#Olga Montes

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i haven't been keeping on top of things, posting wise, so here's a dump of various request and variety stream images! If you'd like a Bunny or a Bride, I do take those commissions at Ko-Fi.

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Quantum Of Solace (2008)

[ofgreatart]

'the soul, this monument made of stones and grays, composed of water, winds, and tides, this monument of silence that encloses in its corners a thousand deserts and hides a thousand perspectives, but at its heart, there is a red rose, waiting and always opening🌹'

Philippe Fraisse: The Cinema of Terrence Malick, 'To the Wonder'

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QUANTUM OF SOLACE 2008

Olga Kurylenko (Camille Montes)

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Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes in Quantum of Solace (2008)

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Me acaban de mandar esto por whatsapp y literal lo voy a copiar y pegar tal cual porque está piola así como está

Películas documentales cero famosas pero de una belleza única ❤️. Imperdibles para repensar el valor esencial de la Educación pública y gratuita. CHETO CHETO https://vimeo.com/365404160 Contraseña SANTIAGO Cuando los santo vienen marchando: https://play.cine.ar/INCAA/produccion/9339 Después de Sarmiento https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCbeHOGb7os E alma fuerte https://vimeo.com/148952620 El cine argentino va a la escuela https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGkEVGNb8NE/ El Futuro es Nuestro https://vimeo.com/442422453?share=copy clave: franca En Obra https://youtu.be/cfhPXdJe9kY?si=46C1_KND15_Qww-a Escuela Monte https://vimeo.com/297076196 Escuela Trashumante: https://play.cine.ar/INCAA/produccion/4002 La escuela contra el margen https://vimeo.com/344701452 La escuela de la señorita Olga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJRzTcNWlTY LA TOMA https://vimeo.com/60175122 Contraseña latoma Los sentidos https://play.cine.ar/INCAA/produccion/3854 "ORQUESTA EL TAMBO. LA MÚSICA EN BUENAS MANOS" https://youtu.be/cjtxTEw_oig?si=tCuxb-tMFtU4sDbQ Palabras pendientes https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/581570892 clave: palabraspalabras Pabellón 4 https://vimeo.com/242912409?share=copy Recatate con los pibes https://play.cine.ar/INCAA/produccion/8222 Todos podemos bailar https://vimeo.com/113495016 Uso mis manos uso mis ideas https://youtu.be/0UpecWzmrhw?si=huhC2Ld67pHtKRpo Mañana martes 23/4 marchamos en todo el país, en CABA 15 hs el Cine sale del Gaumont

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Nosotros no nos encontrábamos

no nos buscábamos en los huertos con una manzana

entre los murmullos de la seda en naves de las iglesias

Siempre estuvimos uno dentro del otro

en el cuerpo de dios de doble cara

en las pinturas medievales de los sótanos de los museos

y en las fotos de nuestros padres

inocentes como papel

Nosotros -maestros de cruzarnos-

solo permanecimos uno frente al otro

y en espejos de la piel nos reflejamos enteros

el mundo se alejó en silencio y con el dedo en los labios

los bosques echaron raíces en el suelo

las ciudades guiadas por el olfato encontraron lugares

donde los hombres las construían infinitamente

los ríos entraron en los mares como los trenes en las estaciones

los montes inasibles cuajaron en las cuevas

Si yo soy un monte

tú eres una cueva dentro de mí

lugar en el monte donde no hay monte

lugar dentro de mí donde no estoy.

_ Olga Tokarczuk

Trad. Ada Trzeciakowska.

_ Katrien de Blauwer

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inspired by @beezonia here are some of the foolsuke personas (in random order)

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black bart (named after the western outlaw)

gentileschi (artemisia gentileschi - baroque painter tortured for answers at her rapist's trial)

giselle (titular ballet character)

charlotte (charlotte corday - the woman who assassinated jean paul marat)

orwell (george orwell - the author of 1984 and animal farm, best known for his political commentary)

dantés (edomund dantés - titular count of monte christo, taking revenge on his friends who framed him for a crime)

vasilisa (named after the russian fairy tale protag vasalisa the beautiful)

elena (aka olga of kiev, who was so angered by her husband's execution, she violently retaliated)

karnstein (carmilla karnstein - named after and based on the iconic lesbian vampire carmilla)

don quixote (named after the somewhat delusional main character of don quixote, who geniunely wishes to be a hero)

kuranosuke (ōishi kuranosuke - the leader of the 47 ronin, a classic tale of revenge and loyalty)

[aliciavance4228]

One Hundred Books

Decided to make this list in order to include in one post all the books that I found to be worth reading and would recommend to others. They're not in a specific order:

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

Dubliners by James Joyce

A Jounal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Trial by Kafka

Metamorphosis by Kafka

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dracula by Bram Stocker

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

1984 by George Orwell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Dune by Frank Herbert

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievski

Notes from the Underground by Dostoievski

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Pianist by Władisław Szpilman

Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann

The Idiot by Dostoievski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Insulted and Humiliated by Dostoievski

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Moby-Dick by Herman Meville

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievski

The Call of Cthulhu by Lovecraft

Dagon and other Macabre Tells by Lovecraft

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Shining by Stephen King

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Enlightened Cave by Max Blecher

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

The God Factory by Karel Čapek

The Tongue Set Free by Elias Canetti

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Selected Poems by Jorge Louis Borges

The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Plague by Albert Camus

Carrie by Stephen King

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Notre Dame of Paris by Victor Hugo

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Iliad by Homer

The Odyssey by Homer

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Tell-Tale Heart and other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

It by Stephen King

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilych

La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen

...gotta pin this post and edit it later, when I'll have more time to do that.

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Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

The Ukrainian - French 🇺🇦🇫🇷 Actress & Former Model Of International Cinema 🎥

Born On November 14th, 1979

She  is a Ukrainian and French actress and former model. Born and raised in Berdyansk, she moved to Paris at age 16 to pursue a modelling career. After starting her acting career in 2004, Kurylenko had her breakthrough film role in the action-thriller Hitman (2007). She gained recognition as Bond girl Camille Montes in the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008) and as Taskmaster in the superhero film Black Widow (2021).

Please Wish This Amazing Ukrainian - French🇺🇦🇫🇷 Actress Of Today's Cinema 🎥  A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

Ms. Olga Kurylenko🇺🇦🇫🇷 #OlgaKurylenko

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The Top 40 Most Popular Operas, Part 3 (#21 through #30)

A quick guide for newcomers to the genre, with links to online video recordings of complete performances, with English subtitles whenever possible.

Verdi's Il Trovatore

The second of Verdi's three great "middle period" tragedies (the other two being Rigoletto and La Traviata): a grand melodrama filled with famous melodies.

Studio film, 1957 (Mario del Monaco, Leyla Gencer, Ettore Bastianini, Fedora Barbieri; conducted by Fernando Previtali) (no subtitles; read the libretto in English translation here)

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

The most famous tragic opera in the bel canto style, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and featuring opera's most famous "mad scene."

Studio film, 1971 (Anna Moffo, Lajos Kozma, Giulio Fioravanti, Paolo Washington; conducted by Carlo Felice Cillario)

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The most famous example of verismo opera: brutal Italian realism from the turn of the 20th century. Jealousy, adultery, and violence among a troupe of traveling clowns.

Feature film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons, Alberto Rinaldi; conducted by Georges Prêtre)

Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Mozart's comic Singspiel (German opera with spoken dialogue) set amid a Turkish harem. What it lacks in political correctness it makes up for in outstanding music.

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielsen, Lillian Watson, Lars Magnusson, Kurt Moll, Oliver Tobias; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

A Verdi tragedy of forbidden love and political intrigue, inspired by the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden.

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo, Annamaria Chiuri, Eun Yee You; conducted by Riccardo Chailly) (click CC for subtitles)

Part I, Part II

Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)

A half-comic, half-tragic fantasy opera based on the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, in which the author becomes the protagonist of his own stories of ill-fated love.

Opéra de Monte-Carlo, 2018 (Juan Diego Flórez, Olga Peretyatko, Nicolas Courjal, Sophie Marilley; conducted by Jacques Lacombe) (click CC and choose English in "Auto-translate" under "Settings" for subtitles)

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

An early and particularly accessible work of Wagner, based on the legend of a phantom ship doomed to sail the seas until its captain finds a faithful bride.

Savolinna Opera, 1989 (Franz Grundheber, Hildegard Behrens, Ramiro Sirkiä, Matti Salminen; conducted by Leif Segerstam) (click CC for subtitles)

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

A one-act drama of adultery and scorned love among Sicilian peasants, second only to Pagliacci (with which it's often paired in a double bill) as the most famous verismo opera.

St. Petersburg Opera, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin, Nikolay Kopylov, Ekaterina Egorova, Nina Romanova; conducted by Mikhail Tatarnikov)

Verdi's Falstaff

Verdi's final opera, a "mighty burst of laughter" based on Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Studio film, 1979 (Gabriel Bacquier, Karan Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Marta Szirmay, Jutta Renate Ihloff, Max René Cosotti; conducted by Georg Solti) (click CC for subtitles)

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

Verdi's second-to-last great Shakespearean opera, based on the tragedy of the Moor of Venice.

Teatro alla Scala, 2001 (Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci, Barbara Frittoli; conducted by Riccardo Muti)

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Quantum Of Solace (2008)

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Erich von Stroheim and Maude George in Foolish Wives (Erich von Stroheim, 1922)

Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch, Rudolph Christians, Dale Fuller, Albert Edmondson, Cesare Gravina, Malvina Polo, C.J. Allen. Screenplay: Erich von Stroheim; titles: Marian Ainslee, Walter Anthony. Cinematography: William H. Daniels, Ben F. Reynolds. Art direction: Richard Day, Elmer Sheehy, Van Alstein. Film editing: Arthur Ripley. 

Erich von Stroheim's reach exceeded Hollywood's grasp, though not without some initial encouragement by the studio heads. Universal eagerly promoted Foolish Wives as "the first million-dollar movie," and most of that sum was apparent on screen: the huge sets re-creating Monte Carlo that were built on the Monterey Peninsula in California. Some of it, too, wasn't visible: Stroheim reportedly insisted on having underwear created for his actors bearing the monograms of their characters. But there were limits to what the studio would do for the director: When Rudolph Christians, a key actor in the film, died in mid-filming, Stroheim proposed that his scenes be reshot with his stand-in, Robert Edeson, but was forced to give in to the studio's work-around: Edeson played the role in the remaining scenes with his back to the camera. But mostly, the studio's resistance was to Stroheim's vision of a movie that would run somewhere between six and 10 hours and be shown on two consecutive nights. He was forced to settle for a three-and-a-half-hour version, which was subsequently cut again under the instructions of the New York censors. More cuts by the studio followed after the film was a box office disappointment, so that what we see today is a reconstruction cobbled together from existing versions. But after that, what we have is a juicy, kinky melodrama about decadent Europe trying to corrupt innocent America. Stroheim plays a con man pretending to be an exiled Russian aristocrat, Count Sergius Karamzin, living with two women he says are his cousins: the phony princesses Olga Petchnikoff (Maude George) and Vera Petchnikoff (Mae Busch). They're out to milk whatever cash they can from suckers at Monte Carlo, and Sergius sets his sights on Helen Hughes (Miss DuPont), the wife of an American diplomat (Christians). In his down time from that seduction, he also pursues, with purely carnal intent, a hotel maid (Dale Fuller) and the pretty but mentally challenged daughter (Malvina Polo) of the man who counterfeits the money Sergius uses to bilk gamblers at the casino. There's a spectacular storm and an even more spectacular fire, too, before Sergius gets perhaps more than what's coming to him. Even in its truncated version, Foolish Wives is almost too much. 

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oiii, tudo bem? feliz festas!!

passei pra dizer que amo, amo mto a sua escrita (e capas também, claro!). Adoro a atmosfera que você consegue passar com as palavras e fiquei curiosa se, talvez, você tivesse alguns escritores a qual se inspira. Sempre gosto de conhecer autores novos, mas sou péssima pra procurar livros ;-;

Teria algumas indicações de livros para esse ratinho de livraria perdido?

Bjs!!

OIE!! BOAS FESTAS PRA VOCÊ TAMBÉM, CHUCHU!! espero que coma e aproveite bastante esse final de ano!

muito obrigado!!! é tão >BOM< ler e saber disso, de verdade! fico feliz demais que acompanhe o que eu escrevo e goste! tô toda quentinha e tchola 🩷 muito obrigado mesmo! E CLARO QUE EU POSSO! confesso que esse final de ano me deixou molenga pra ler uns livros que tenho guardado, mas vou te indicar alguns com o maior prazer!

ENTÃO! os escritores que mais me inspiram são: 1. Stephen King (acho que nem é novidade do jeito que eu sou fissurada por terror TwT). 2. Clive Barker, 3. Virginia Woolf, 4. Neil Gaiman, 5. Raphael Montes, 6. Edgar Allan Poe, 7. Fiodor Dostoiévski, 8. Haruki Murakami!!!!

agora os livros que eu dou uma recomendada (que acho que valem a pena ler, porque eu gostei TwT): 1. Declínio de um homem (Osamu Dazai), 2. O estranho misterioso (Mark Twain), 3. O Vilarejo (Raphael Montes), 4. Seres Mágicos e Histórias Sombrias (Neil Gaiman & ++), 5. Sobre os ossos dos mortos (Olga Tokarczuk), 6. O Silêncio dos Inocentes (Thomas Harris), 7. Crônica do Pássaro de Corda (Murakami), 8. Orgulho e Preconceito (amo esse romancezinho😭😭😭), 9. Nevernight (AMO ESSA FANTASIA.), 10. Salem's Lot (Stephen King).... TIPO ASSIM EU ESPERO QUE VC GOSTE DE ALGJM DESSES E ETC. . . . .... . se quiser mais eu tenho uma lista enorme 💌🧁 OBRIGADO PELA ASK!!!

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QUANTUM OF SOLACE 2008

Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes

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Olga Smirnova as Juliet Capulet and Francesco Resch as Romeo Montague, "Romeo and Juliet", choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Sergei Prokofiev, scenography by Ernest Pignon-Ernest, costume by Jérôme Kaplan. Based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare, 2023 Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Spain Tour, Teatro de la Maestranza, Valencia, Spain (January 11-12)

Photographer Alice Blangero

Photographer Alice Blangero