3 posts tagged “movie”

Christ Pantocrator - Santa Fe, NM

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Another SoundSlide experiment for your viewing pleasure: This is Home!

Or see at: http://www.webng.com/mateliza/This%20Is%20Home/

Chronicles Of Narnia Prince Caspian Movie

This Is Home

I've got my memories
They're always
Inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe now
I've seen too much
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
Created for a place
I've never known

Chorus:
This is home
Now I'm finally
Where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah, this is home
I've been searching
For a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home

Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was
And I got my heart
Set on
What happens next
I got my eyes wide
It's not over yet
We are miracles
And we're not alone

(Chorus)

And now after all
My searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see
The sunset
I'm gonna call it home

(Chorus)

Now I know
Yeah, this is home

I've come too far
Now I won't go back
This is home

The Chronicles of Narnia Prince Caspian Soundtrack

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Babette's Feast

Many years ago, my dear and long time friend Julie K., who lives back in Georgia, told me I just had to watch this film with her. Well, things didn't work out to do so, and sometime later, we moved to New Mexico, then to South Texas. Recently, I saw the film on DVD at our local library. I checked it out and our family watched it together, with Julie's memory freshly kindled and a glass of nice wine in hand.

Babette's Feast  (Danish: Babettes gæstebud) is an excellent movie, full of cultural and culinary contrasts and many interesting turns. The ending is fabulous.  I found a tidbit on YouTube, shared here:

For the best effect, just watch it! (glass of wine in hand - highly recommended). I liked it best heard in native Danish and French languages, with English subtitles. We watched it again dubbed in English (also with subtitles). My daughters preferred it that way, but I felt more of the richness of the movie and contrasting cultures came through when heard in Danish and French. You decide for oyurself... (glass of wine in hand...)

From Wikipedia, part of the synopsis - hopefully, not a spoiler!

Synopsis

Babette's Feast tells the story of Babette Hertsard (Stéphane Audran), a 19th century Parisian political refugee who flees on a boat to Frederikshavn in Denmark with the help of her nephew, and forms a relationship with two elderly and pious Christian sisters. The sisters, Martina (named for Martin Luther) and Philippa (named for Luther's friend and biographer Philip Melanchthon), are the daughters of a pastor who has founded his own religious sect.

Babette, whose background as a great chef is unknown to the villagers, works as a cook and housekeeper for Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel) in their house in a small village on the remote and beautiful coast of Jutland. After introducing this setup, the film relates the story of two suitors of these once young, ravishing beauties (played by Hanne Stensgaard and Vibeke Hastrup). Each suitor has ambitious plans both for himself and the "angel" he imagines by his side on the road to worldly renown. Each daughter deflects her pursuer, choosing, instead, a life of quiet piety. Babette shows up at the sisters' door many years hence with a letter from Philippa's former suitor, explaining her status as a refugee and recommending her as a housekeeper. Babette spends fourteen years as the sisters' cook. Her only link to her former life is a lottery ticket that a friend in Paris renews for her every year. One day, she wins the lottery and decides to use the money to prepare a delicious dinner for the sisters and their small congregation. More than just an epicurean delight, the feast is an outpouring of Babette's gratitude, with eucharistic echoes and is an act of self-sacrifice.

Timeline (Widescreen Edition)

Every once in a while, we will browse the discount store's big cardboard DVD 'bin' for films we might want to pick up for anywhere from $3.00 - $5.00. Usually, these are titles we've never heard of, or movies I wouldn't buy for $1.00 or even watch for big money. Every once in a while, we'll luck out pick up a bargain 'winner' though. TIMELINE was one of these good finds. The story line is in brief, a group of archeologists working on a dig in France have to go back in time to rescue their professor. The story settings are 1357 France, during the 100 Years War, and modern-day France, in the 1970's I think. There are two very nice romances in the story, some wonderful period costumes & weaponry - GREAT trebuchets!!!!  and archery shots, too. Anyway, we all really liked this one. It was a very pleasant surprise. Plenty of action for fellows and nice, loyal love story for those who enjoy that as well.  For once, the storyline paints the French as heros and the dread English as cruel villains. And, well, the Scots are Scots and great as always!  The film was shot in Canada and the cinematography is very well done. I don't know why this didn't get better known when it was first released. Below are two videos from the film. One is a short cut of some scenes. The other is a bit of highlights, with an Enya song in the background. Enjoy!

They use historical reinactors in the battle scenes, which are very realistically filmed. To learn more about the movie, see Timeline