I just saw the 2024 biopic about Maurice Ravel called "Boléro" that was directed by Anne Fontaine. I saw it out of curiosity because I simply don't know much about Ravel or how the piece was composed. The movie was OK because it is just a dramatisation based on a book. However, at the end, the piece is actually played on its own (about the last half only) with Raphaël Personnaz (the actor playing Ravel) conducting the orchestra with one ballet dancer dancing through and next to the orchestra. That is when I choked up and teared up. I have always loved the piece. Ravel wrote other music, which I don't know as well. Ravel came across - in the movie - as a perfectionist and someone deeply fascinated by sounds around him. I have the impression it wasn't the one piece he wanted to be remembered for, but the last 10 minutes of just playing the music - no film storytelling, just music storytelling - hit some chord in me, and I found beauty in it. Watching the "OK" movie part was worth it for those 10 minutes. (Danes: watch it on Filmstriben, of course.)

By the way, the movie intro was a great collection of various musicians doing their version of Boléro. Very cleverly done. Which is where I learned Frank Zappa had his own version, which includes the slide trombonist doing a bit of ballet at one point!

https://youtu.be/d5nknnhZVs8?si=J07t05QInbCVnh-m

#Ravel #Bolero #cinemastodon #FrankZappa #Filmstriben

🍿 Skolen ved verdens ende (2019)

🇧🇹 Smuk og rørende film #film fra #Bhutan, der handler om kærlighed og andre vigtige ting her i livet. Kan ses på #Filmstriben netop nu:

🔗 https://fjernleje.filmstriben.dk/film/9000006188/skolen-ved-verdens-ende

Jeg har logget ind på filmstriben, men kan ikke downloade appen i Play Store, fordi jeg får at vide, at denne app ikke er tilgængelig i mit land. Jeg havde først min VPN indstillet til Tyskland, derefter til Danmark, og til sidst afbrød jeg forbindelsen, men jeg kan stadig ikke downloade appen. Er der nogen, der har en idé?

#Danskertrut #NytiDanmark #filmstriben #followerpower

I highly recomment the documentary "Citizen Jane: Battle for the City" (2016).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3699354/

Anyone involved in any sort of #UrbanPlanning should watch it & learn from Jane Jacobs' activism. She spoke out against urban planning & slum clearances that ignored the needs of people. #UX people might even get inspired by her.

You can dig deeper in her book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities. It is still in active use as I understood from the documentary.

She went up against Robert Moses, who sounds like a Trump-like character who wanted to build sterile landscapes designed for cars, not people. Rather soulless, in fact. Jacobs & others stopped him, but unfortunately, many around the world adopted his ideas. which suddenly explains all those blocks of soulless housing you see from other big cities, Those blocks that have often been dynamited decades after being built because they failed. #cinemastodon #documentary #filmstriben

Hvor er jeg glad for at have biblioteker. I dag har jeg set Munken og geværet på #filmstriben
Det handler om politik og våben så de samme emner, der bekymrer os så meget nu. Og dog fra en helt anden vinkel...

https://fjernleje.filmstriben.dk/film/9000006907/munken-og-gevaeret