'They Shoot Horses, Dont they?' 1969

I stumbled upon this film when looking at lists of Academy award films and I’m so happy I found it. The movie was nominated for 9 Academy Awards. It won one award for best supporting actor

 

Set during the Great Depression, people would compete in marathon dances where they would dance constantly for days. The last remaining couple won the prize money

Some parts were cruelly hard to watch. The desperation and futility of the depression is shown through the endless plight of the marathon dancers; weak and exhausted and heading for an empty prize they continue dancing. 

Young Jane Fonda is beautiful, with her svelte physique and frazzled curls. Entertaining no notions of happy endings; Her response to the world is bitter, cynical yet highly realistic. It should’ve taken more time for me to warm to her character, yet I felt a fondness after the first glimpse of her in the queue.
Michael Sarrazin played Robert. Poor hopeless Robert. with his beautiful eyes and composed nature

Watching the film is an experience in itself: it is agonizing, deeply perceptive, exhausting and heartbreaking- I loved this film 

Saturday in London Part 3

Covent Garden Part 2

Some paper theatres and puppets at pollocks

I took lots of photos of the paper dolls, china rabbits,

miniature dolls, Decoupages and  little theatres

 

Jack coming up the stairs

cautious!! 

Curious!!

 

 

What a lovely shop

pity it was so packed

Saturday in London. Part 2

 Covent garden- part 1

 

The Christmas lights inside of covent garden were giant baubles and spinning discoballs. 

The disco balls created circles of light that danced around the indoor market.

On the floor, on the walls and on our faces. 

 

The Apple Market

 

 

 

 Christmas trees inside and a giant one outside

A giant reindeer

NATIVITY

Martha Fiennes

‘This moving image artwork is a highly contemporary interpretation 

of the world re-nowned Nativity story. 

Director Martha Fiennes has created this pioneering and 

unique artwork which effectively enables the image to come alive. 

The process uses a highly innovative new media 

technology called slOimage

I really liked the slow, subtle movements 

made by the Mary and Joseph characters. 

Other characters entered and exited the screen,

dressed in long satin dresses. 

Illusive transitions from daytime to night and fluid 

movements of mist, leaves and shadows. 

Saturday in London. Part 1

SATURDAY 19^thNOVEMBER

Today Jack and I went to London to see some Christmas lights and get in the festive mood. 

 

First we stopped for lunch and Jack finally got to try Paul’s hot chocolate. 

I had been telling Jack for 3 years now, that he simply 

‘Had to try Pauls hot chcocolate!’.

This hot chocolate is how I imagine the hot chcocolate in the film 'polar express' to taste like. 

It is warm melted chcocolate, thick and incredibly sweet. 

I have never tasted anything like Pauls. 

We only needed to share a small cup before we felt contently full.

When in London it is vital I pay a visit to ‘ARTBOX’. 

I could buy everything in that shop quite easily. 

 Today I just bought a notebook.

Everything is super cute!

On our way again 

Some lovely window displays catch my eye

  

PAN AM

 

On BBC2 Tonight I watched the first 2 episodes of PAN AM starring Christina Ricci

The new series follows the American airline pan am during the early 60s. Unmarried women under a certain age could enter the air hostess industry

There is something so alluring about the Chic high life of the pan am Air hostesses.

Unitedly, they parade through the airport, radiating elegance, class and an all-American glow. The fact that these women had such high standards of perfection to withhold to (With daily weigh-ins and compulsory girdles) seems insignificant in contrast to the Exotic countries they would experience.

These women in their sharp blue uniforms (like the sky ahead) represented the PAN AM dream, the American brand and the possibilities

Rifling through one of those blue signature pan am handbags belonging to a hostess, one could find a number of souvenirs collected from various destinations, amongst them a snow globe (not so commonplace in those times). For in the 60s, a trip on an aeroplane was really a prestigious enthralling event.

With this new mode of transport available to the middle-class public the world was available to be conquered, and it was with the pan am women that you would make this special journey.

Not everyone had passports! How different that is today

 Its funny how the air hostesses nowadays are so much more like the Matt Lucas version in ‘come fly with me’ than Christina Ricci’s. But today ‘glamour’ means something very different so Im not surprised. 

After the show I drew a picture of Christina in her uniform. Its quite rough and didnt take me long but christina is fun to draw with her big bug eyes