c a s a f o r t e

fish&coffee

2012-02-11T22:02:00.000+01:00

let's go global!

2012-02-11T10:58:00.002+01:00

Anamorphism

2012-02-11T01:32:00.001+01:00

Skyfall rumors

2012-02-08T19:13:00.000+01:00

Few days ago, Ralph Fiennes revealed some meager character details about his role in the upcoming James Bond adventure Skyfall, offering this small hint.

"I'm allowed to say that I'm a government agent."

Now, an insider at EON Productions has slipped a few more story details our way, and it seems Ralph Fiennes will actually replace Judi Dench as the new M.

"This will be Dame Judi's final 007 appearance, with Fiennes set to carry on the character into the unforeseeable future". movieweb.com reported.

"Ralph Fiennes play's a government agent, which we never get a name on, because he is set to play the new M.Skyfall centers around M (Judi Dench) where her past forces her to leave as head of MI6, and find a new M. The board of MI6 then turns to a government agent (Ralph Fiennes) to take over. M (Dame Judi) is now forced to train the new head of MI6."

While this news has yet to be confirmed, movieweb.com says it does come from a quite reliable source inside the studio.

Happy birthday!

2012-02-08T18:40:00.001+01:00

landed

2012-02-08T18:37:00.001+01:00

monsterswall

2012-02-08T07:54:00.000+01:00

the a c e of s p a d e

2012-02-06T20:04:00.001+01:00

ill wind

2012-02-06T19:46:00.001+01:00

visions of Poe

2012-02-06T19:35:00.001+01:00

Bert Myers' X-Rays

2012-02-06T19:34:00.002+01:00

This is what you are...

2012-02-06T19:28:00.001+01:00

what do you see?

2012-02-05T09:51:00.001+01:00

peenut

2012-02-05T09:50:00.001+01:00

Skyfall teaser-ing 11

2012-02-04T19:49:00.001+01:00

oh life....

2012-02-04T10:55:00.001+01:00

To Kill A Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Blu-ray

2012-02-02T18:29:00.000+01:00

The Doctor is IN

2012-02-01T21:27:00.001+01:00

Dancing Plague of 1518

2012-02-01T21:08:00.000+01:00

The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, France (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518.

Numerous people took to dancing for days without rest over the period of about one month. The outbreak began in July 1518, when a woman, Frau Troffea, began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week, 34 others had joined, and within a month, there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.

Historical documents, including "physician notes, cathedral sermons, local and regional chronicles, and even notes issued by the Strasbourg city council" are clear that the victims danced. It is not known why these people danced to their deaths.As the dancing plague worsened, concerned nobles sought the advice of local physicians, who ruled out astrological and supernatural causes, instead announcing that the plague was a "natural disease" caused by "hot blood." However, instead of prescribing bleeding, authorities encouraged more dancing, in part by opening two guildhalls and a grain market, and even constructing a wooden stage. The authorities did this because they believed that the dancers would only recover if they danced continuously night and day. To increase the effectiveness of the cure, authorities even paid for musicians to keep the afflicted moving. Some of the dancers were taken to a shrine, where they sought a cure for their affliction.

Skyfall update : Bond is back! first official picture

2012-02-01T16:43:00.000+01:00

gold fireflies in Japan

2012-02-01T08:41:00.001+01:00

Futureworld (1976)

2012-01-31T08:19:00.001+01:00

moreSea

2012-01-30T20:57:00.001+01:00

inside

2012-01-30T17:15:00.002+01:00

LoveHate

2012-01-30T10:29:00.001+01:00

Scripta volant...

2012-01-30T10:27:00.000+01:00

The Human Condition

2012-01-30T10:01:00.002+01:00

heart of glass

2012-01-30T10:00:00.000+01:00

theSea

2012-01-29T09:25:00.000+01:00

doubles

2012-01-29T09:24:00.001+01:00

stars

2012-01-29T09:22:00.001+01:00

baby friendly

2012-01-29T09:19:00.001+01:00

flying leaves

2012-01-28T12:46:00.001+01:00

Brassaï, A Salers (Auvergne), 1949

2012-01-28T10:38:00.001+01:00

Piero Manzoni (1961)

2012-01-26T08:08:00.001+01:00

Skyfall teaser-ing 10

2012-01-25T20:05:00.001+01:00

In Memoriam : Nicol Williamson (1938-2011)

2012-01-25T20:04:00.000+01:00

Scottish actor Nicol Williamson has died aged 73, reports The Daily Telegraph.

According to his son Luke, the stage and screen actor died of esophageal cancer on December 16.

He was best known for his roles in Excalibur and The Exorcist III, as well as a long and much acclaimed stage career.

Williamson was a star turn as Merlin in John Boorman's dark folk fantasy Excalibur, in which he was reluctantly cast alongside former lover Helen Mirren. Boorman's mischief-making paid off: the pair share the best scenes in the film, with Mirren's Morgana and Williamson's wizard playing wittily off against each other. Williamson and Mirren had worked together once before, although much less auspiciously, in a radical staging of Macbeth. The Hamilton-born actor made his name in John Osbourne's Inadmissible Evidence for which he received great acclaim and, later, a Tony award on Broadway. Osborne later described him as the greatest actor since Brando, a claim another playwright, Samuel Beckett, would corroborate. He was an actor, said Beckett, "touched by genius".

Richard Lester's Robin And Marian, brought a much-valued opportunity to work with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn, and his portrayal of a cocaine addicted Sherlock Holmes in Nicholas Mayer's The Seven Per-cent Solution is one of the best interpretation of the character ever.

The actor, who was known as a straighforward, private man, leaves his son, Luke. "He was the most honest, funny and intelligent man I have ever had the pleasure of knowing," writes Luke on Williamson's official website. "He was my father and words cannot adequately express how proud I am of him."

Monsieur Babar

2012-01-25T19:29:00.001+01:00

the troubled gentleman

2012-01-25T08:28:00.003+01:00

watch the skies

2012-01-25T08:28:00.001+01:00

body changes

2012-01-25T08:26:00.001+01:00

Pavel Puhov

2012-01-23T00:25:00.001+01:00

In Memoriam : Etta James (1938-2012)

2012-01-20T20:22:00.001+01:00

James Bond 50° Anniversary : Dr No - Original Trailer

2012-01-18T21:02:00.000+01:00

Milan dreaming...

2012-01-18T07:48:00.000+01:00

try a book

2012-01-18T07:36:00.001+01:00

Happy birthday!

2012-01-17T20:35:00.001+01:00

James Bond 50° Anniversary : the introduction of James Bond

2012-01-17T17:52:00.001+01:00

The character James Bond was introduced towards, but not at, the beginning of the film in a "now-famous nightclub sequence featuring Sylvia Trench", to whom he makes his "immortal introduction".

The introduction to the character in Le Cercle at Les Ambassadeurs, an upmarket gambling club, is derived from Bond's introduction in the first novel, Casino Royale which Fleming had used because "skill at gambling and knowledge of how to behave in a casino were seen...as attributes of a gentleman". After losing a hand of Chemin de Fer to Bond, Trench asks his name. There is the "most important gesture [in]...the way he lights his cigarette before giving her the satisfaction of an answer. 'Bond, James Bond'." Once Connery says his line, John Barry's Bond theme plays "and creates an indelible link between music and character."

In the short scene introducing Bond, there are portrayed "qualities of strength, action, reaction, violence - and this elegant, slightly brutal gambler with the quizzical sneer we see before us who answers a woman when he's good and ready." Raymond Benson, author of the continuation Bond novels, has stated that as the music fades up on the scene, "we have ourselves a piece of classic cinema".

Following the release of Dr. No, the quote "Bond ... James Bond," became a catch phrase that entered the lexicon of Western popular culture: writers Cork and Scivally said of the introduction in Dr. No that the "signature introduction would become the most famous and loved film line ever". In 2001 it was voted as the "best-loved one-liner in cinema" by British cinema goers. In 2005, it was honoured as the 22nd greatest quotation in cinema history by the American Film Institute as part of their 100 Years Series.

yesterday...50 years ago

2012-01-17T07:51:00.004+01:00

...when it all started...

This year marks the 50° anniversary of James Bond films, yesterday 50 years ago Dr. No shooting started in Jamaica.

The "Dr. No" crew arrived in Jamaica on Sunday 14th January and began filming on Tuesday 16th January 1962 at Kingston, Oncaros, Montego Bay and the Palisadoes Airport.

Sean Connery’s first day as James Bond was spent at the airport, and the afternoon was spent shooting the phone-booth scene in which Bond discovers his chauffeur is a double-agent.

Terence Young filmed several takes and caught one close-up where Connery was glaring intensely at actor Reggie Carter. Young loved the shot and later recalled that it was “the beginning of Bond”. After the first day’s work, the crew had secured footage that would last just under two minutes in the final cut.Much use was also made of local talent to play smaller roles.

Dolores Keator played Strangways’ secretary Mary Prescott because she owned the house that the crew were shooting in. The bartender seen at Puss-Feller’s club was a relative of costume designer Tessa Welborn.

Other local amateur actors took the roles of the Chief of Police and the construction worker, who watches the car carrying the thugs pursuing Bond as it careens over the edge of the cliff.

Marguerite LeWars was serving as the crowned Miss Jamaica when 007 came calling. She landed the role of Dr. No’s photographer after production crew encountered her at Kingston airport as they were preparing for filming, where LeWars was an employee at the time.

Marlene Dietrich by Eve Arnold

2012-01-16T20:10:00.001+01:00

In Memoriam : Carlo Fruttero (1926-2012)

2012-01-16T07:42:00.001+01:00

Come fly with me

2012-01-15T08:47:00.003+01:00

Typographic WorldMap

2012-01-15T08:47:00.001+01:00

getoverit tees

2012-01-15T08:44:00.001+01:00

Les Oreades (1902) by William Adolphe Bouguereau

2012-01-14T19:04:00.001+01:00

bait

2012-01-14T19:03:00.001+01:00

Sometime in 1977...

2012-01-14T10:28:00.001+01:00

tea time

2012-01-13T20:34:00.001+01:00

t o d a y

2012-01-13T20:33:00.000+01:00

The one and only.....

2012-01-13T00:29:00.001+01:00

Bartosz Kosowski

2012-01-13T00:22:00.001+01:00

drawers of the mind

2012-01-11T19:12:00.001+01:00

holidays pills

2012-01-11T06:27:00.001+01:00

graphia

2012-01-10T16:46:00.000+01:00

Skyfall update : Thomas Newman on board

2012-01-10T12:18:00.000+01:00

Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced yesterday that composer Thomas Newman will score the 23rd James Bond film, SKYFALL. “We are delighted to confirm that Thomas Newman will score SKYFALL. Thomas is one of the most respected and successful composers, he has a long history of working with Sam Mendes and we look forward to welcoming him into the Bond family,” commented Michael. G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.

“I’m incredibly excited to be working with Sam again - commented Newman - It’s a real thrill to be able to collaborate on something as special as a Bond movie.”

Hitch&Andy

2012-01-09T19:43:00.001+01:00

the kraken - moufflon by Pakowacz

2012-01-09T19:39:00.001+01:00

pattern

2012-01-09T07:06:00.000+01:00

...and we're back!

2012-01-08T09:53:00.001+01:00

closed for holidays until the 8th of January

2011-12-24T10:40:00.001+01:00

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2011-12-23T15:57:00.001+01:00

Hitch, Hitch, Hurrah!

2011-12-23T08:12:00.001+01:00

focus

2011-12-23T08:11:00.001+01:00

Alzheimer's eraser

2011-12-23T08:06:00.000+01:00

teeth

2011-12-22T08:35:00.000+01:00

teeth

size does matter

2011-12-22T08:34:00.001+01:00

Merry...

2011-12-21T23:14:00.000+01:00

...and a happy new...

2011-12-21T23:12:00.001+01:00

RamboMacGyverChuckNorris

2011-12-21T22:56:00.001+01:00

EyesUp!

2011-12-21T22:39:00.000+01:00

...these are a few of my favorite things...

2011-12-21T22:32:00.000+01:00

...eiD

2011-12-21T21:01:00.002+01:00

etchiuuuu!

2011-12-21T21:00:00.001+01:00

End of the Game (1975)

2011-12-20T22:12:00.001+01:00

Friederick Durrenmatt's Der Richter und sein Henker was made into a film in 1975 titled End of the Game directed by Maximilian Schell, with screenplay by Dürrenmatt and Schell.

Jon Voight took lead billing as Walter Tschanz, with Martin Ritt as Hans Bärlach and Robert Shaw as Richard Gastmann. Jacqueline Bisset and Friedrich Dürrenmatt also appeared in the film, and Donald Sutherland played the role of the corpse of Lt. Schmeid.

German silent film actress Lil Dagover made her last screen appearance before retirement in the film.

The film was also reissued as Getting Away With Murder, Murder on the Bridge and Deception.

Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story as Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years trying to pin the murder of the woman he loved on Richard Gastmann, an "untouchable" industrialist (Robert Shaw). When Barlach's assistant Donald Sutherland is killed while trying to get the goods on Gastmann, the inspector puts idealistic detective Walter Tschantz (Jon Voight) on the case. Jacqueline Bisset costars as Anna Crawley Sutherland's girl friend, who attempts to solve the case on her own.

The novel upon which End of the Game is based has all the classical themes of author Friedrich Durrenmatt, long fascinated with the intangible aspects of Guilt and Innocence.

The Artist (2011)

2011-12-20T20:49:00.000+01:00

The Dark Knight Rises official trailer

2011-12-20T20:35:00.000+01:00

Sarolta Ban's RAVENS

2011-12-20T20:15:00.002+01:00

free your birds!

2011-12-20T19:54:00.001+01:00

songs streetmap

2011-12-20T07:36:00.001+01:00

Art is in every corner.....

2011-12-20T07:35:00.002+01:00

In Memoriam : Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)

2011-12-18T21:52:00.000+01:00

The Wicker Tree trailer

2011-12-18T10:43:00.000+01:00

Happy birthday!

2011-12-18T10:32:00.002+01:00

Enrique Gomez De Molina's impossible taxidermism

2011-12-18T10:05:00.000+01:00

«The impossibility of my creatures brings me both joy and sadness at the same time. The joy comes from seeing and experiencing the Fantasy of the work but that is coupled with the sadness of the fact that we are destroying all of these beautiful things.»

Santa Claus is coming to town!

2011-12-17T18:01:00.001+01:00

a ghost at my table

2011-12-17T12:35:00.003+01:00

Zonbies comix by Andre De Freitas

2011-12-17T12:27:00.000+01:00

the beat

2011-12-17T12:16:00.001+01:00

buddies

2011-12-17T11:17:00.001+01:00

Lunar calendar 2012

2011-12-17T11:07:00.001+01:00