Sunday 23 June 2019

A 'French Sundae' with Jon Davies at The Cinema Museum : La haine (1995)

A 'French Sundae' at The Cinema Museum with Jon Davies : La haine (1995)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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23 June

Tweets in response to a 'French Sundae'
at The Cinema Museum with Jon Davies :
La haine (1995)










If, in the first act, you have hung a pistol on the wall, then, in the following one, it should be fired ~ Anton Chekhov


Jean-Paul Belmondo in À bout de souffle (1960)




Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Friday 21 June 2019

#AldeburghFestival2019 : The #UCFF portal-page (in progress)

#AldeburghFestival2019 [This posting is a place-holder]

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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20 June

#AldeburghFestival2019 [This posting is a place-holder]




Sunday 16 June ~ Britten and Bridge
The Britten Studio at 4.00






Sunday 16 June ~ Vox Luminis II
The Snape Maltings Concert Hall at 7.30

A report by Tweet on Vox Luminis II at #AldeburghFestival2019




Monday 17 June ~ Schubert 1828
The Snape Maltings Concert Hall at 7.30





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Tuesday 18 June ~ Il Quatuor Diotima
Aldeburgh Parish Church at 11.00




Tuesday 18 June ~ Britten and Blake
The Britten Studio at 4.00




Britten and Blake were both publicists, but Britten was the better at it, which is why he would not have looked for knottier or more distant texts of Blake's to set than these

Patience Agbabi's reading of her 'homework' was not only a tour de force that outclassed her 'teacher', but also, one likes to think, one whose extent and content were surprising to all hearing them





Tuesday 18 June ~ Vox Luminis III
Pre-concert Talk in The Britten-Pears Recital Room at 6.30 / Snape Maltings Concert Hall at 7.30





Wednesday 19 June ~ Alisa Weilerstein
Blythburgh Church at 7.30








Addenda :







Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Sunday 16 June 2019

A report by Tweet on Vox Luminis II at #AldeburghFestival2019

A report, by Tweet, on Vox Luminis II at Aldeburgh Festival 2019

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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17 June

A report, by Tweet, on Vox Luminis II at Aldeburgh Festival 2019
(a concert of Handel and Britten, both setting Dryden, given at Snape Maltings on Sunday 16 June 2019 at 7.30 p.m.)


Prelude :




Image by David-Samyn







Concluding comments :

As one has learnt to expect, sensitive and sincere performance from Vox Luminis, under the direction of the affable Lionel Meunier - one senses, even from the encore, that this ensemble does not perform repertoire in which it does not believe.


Postlude :






Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Saturday 15 June 2019

Looking for... Yoko Ono [initially, at The Heong Gallery ?*]

Looking for... Yoko Ono in Cambridge in summer - or found by her, where we are ?

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October) (Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)

15 June

Looking for... Yoko Ono in Cambridge in summer - or found by her, where we are ?




End-notes :

No, with @CRASSH, at Lady Mitchell Hall.




Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Saturday 1 June 2019

The #DorotheaTanning Tweets

Sunshine after rain : moving from Bonnard to Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern...

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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1 June

Sunshine after rain : moving from Bonnard to Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern...


Deirdre (1940) ~ Dorothea Tanning








Dorothea Tanning ~ [Title and date to come]






Some other Tweet :






Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)