010

DIR Xavier Beauvois
SCR Xavier Beauvois, Etienne Comar
CAST Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin,Jacques Herlin, Sabrina Ouazani, Goran Kostić, Philippe Laudenbach, Xavier Maly, Jean-Marie Frin, Loïc Pichon

"A beautiful, sombre and rigorously intelligent film" -- O.S. Scott. Based on the true story of eight Cistercian Trappist monks whose lives of contemplation and of humble service to their impoverished Moslem community in the Atlas Mountains of Algeria are disrupted by the country's ruthless and protracted civil war of the 1990s. The government offers military protection, which is unthinkable to these men of peace. Instead they are left with the choice of returning to France and abandoning their duty or of remaining at the risk of their lives. The beauty of the environment, the soundtrack of chanted prayers and muezzin calls, and the touching relationships that these men have formed — all contribute to make this a singularly memorable film. Winner of the Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes and French  César Award for Best Film.

Marvellous, now famous  "last supper" scene is very fine but a story hung on the Catholic Church in the colonized world gives me all kinds of problems.

Nina Rajinsky, Vancouver Art Gallery, January 1980

The Hidden World of Vivian Maier

Uploaded to YouTube  by kitchensisters on 1 Feb 2011

Back in March, we blogged about a recently discovered photographer, Vivian Maier. We had the chance to interview John Maloof, the man who brought her photos to the world. Since then, two years after her death, she has been recognized as one of the most fascinating street photographers of the 20th century as more and more people around the world have fallen in love with her work.

Today, the Chicago Cultural Center is opening her first solo exhibition. In her honor, we bring you this slide show of some of her stunning images, along with her story told by John Maloof and renowned photographer, Mary Ellen Mark.

Produced by Lacy Roberts for The Kitchen Sisters and The Hidden World of Girls