Jul 21 2010
First Look at An Hung Tran’s “Norwegian Wood”
From the writer/director that brought us “The Scent of Green Papaya” and “The Vertical Ray of the Sun.” Iz excited!
Archive for July, 2010
Jul 20 2010
More Specifically, “Chopin’s Prelude op. 28 No. 24 in D minor” and Where I First Heard It
I wasn’t very descriptive about the Chopin piece that I mentioned attempting yesterday, but it’s the “Prelude op. 28 No. 24 in D minor.” I’ve always been a fan of Chopin, but didn’t hear this piece until I saw it in the Vietnamese movie “The Scent of Green Papaya,” which was played during a thunderstorm [...]
Jul 19 2010
Piano Project
Today I started a new project: devoting an hour a day to the piano in the hopes that one year from now I will have honed my rusty piano playing skills. I’ve been playing since I was about twelve years old, had an amazing teacher in my late twenties (Julliard graduate, trained with Glenn Gould, [...]
Jul 16 2010
Outside, July 16, 2010
Outside is a collection of links and/or articles I’ve found interesting recently. Glenn Kenny describes The Eastwood Pass: …certain critics, so thoroughly enamored of Eastwood—not just Eastwood the director, but Eastwood the man, the myth, the legend—are just so thoroughly enamored that they’ll ignore his films’ many, many, many shortcomings. To this accusation I can [...]