A CHRISTMAS TALE
UN CONTE DE NOËL
France 2008
DIR Arnaud Desplechin
CAST Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Emmanuelle Devos,Chiara Mastroianni, Emile Berling, Hippolyte Girardot, Laurent Capelluto

Christmas 2011

Beppi: Initially sweet, it soon becomes spicy, then serves up coal dust and smoke, like a potable Dickens novel. A salty tang balances the sweetness on the gently oaky, dry finish. Laphroaig is Prince Charles’s favourite. The future king knows his dram – a good sign for the monarchy. 95/100. 

2009 Church & State Coyote Bowl Syrah this year’s Red Wine of the Year at the Wine Access Canadian Wine Awards! In a handy 3-pak from my favourite daughter with the 2009 Pinot Noir frm the Brentwood Bay vineyard and the 2010 Gewurtztraminer from the Okanagan Black Sage Bench Gravelbourg vineyard.

Diego Rivera, Maternidad (Motherhood), 1954. Collection of Michael Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa.

Largest Canadian Collection of Mexican Modernism
On Display Now at Vancouver Art Gallery
VANCOUVER- As a university student, Michael Audain travelled to Mexico to view the art of Mexican modernist masters Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and José Clemente Orozco. He was inspired by the vibrancy and powerful social message of their art, and his passion for these artists remained with him. Many years later, the Audains began collecting their work and, today, own the largest collection of Mexican modernist art known in Canada . The Audains’ entire Mexican modernist collection – 18 paintings in all – is currently on display at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Shore, Forest and Beyond: Art from the Audain Collection, providing an unparalleled opportunity for visitors to experience this influential school of art. “This is the largest and most important Mexican modernist collection in Canada ,” said Grant Arnold , the Gallery’s Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, “These paintings are fine examples of the art of each of these artists, and have never been publicly displayed by the Audains before.”

Museo Nacional del Prado: The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day by Bruegel the Elder

12 December 2011 -25 March 2012
The Museo del Prado is presenting to the public for the first time The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, acquired by the museum in late 2010. The painting, one of the most important acquisitions in the Museo del Prado history, is temporarily on display in Room D in the Jerónimos Building and its installation allows the public to realize what a delicate and complex restoration process

Museo Nacional del Prado: Special display: The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day by Bruegel the Elder

HANNAH AND HER SISTERS
United States 1986
DIR Woody Allen
SCR Woody Allen
CAST Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine, Barbara Hershey,Max von Sydow

CERTIFIED COPY
COPIE CONFORME
France, Iran, Italy, 2010

DIR Abbas Kiarostami
SCR Abbas Kiarostami
CAST Juliette Binoche, William Shimell

From the notes: What is the difference between a copy and the original, between reality and its imitation? This is the question in all its elusive permutations that the gorgeous Juliette Binoche who manages an antique shop and Art Historian William Shimell (England's distinguished operatic baritone) argue about as they drive through the sun-drenched splendour of Tuscany. In his first film made outside of his native Iran, Kiarostami has shifted from his neorealist style to the brain teasing European Modernism of Antonioni and Resnais. We may never know the true relationship of Binoche and Shimell, but the trip is glorious, and it won the best actress award at Cannes for her luminous performance.

And back on Monday Sept 12...
CACHÉ

France, Austria, Germany, Italy, United States 2005
DIR Michael Haneke
SCR Michael Haneke
CAST Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche





And again on Aug 14.
Algerian protest reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

Curt Lang, Granville Street, 1972

DECEMBER 1, 2011, 7:30 PM
At the World’s Edge—
Curt Lang’s Vancouver: 1937–1998

READING AND SLIDE SHOW WITH AUTHOR CLAUDIA CORNWALL, PRESENTATION HOUSE
Claudia will read from a few selected chapters including: Wild and Memorable Poets, Naked in the VAG, Smoking Gideon, and Dreaming in Black and White. She will also show slides from Curt’s 1972 Portfolio. Foreword by David Beers. Introduction by Greg Lang.