JacquiWine
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Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
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Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
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New on the blog today, I've written about LADY L. by Romain Gary.
A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
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A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
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'Skagen.' (1889) Eilif Petersen first visited Skagen in Denmark in 1884 and visited Paris the following year where he saw work by Monet and Alfred Sisley, both of whom had a profound influence in the way he depicted light on sand and moving water.
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
'Skagen.' (1889) Eilif Petersen first visited Skagen in Denmark in 1884 and visited Paris the following year where he saw work by Monet and Alfred Sisley, both of whom had a profound influence in the way he depicted light on sand and moving water.
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New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
253. Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon — Backlisted
Writer and critic Matthew De Abaitua joins Andy, Una and Nicky to discuss Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future (1930), the astounding first novel by Olaf Stapledon. The...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
New episode up now. Last and First Men (1930) by Olaf Stapledon, with guest Matthew De Abaitua in conversation with Andy Miller and Una McCormack. @mdeabaitua.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social www.backlisted.fm/episodes/253...
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"As she watched them standing there with their cups of tea, with their small talk, their discreet clothes and terrible hats, her smile became a little mischievous and she had to make an effort not to laugh. She simply longed to tell them...everything." 💙📚
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Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"As she watched them standing there with their cups of tea, with their small talk, their discreet clothes and terrible hats, her smile became a little mischievous and she had to make an effort not to laugh. She simply longed to tell them...everything." 💙📚
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First watch: Soylent Green (1973, dir. Richard Fleischer). Dystopian sci-fi that should probably be congratulated for putting global warming on the Hollywood big screen, after breakthroughs in climate science of the 1960s. 1/3
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
First watch: Soylent Green (1973, dir. Richard Fleischer). Dystopian sci-fi that should probably be congratulated for putting global warming on the Hollywood big screen, after breakthroughs in climate science of the 1960s. 1/3
NOTORIOUS on Talking Pics tomorrow afternoon! #FilmSky
Here's what's on #TalkingPicturesTV tomorrow, Tuesday 25th November.
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
NOTORIOUS on Talking Pics tomorrow afternoon! #FilmSky
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Painted in 1897, 'Les messieurs en noir,' is a strikingly modern picture for its time yet steeped in an artistic tradition that stretches back to the 17thC. Dutch genre painting with its modest subjects and bold contrasts of light and dark was a key influence on Èdouard Vuillard.
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Painted in 1897, 'Les messieurs en noir,' is a strikingly modern picture for its time yet steeped in an artistic tradition that stretches back to the 17thC. Dutch genre painting with its modest subjects and bold contrasts of light and dark was a key influence on Èdouard Vuillard.
"As she watched them standing there with their cups of tea, with their small talk, their discreet clothes and terrible hats, her smile became a little mischievous and she had to make an effort not to laugh. She simply longed to tell them...everything." 💙📚
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Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"As she watched them standing there with their cups of tea, with their small talk, their discreet clothes and terrible hats, her smile became a little mischievous and she had to make an effort not to laugh. She simply longed to tell them...everything." 💙📚
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An essay on murals and public art. Please let me know your comments. 'Life in a Boarding House,' (1930) by Eric Ravilious,' for Morley College, London was destroyed in WW2. richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/mural…
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
An essay on murals and public art. Please let me know your comments. 'Life in a Boarding House,' (1930) by Eric Ravilious,' for Morley College, London was destroyed in WW2. richardmorris.org/blog-1-1/mural…
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Almost all paintings that show a mirror and a reflection get the optical relations wrong - to see the image as unlikely is to miss its point, it's practically the only way to compose a two-fold image to reveal a hidden face, as Walter Sickert does here in this work from 1906.
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Almost all paintings that show a mirror and a reflection get the optical relations wrong - to see the image as unlikely is to miss its point, it's practically the only way to compose a two-fold image to reveal a hidden face, as Walter Sickert does here in this work from 1906.
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Some good stuff here at 2 for £15... bargains!
Delighted to see there’s a #Noirvember promotion at Fopp.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Some good stuff here at 2 for £15... bargains!
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If you're looking for an Udo Kier film to watch, may I recommend BACURAU (2019), starts off like a worthy slice of sociopolitical realism and ends up as demented Brazilian neo-western exploitation. Don't read anything else, just see it. Contains one of my favourite film moments of the 21st century.
Bacurau – Official U.S. Trailer
YouTube video by Kino Lorber
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November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
If you're looking for an Udo Kier film to watch, may I recommend BACURAU (2019), starts off like a worthy slice of sociopolitical realism and ends up as demented Brazilian neo-western exploitation. Don't read anything else, just see it. Contains one of my favourite film moments of the 21st century.
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Winter Morning The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on linen
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Winter Morning The Garden St Margarets: acrylic on linen
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On the Ramblings today, another book which counts for two reading events - #NovNov25 and #NonFictionNovember. The book tells of Mary and Percy Shelley's travels in post-Revolutionary Europe - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...
“…an aspect of tranquillity and peculiar beauty…” #novnov25 #maryshelley
Today’s post is about another book which qualifies for two November events – Non Fiction November and Novellas in November (as we are allowed to include short non fiction works). I̵…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
On the Ramblings today, another book which counts for two reading events - #NovNov25 and #NonFictionNovember. The book tells of Mary and Percy Shelley's travels in post-Revolutionary Europe - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/a...
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New on the blog today, my thoughts on LADY L. by Romain Gary.
A delightful, picaresque novella of love, secrets & political ideals. Highly recommended for anyone who likes Maupassant, Louise de Vilmorin or THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky
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A delightful, picaresque novella of love, secrets & political ideals. Highly recommended for anyone who likes Maupassant, Louise de Vilmorin or THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky
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Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New on the blog today, my thoughts on LADY L. by Romain Gary.
A delightful, picaresque novella of love, secrets & political ideals. Highly recommended for anyone who likes Maupassant, Louise de Vilmorin or THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
A delightful, picaresque novella of love, secrets & political ideals. Highly recommended for anyone who likes Maupassant, Louise de Vilmorin or THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... #BookSky 💙📚 #FilmSky
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) US street photographer whose work was discovered after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people of Chicago & New York #WomensArt
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RIP to the magnificent, beautiful and deeply bananas Udo Kier. Everyone I know who has met him, no matter how glancingly, has their Udo Kier Story. May we all live half such enormous, outrageous lives.
November 24, 2025 at 12:37 AM
RIP to the magnificent, beautiful and deeply bananas Udo Kier. Everyone I know who has met him, no matter how glancingly, has their Udo Kier Story. May we all live half such enormous, outrageous lives.
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"Lady L. hated yellow and she wondered how the flowers had found their way into the Ming vase. There had been a time when every bouquet in the house had first to be presented to her for inspection and approval." #NovNov25 #BookSky 💙📚
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Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
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November 23, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"Lady L. hated yellow and she wondered how the flowers had found their way into the Ming vase. There had been a time when every bouquet in the house had first to be presented to her for inspection and approval." #NovNov25 #BookSky 💙📚
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"... but where does imagination end and reality begin? What is this twilight, this half-world of the mind that you profess to know so much about? How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness & the powers of the mind..?"
My Letterboxd review - boxd.it/bvF4jb
My Letterboxd review - boxd.it/bvF4jb
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"... but where does imagination end and reality begin? What is this twilight, this half-world of the mind that you profess to know so much about? How can we differentiate between the powers of darkness & the powers of the mind..?"
My Letterboxd review - boxd.it/bvF4jb
My Letterboxd review - boxd.it/bvF4jb
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'Artichokes and Cathay Quinces.' Unlike other still-lifes, those by Morandi for example, John Aldridge's objects are not huddled, withdrawn or being squashed into each other so we can be sure the fruit and the flower heads are as he found them. This is from 1967.
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
'Artichokes and Cathay Quinces.' Unlike other still-lifes, those by Morandi for example, John Aldridge's objects are not huddled, withdrawn or being squashed into each other so we can be sure the fruit and the flower heads are as he found them. This is from 1967.
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IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE continues to show from 35mm in regular weekend slots, screening in its original theatrical colour : those deep reds and burnished ambers.
It’s one of the greatest films ever made, full stop.
🎟️ : buff.ly/Qk0I7rr
It’s one of the greatest films ever made, full stop.
🎟️ : buff.ly/Qk0I7rr
November 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE continues to show from 35mm in regular weekend slots, screening in its original theatrical colour : those deep reds and burnished ambers.
It’s one of the greatest films ever made, full stop.
🎟️ : buff.ly/Qk0I7rr
It’s one of the greatest films ever made, full stop.
🎟️ : buff.ly/Qk0I7rr
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New on the blog today, I've written about LADY L. by Romain Gary.
A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
Lady L. by Romain Gary
Twice winner of the Prix Goncourt (once under a pen name), Romain Gary was a French writer, diplomat, film director and WW2 pilot of great repute. His highly engaging memoir, Promise at Dawn, is by…
jacquiwine.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
New on the blog today, I've written about LADY L. by Romain Gary.
A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/l...
A charming, hugely enjoyable story of love, long-held secrets & railing against the establishment, in which personal desires are pitted against political principles & beliefs. I loved it! 💙📚
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The best performance that William H. Macy has given in, roughly, 30 years. And there is a scene with Kerry Condon that really got to me.
Joel Edgerton is remarkable in the lead. A performance of unspoken yearning, loss and grief. When Edgerton is great, he can be amazing.
Joel Edgerton is remarkable in the lead. A performance of unspoken yearning, loss and grief. When Edgerton is great, he can be amazing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The best performance that William H. Macy has given in, roughly, 30 years. And there is a scene with Kerry Condon that really got to me.
Joel Edgerton is remarkable in the lead. A performance of unspoken yearning, loss and grief. When Edgerton is great, he can be amazing.
Joel Edgerton is remarkable in the lead. A performance of unspoken yearning, loss and grief. When Edgerton is great, he can be amazing.
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Made me want to re-read Afterward by Edith Wharton, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, almost immediately.
On that metric, it is the best film I have watched this year.
On that metric, it is the best film I have watched this year.
November 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Made me want to re-read Afterward by Edith Wharton, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, almost immediately.
On that metric, it is the best film I have watched this year.
On that metric, it is the best film I have watched this year.