Very funny synchronicity re: the timing of me watching this, a movie about a white cook adapting trendy Filipino food items into bespoke plant-based recipes.
I was laughing every time they said the name of one of the dishes. Especially enjoyed the Chekhov's DTC chili crisp bit. The genre pastiche has been compared to Haynes' Far from Heaven. But I was thinking more, given the use of pastel and pink colours, a largely hidden-from-view mother (until she isn't), and theme…
Bird's favourite game!
Charles moves to the city and so do we. Carries the self- and national-mythologizing weight of a director still very young. Chabrol just couldn't resist having a thoroughly dissolute character named "Clovis", the king of the Franks who converted his people from paganism to Catholicism, and the hero Charles is ribbed with the Latin nickname "Carolus", i.e. Charlemagne. Some very nice tight framing of Blain and Mayniel to contrast their early and late interactions. Paris also allows…
On December 31, 1600, a group of merchants and explorers successfully petition Elizabeth I to form the East India Company, whose first voyage under James Lancaster sets off for the Spice Islands on April 22, 1601. Milton Rockwell, a vampire who's been here since 1601, is the latest incarnation of Lancaster, the first Anglo to venture out to make a killing in Asia.
Halfway around the world at around the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his remaining rivals at Sekigahara,…
