Off to Paris tomorrow! I’m staying right by Shakespeare & Co, which will be heaven. I’m a bit nervy, my French is utterly shit and done with a very obvious angleterre accent as well as navigating the city without getting lost! But the Jacques Demy exhibition at the Cinematheque Francaise will be so worth it!
"Here's looking at you kid"
I'm a film crazy gal, nuts for Bollywood and Hollywood films, hence the disease Bollyhollymusical-itis. I'm at Uni now in the countryside, lots of fields to unleash Bollywood passion! Its quite common for me to burst into song, and run around the trees!
Theme by Nico
Me and a 40yr old Shah Jahan
→ 0 notes ♥ 22 May 13 at 2pm Tagged: Victoria & Albert Museum. GPOY. Portrait of Shah Jahan - 40yrs. Felt so overwhelmed with all my faves there. Mughal art.
The Jacques Demy exhibit at the Cinematheque Francaise was lovely and they recreated the wallpaper from Les Parapluis de Cherbourg. And so many lovely candids and on-set stills by Agnes Varda. The most heartening and lovely experience in Paris!
(Source: umbartha)
→ 8 notes ♥ 18 May 13 at 2pm (via bollymusings) Source Tagged: i wonder if this is from the Saagar times. He was so hot in that. Rishi Kapoor. Studmuffin.
Kenji Mizoguchi with William Wyler and Yasujirō Ozu (on the furthest right)
Satyajit Ray with Akira Kurosawa in Tokyo, 1966
→ 65 notes ♥ 08 May 13 at 3pm (via mizoguchi) Source Tagged: Satyajit Ray. Akira Kurosawa. My loves. Auteur pyar. :3. I just imagine them comparing notes and cackling at poseurs in their cool boy club.
It’s so hard not to cry and feel overwhelmed at eating Bhajias, pooris, theplas, kadhi, kulfi, rajmah in the space of 2 days being back here, this nostalgic overeating is kicking after all that brilliant food that I left behind with these relies…
→ 3 notes ♥ 04 May 13 at 9pm Tagged: its good to have a break from dahl n chawl. Indian food. Nostalgic overeating.
The newest art-house classic on this flight is the queer subtextual film ‘Student of the Year’
Y’all don’t give this film enough credit…
Off to London tomorrow…and Paris too!
It’s gonna be a really odd to go back and revisit my familiar haunts without those rosy-coloured glasses of nostalgia and that wistfulness that things might be much better if I was ‘home’ in London. But do stick by for some sporadic pictures and ramblings. But i am looking forward to eating some Strawberry laces, Coco Pops, Marks and Spencer’s sandwiches, going to the British Library to look at all them miniatures I studied over the years. BUT MAINLY all those chocolates and sweets that I’ve been craving for the past 3 years!
Art Spiegelman - Maus sketch n Short Order
Saw this amazing showcase of Spiegelman’s work at the Vancouver Art Gallery from his early underground work, Maus, In The Shadow of No Towers, and Breakdowns along with his bizarrely brilliant kids books! It felt so transcendental and overwhelming to see all these works of his graphic novels in sketches, with his witty annotations especially after revisiting his work at uni this year.
→ 0 notes ♥ 29 Apr 13 at 1am Tagged: Art Spiegelman. Maus. Short Order. artwork. Spent at least an hour walking by the Maus sketches.
Mbissine Thérèse Diop in Ousmane Sembene’s La Noire de… (1966)
→ 221 notes ♥ 26 Apr 13 at 3pm (via rustons) Source Tagged: Ousmane Sembene. La Noire de.... Such a brilliant film. So thankful to have watched this in my postcolonialism class. mbissine thérèse diop. One of my faves.
