@mtljeff.bsky.social
In Montreal, writing about movies, music, wine and other good things in life. More at www.jeffheinrich.com. Previously at https://qoto.org/@montrealjeff.
98 producers, 465 wines & Jonathan Gebser's lesson on the "slow wine" movement: for me, the Italian Trade Agency Canada's tasting event at Montreal's MarchΓ© Bonsecours also meant quaffing some lovely white Abruzzo blends and Aurelio Settimo's great Barolo 2019, now just arrived at the SAQ ($55).
11.11.2025 18:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A classic break-up song. This track came over the car radio back in '89, catching me by surprise and making me pull over. Thanks, Rosie. youtube.com/watch?v=pQMl...
19.07.2025 02:17 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Brings to mind Maclean's magazine critic Brian D. Johnson, re. Jon Voight in the Arctic thriller Runaway Train: "A rare glimpse of wood north of the tree line."
19.06.2025 21:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel look at a blonde in Mike Nichols' 1971 film Carnal Knowledge.
Nicholson & Garfunkel, Polanski, Ealing Studios & Basil Dearden: get to know them all a bit better via these four new Blu-ray and UHD releases from @indicator.bsky.social.
jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-...
You're welcome, but that link gives a 404 error. Here's the correct one: www.ledevoir.com/culture/cine...
30.05.2025 01:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Credit for this delightful photo should go to Montreal photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Pedro Ruiz. Here's his full-colour original in the daily newspaper Le Devoir: www.ledevoir.com/culture/cine...
29.05.2025 18:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Meanwhile, in the world of #AI ... (Gros soupir)
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#LEGACY When we met in Montreal in 2013 for a @ridm-festival.bsky.social⬠career retrospective at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social, Ophuls wrote atop the cover of an old French film magazine⬠he'd been featured in for 'The Sorrow and the Pity": "Le jeune cinéma n'est plus jeune. Il est vieux comme moi."
29.05.2025 17:28 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
French-German documentary film director Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus) drawn in 1988 by Canadian syndicated caricaturist Kerry Waghorn.
#OBIT I've always thought Canadian caricaturist Kerry Waghorn best captured the essence of #MarcelOphuls, who died Saturday at age 97: lips, glasses, jumper, slouch. And is that outstretched hand begging for funding or simply making a point?
29.05.2025 17:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just getting to this, but oooph, what a harmonious musical experiment for our dissonant times. A big bravo!
29.04.2025 02:41 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"Dignity. Always dignity."
11.04.2025 21:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Orange-and-black label of Springbank 10 whisky.
Me too; huzzah to you both :-) The 10-year-old was long my go-to. Snagged a bottle for my travel companions a couple of years ago at a shop in Pitlochry. Salesman said they rarely get any in, receive no advance notice, and sell out within a matter of hours.
11.04.2025 02:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"In all honesty Iβm terrified, but also quietly determined, in a way I havenβt been in a very, very long time." In 1983, your resolve was already plain to see β literally written on the wall! www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Zy...
02.04.2025 20:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This would be him made up for the role of the Soviet arms negotiator Botvinnik in Lee Blessing's 'A Walk in the Woods.' I saw that show in 1988 at London's Comedy Theatre, and met him afterwards at the stage door while he waited for his cab. Memorable!
02.04.2025 17:35 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Guinness in a suit and hat, sitting on stage in an empty theatre.
Remembering Alec Guinness on his birthday π
π· Michael Ward, 1985
"There was nothing he lacked, as far as I could see, except tact."
- John Gielgud
A home library shelf of books, DVDs, Blu-rays and a lone 7" single (from 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' soundtrack) featuring the late British actor Alec Guinness.
A hero. He gets half a shelf in my library (there's more behind).
02.04.2025 17:28 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Icyww, "Ornithologist" doesn't exist. The actual "International Journal of Avian Science" is called Ibis.
01.04.2025 17:23 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tweets in a blue sky, cries of intelligent life: the birds and us.
01.04.2025 14:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Did you know he loves rock groups, too ... as a scholar of dolmens and menhirs? #TheModernAntiquarian
01.04.2025 03:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Two new #Blu-ray releases to start your spring: a boxset of early 1960s "krimis" featuring the evil "Dr. Mabuse," and a farce from the #Czech New Wave about musicians in crisis.
My reviews: jeffheinrich.com/Spring-2025-... @secondrun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jhv...
For you, Mel, whoever and wherever you think you are.
16.02.2025 01:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Winter can be such a drag ... but if you like to watch, here are some new Blu's: jeffheinrich.com/Winter-2024-... Early works by Douglas Sirk, an 8-hour doc, a Nouvelle Vague love triangle, and doings Down Under. @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @viavisionent.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia
15.02.2025 01:26 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
#Top10BleakSongs
#MusicChallenge
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
youtu.be/Yf3LojyK7PA
"Most of all / When snowflakes fall / I wish you love."
02.01.2025 17:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Boxsets & Blu-rays, covers & commentaries, distributors & DVDs: 186 reviewers (including me) choose the best of 2024 in DVDBeaver's annual poll:
www.dvdbeaver.com/30/blu-ray_a... @indicator.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @trailersfromhell.bsky.social #physicalmedia
Mel Bonis at age 19, painting by Charles-Auguste Corbineau (1877).
Elisabeth Pion in her mid-20s, in a photo by Frederick Robitaille.
Born a century-and-a-half apart but united by notes on a music sheet: French composer Mel Boris and Quebec pianist Γlisabeth Pion. They featured yesterday in an 'Off Bach' concert at the 18th Montreal Bach Festival. Playful, soulful, Romantic β the miniatures sing! atmaclassique.com/en/product/f...
04.12.2024 23:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Luka Coetzee, 20, a Canadian cellist now based in Germany, will play the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. The sold-out show is part of the annual Montreal Bach Festival, which has been running since 2005.
At its popular 'Off Bach' series of free shows on St. Laurent Blvd., organizers like to ask: "How many of you also plan on attending one of our (paid) evening concerts?" Well, count me in: I just bought the last ticket for this, tomorrow night: festivalbachmontreal.com/en/concerts/...
02.12.2024 02:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sandy Ratcliff as Janice, in Ken Loach's 'Family Life' (1971).
Tenebrous: young Sandy Ratcliff casts a long shadow in Ken Loach's psycho-drama 'Family Life' (1971). Satirical: on the campaign trail, Cupid's arrows fly 'Left Right and Centre' (1959). New to Blu-ray, exclusive to Canada and the U.S., from @indicator.bsky.social.
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Topping up my reviews of new releases on Blu-ray this fall, I peer into the obscure (an early '60s Czech musical called 'The Hop-Pickers') and revisit a Japanese classic (Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'): jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-... @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social
18.11.2024 03:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm now here, after 10 years on Twitter and two on Mastodon. Aerial artwork is by Jocelyn Blouin, hanging in my bathroom.
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