I ADORE THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL

THE TIGER AND THE SNOW

I had never seen this movie. But it was on the fantastic TV channel, The Sundance Channel, today. With subtitles. I especially liked Tom Waits singing You Can Never Hold Back Spring and the poetry of the movie. Some great art - this movie.

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The Opening Scene of the movie
Tom Waits sings You Can Never Hold Back Spring from his Orphans CD.
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Tom Waits was great in the Terry Gilliam movie
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

After creating LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, the Oscar-winning comedy set during the Holocaust, actor/filmmaker Roberto Benigni takes on a no-less-audacious project: a romantic comedy set during the opening days of the Iraq War. Benigni plays a madcap poetry professor hopelessly infatuated with an elegant writer (Nicoletta Braschi). When he learns his beloved is wounded and lying near death in a Baghdad hospital, our hero impersonates a doctor and is soon dodging bullets and bombshells to win her heart. "Winsome, charming and irresistibly romantic" -Salon.

The Sundance Channel schedule - airing The Tiger and The Snow

Tuesday, October 5 11:15 AM

Tuesday, October 5 4:20 PM

Monday, October 11 11:00 AM

Monday, October 11 2:50 PM

Tuesday, October 12 6:25 AM

Thursday, October 21 10:35 AM

Thursday, October 21 3:30 PM

Sunday, October 31 1:30 PM

Cast and Crew

Director	Roberto Benigni
Screenwriter	Roberto Benigni
Screenwriter	Vincenzo Cerami
Cinematographer	Fabio Cianchetti
Editor	Massimo Fiocchi
Composer	Nicola Piovani
Actor	Roberto Benigni
Actor	Nicoletta Braschi
Actor	Tom Waits

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The Tiger and The Snow
The trailer
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I THINK OF YOU - JOHANNA

My friend lost her father this week. And this post includes a video I made for her and this time of sadness for her. Light a candel for your dad or someone else's dad

From Kahlil Gibran's

On Beauty

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Read it in full
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John Gorka sings I Think of You
Especially for Johanna. Johanna has helped me get to know Heath Ledger and his work. She introduced me to Heath's Conor of the Roar Series.

In this video is a clip of Johanna's favorite movie of Heath's - Candy and also a bit of my favorite, The Four Feathers, as well as a clip of the Sweet Bright episode of Roar (or so it is titled on my dvd - I think it should be titled Sweet Bridget) and pictures of Brokeback Mountain, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Heath's final film) and The Patriot.

Youtube has made this video a "featured video" under two categories as of today: ilovemylife and Heath Ledger.

Johanna has become my friend. June 1st was an important day to her and this video is a tribute to her and this important day when her father passed away.

This is best watched at youtube, where you can select to watch it in the size of your screen. (Lower right corner of yt video - the four cornered arrows....just click on that.)

Used in this video: Candy, Roar, The Four Feathers and also pictures from The Patriot, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and Brokeback Mountain.

I encourage supporting John Gorka who graciously said "yes" when I asked him if I could use his music on my youtube videos. johngorka.com
His music is also available at itunes and amazon.

Lyrics

I look to see the wildflowers blooming and wonder why they seem so plain
Springtime rides all the brown hills over, young birds sing in the silver rain
I think of you as the night rolls by,
you’re on my mind the whole night through

Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you
And when my world has turned to sunlight,
and the dust clouds stand in the summer sky
I’ll number all the climbing roses, watch to see the milkweed fly
I think of you as the night rolls by,
you’re on my mind the whole night through

Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you
And when I hear the soft wind moaning,
like an angel’s voice from a far-off shore
My days slip by like light snow falling,
or dry brown leaves blown by my door
I think of you as the night rolls by,
you’re on my mind the whole night through
Far away in a lonesome city, all the time you’re gone, I think of you

Previous posts about my dad's death

Though-my-dad-died-he-lives-on

My-last-good-by-to-my-dad-and-my-red-sled

Because-of-my-dad-i-know-i-have-known-what-loves-feel-like
This post has a note to and from the nurse who helped me speak to my father the day that he died.

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Dance
Thank you, Tina, for making this public again.
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How I Got Over
Mahalia Jackson
The video quality needs to be overlooked - but this is great, nevermind the flaws in the video.
Uploaded by elfeco

My dad loved this kind of music. And so do I. We had Mahalia's LP and I loved playing it on the record player when I was young. I bought Mahalia's music on cd and it still affects me, today. I was singing along with this song in the car yesterday...one great car ride on a beautiful ride over the Newport-Pell Bridge over Narragansett Bay here in Rhode Island.

A click on the post title will take you Kahlil Gibran's Friendship

BEAUTY NEEDS NO TRANSLATION

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I'll Remember You
Uploaded by elziebean100
This is the 13th of 13 parts uploaded by elziebean100 of the movie Fried Green Tomatoes.
The story is based on the novel by Fannie Flagg.

Sometimes a song stands out in a movie. And I'll Remember You does - written by Bob Dylan, performed by Grayson Hugh in the rolling credits of Fried Green Tomatoes. At 2:29 of the youtube video, the song begins.

Lyrics

I'll remember you
When I've forgotten all the rest,
You to me were true,
You to me were the best.
When there is no more,
You cut to the core
Quicker than anyone I knew.
When I'm all alone
In the great unknown,
I'll remember you.

I'll remember you
At the end of the trail,
I had so much left to do,
I had so little time to fail.
There's some people that
You don't forget,
Even though you've only seen'm
One time or two.
When the roses fade
And I'm in the shade,
I'll remember you.

Didn't I, didn't I try to love you?
Didn't I, didn't I try to care?
Didn't I sleep, didn't I weep beside you
With the rain blowing in your hair?

I'll remember you
When the wind blows through the piney wood.
It was you who came right through,
It was you who understood.
Though I'd never say
That I done it the way
That you'd have liked me to.
In the end,
My dear sweet friend,
I'll remember you.

"Friend, don't be a perfectionist. Perfectionism is a curse and a strain. For you tremble lest you miss the bulls-eye. You are perfect if you let be. Friend don't be afraid of mistakes. Mistakes are not sins. Mistakes are ways of doing something different, perhaps creatively new. Friend don't be sorry for your mistakes. be glad for them. You had the courage to give something of yourself. It takes years to be centered; it takes more years to understand and be NOW."
Frederick Perls

The video below is presented with graphics and music by David Kettlewell, a harper and musicologist who uses film and other media to educate the whole person: "musica humana" - the human harmony where each of us is a strand in the weaving together of the rich whole tapestry of life. Working from his red timber farmhouse by Lake Leaf-Sea, where the farming land meets the forest in northern Sweden, using the harp, film, and the Macintosh to help people feel good about themselves.

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Be
Uploaded by davidtheharper

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Black Sea Don Cossacks: Odnozvutjno gremit
from their concert at the Old Church of Ytterlännäs, Northern Sweden, July 2008; conductor Slavil Dimitrov. This Russian folk song is much loved in Sweden with its Swedish text "Jag har hört om en stad".
Uploaded by davidtheharper
Hear David speak

Silent Night

Amazing Grace in Cherokee

Music is a spiritual experience

MISSING RAFAEL NADAL ON THE TENNIS COURT - PAVARAZZI GIVES RAFA NO VACATION FROM CAMERA

NO REST FOR RAFA
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Young boy delighted to unexpectedly spot Rafael Nadal coming out of the supermarket, while Rafa was on vacation September 2008

One of my favorite pictures of Rafa
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Sorry it's too big, but I don't have the heart to cut it down.
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Well, except for this
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Rafael Nadal
Music: You Are My Man
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