Month: February 2013

“Water Marks”–What Lies Beneath the Surface

Written by diana on February 25, 2013. Posted in Art, Monterey Peninsula College, MPC Print Club, Printmaking, Unhealed Wound. 9 Comments

“Water Marks”, the current exhibition at Pacific Grove Art Center (PGAC), features approximately 50 Monterey Bay area printmakers who have created etchings, woodcuts, screenprints, monotypes and mixed media prints focusing on the theme of water surrounding our beautiful Monterey peninsula. The Monterey Peninsula College (MPC) Printmakers is an association of artists who are passionate about printmaking in all its variety of forms and techniques. This exhibit is analogous to a “watermark” in that the artwork requires more than a casual viewing. Printmaking can be...

“Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

Written by diana on February 18, 2013. Posted in movie reviews, Unhealed Wound. 4 Comments

This year’s Cannes Film Festival winner is a film like no other on the dissolution and disintegration of life and the toll it throws at love. As a five-time Academy Award nominee, “Amour“, directed by the Austrian Michael Haneke, is a spellbinding masterpiece. The superb Jean-Louis Trintignant of “A Man and a Woman” fame and the delicate Emanuelle Riva who stunned audiences in “Hiroshima, Mon Amour” are the capstone of this film. Playing two retired octogenarian music teachers (Georges and Anne), these two masterful actors portray a deep and time-tested...

“House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Written by diana on February 11, 2013. Posted in Television reviews, Unhealed Wound. 6 Comments

Why wait a week to watch another episode when an entire buffet is available? A lot has been written recently about “binge-watching” the practice of sitting on the couch or in bed to gorge on an entire season or a majority of episodes of a television series in one batch. The bulimic viewer was not possible before Tivo, DVRs and Netflix video streaming (aka Instant Queue). Netflix has given us 13 episodes of “House of Cards”, a reinterpretation of the 1990 BBC miniseries which starred Sir Ian Richardson as a conniving Parliamentarian who rose to the level of prime minister before...

Following “The Following”

Written by diana on February 5, 2013. Posted in Television reviews. 2 Comments

A Fox television drama series starring Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy (the British actor who brilliantly played Marc Antony in the “Rome” series), “The Following” premiered two weeks ago (January 21). It is already gaining a fervent, mostly young audience. A furloughed FBI agent, Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon), responsible for the imprisonment of the brutal serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), is brought back into action when Carroll masterminds a series of copycat murders perpetrated by a cult following (think Charles Manson meets Silence of the Lambs). But Carroll...

Month: February 2013

“Water Marks”–What Lies Beneath the Surface

“Amour”– A Somber Sonnet to Love

“House of Cards” — A Bulimic Buffet for Couch Potatoes?

Following “The Following”

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