Flower in the sun.
Watching the 1968 documentary THE QUEEN directed by Frank Simon on Netflix. 🎥
Watching Agnès Varda’s colourful and brilliant LE BONHEUR from 1965 again on The Criterion Channel. 🎥🌻
Watching the 1985 Japanese film TAMPOPO directed by Juzo Itami for the first time and feeling a bit hungry. 🎥🍜
Cauliflower and lentil tacos on corn tortillas with fried potatoes.
Watching Nelly Kaplan’s 1991 film THE PLEASURE OF LOVE on The Criterion Channel. 🎥
Just went for a rapid asymptomatic COVID-19 test at the pop-up testing site in Wolfville.
Watch charging.
Best new-to-me March 2021: 24 CITY, FOGO, THE 39 STEPS, BEGINNING, CORPUS CHRISTI, THE TREE HOUSE, PITY, ROSE PLAYS JULIE, ECHO, SHIVA BABY, AGAIN ONCE AGAIN.
My final film for March Around the World is AGAIN ONCE AGAIN directed by Romina Paula from Argentina on MUBI. 🎥 🇦🇷
Today continuing my March Around the World by stopping in Kenya with the 2018 film RAFIKI directed by Wanuri Kahiu. 🎥 🇰🇪
Fresh sourdough loaf cooling.
Continuing my March Around the World by watching the 2005 film THE BLOODETTES from Cameroon directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo on The Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇨🇲
Watching SHIVA BABY directed by Emma Seligman as part of the programming for Women Making Waves this year. #WMW2021
Watching a film from Afghanistan from 2019 on my March Around the World – THE ORPHANAGE directed by Shahrbanoo Sadat on MUBI. 🎥 🇦🇫
Making a stop in Finland as I March Around the World with Aki Kaurismäki’s 1994 musical documentary LENINGRAD COWBOYS: TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW on the Criterion Channel. 🎥 🇫🇮
Going to Iceland on my March Around the World today with ECHO directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. 🎥 🇮🇸
Watching the 2010 film DISSOLUTION directed by Nina Menkes on my March Around the World with a stop in Israel. 🎥 🇮🇱
Looking forward to watching ROSE PLAYS JULIE directed by Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy through Carbon Arc’s online screening. Lawlor and Molloy always make thought provoking films that stay with me. 🎥
Watching a film from Guatemala on my March Around the World with the 2015 film IXCANUL directed by Jayro Bustamante. 🎥🇬🇹
Today I’m watching the 2008 film TREELESS MOUNTAIN directed by So Yong Kim from South Korea on my March Around the World. 🎥🇰🇷
Watching a film from Romanian director Cristi Puiu from 2020 – MALMKROG on my March Around the World today. 🎥🇷🇴
Made Scaccia bread and gnocchi with a Dragon’s Breath cheese sauce for supper.
Watching the Bolivian documentary film WOMEN OF THE MINE from 2014 directed by Malena Bystrowicz and Loreley Unamuno as part of March Around the World. 🎥 🇧🇴
Continuing my March Around the World and celebrating Isabelle Huppert’s birthday with the 1991 German film MALINA directed by Werner Schroeter on MUBI. 🎥 🇩🇪