#Saint Maurice VS

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Février MMXXIV

Films

Maigret voit rouge (1963) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Michel Constantin, Vittorio Sanipoli, Paul Frankeur, Guy Decomble, Françoise Fabian, Paulette Dubost, Laurence Badie, Roland Armontel et Jacques Dynam

L’Étau (Topaz) (1969) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor, Karin Dor, John Vernon, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret et John Forsythe

Flic Story (1975) de Jacques Deray avec Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Renato Salvatori, Claudine Auger, Maurice Biraud, André Pousse, Mario David et Paul Crauchet

Poupoupidou (2011) de Gérald Hustache-Mathieu avec Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Joséphine de Meaux, Arsinée Khanjian, Clara Ponsot et Éric Ruf

Air Force One (1997) de Wolfgang Petersen avec Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson, Liesel Matthews, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy et Dean Stockwell

Bob Marley: One Love (2024) de Reinaldo Marcus Green avec Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Henry Douthwaite, Sevana, Hector Lewis et Tosin Cole

Sister Act (1992) d'Emile Ardolino avec Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Harvey Keitel, Bill Nunn et Robert Miranda

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) d'Alexandre Astier et Louis Clichy avec Roger Carel, Lorànt Deutsch, Guillaume Briat, Alexandre Astier, Alain Chabat, Élie Semoun, Géraldine Nakache, Artus de Penguern, Lionnel Astier et François Morel

Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024) de Stefano Mordini avec Riccardo Scamarcio, Daniel Brühl, Volker Bruch, Katie Clarkson-Hill, Esther Garrel, Gianmaria Martini : Hannu Mikkola et Haley Bennett

Buster (1988) de David Green avec Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb, Stephanie Lawrence, Ellie Beaven, Michael Attwell, Ralph Brown et Anthony Quayle

Laura (1944) d'Otto Preminger avec Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson, Dorothy Adams et Lane Chandler

Séries

Affaires sensibles

Présidentielle de 1995 : un scandale d'Etat - Michèle Mouton, le Groupe B et les Finlandais volants - Les Ecoutes de la République - La secte du temple solaire, le drame d’une société secrète - Munich 1972 : destin tragique d'un rêve olympique - Les révoltés des Jeux olympiques - Le crash de la Germanwings - Alexandre Litvinenko, victime d’un permis de tuer - Martin Luther King : la naissance d’une icône - Martin Luther King : du rêve au cauchemar - Dans l'ombre de Gérard Lebovici - Macron 2017, le traitre méthodique - Kurt Cobain, portrait d’une génération - Crash au mont Saint Odile

Maguy Saison 1

Rose et Marguerite, c'est le bouquet - Babar et Bécassine se mènent en bateau - Docteur j'abuse - L'union fait le divorce - L'annonce faite à Maguy - Le coupe-Georges - Amoral, morale et demie - Cinquante bougies, ça vous éteint ! - A visage redécouvert'' - Le serment d'hypocrite - Tu me trompes ou je me trompe ? - Comment boire sans déboires - Un veuf brouillé - Le père Noël dans ses petits souliers - L'emprunt ruse - Tous les couples sont permis - L'amant de la famille - Travail, famille, pas triste - Blague de fiançailles - Macho, boulot, dodo - Mi-flic, mi-raisin - Trop polyvalent pour être honnête - La traîtresse de maison - Les trois font la paire - Un grain peut en cacher un autre - La quittance déloyale - Belle-mère, tel fils - Manège à quatre - Comme un neveu sur la soupe - Toutou, mais pas ça ! - A corde et à cri - Jamais deux sans quatre - L'amant comme il respire - Le chômage, ça vous travaille ? - La faillite nous voilà ! - Le divin divan - Toubib or not toubib - L'écolo est fini - Loto, route du bonheur

La croisière s'amuse Saison 2

Un contrat en or - Le Magicien - Copie confuse - Un travail d'équipe - Accrochez-vous au bastingage - Le Célèbre Triangle - Joyeux Anniversaire : première partie - Il y a si longtemps déjà - Passion - Un coup de roulis - Docteur, vous êtes fou - La Petite Illusion - Donne moi ma chance - Qui vivra verra - Réunion de travail : deuxième partie - Méfiez vous de votre meilleure amie - Vague à l'âme - L'amour est aveugle - Chassé croisé

Downton Abbey Saison 6

À l'aube d'un nouveau monde - Le Piège des émotions - En pleine effervescence - Une histoire moderne - Plus de peur que de mal - En toute franchise - Aller de l'avant - Les Sœurs ennemies - Le Plus Beau des cadeaux

Kaamelott Livre IV

Le Jeu de la guerre - Le Rêve d’Ygerne - Les Chaperons - L’Habitué - Le Camp romain - L’Usurpateur - Loth et le Graal - Le Paladin - Perceval fait ritournelle - La Dame et le Lac - Beaucoup de bruit pour rien - L’Ultimatum - Le Oud II - La Répétition - Le Discours - Le Choix de Gauvain - Fluctuat nec mergitur - Le Face-à-face : première partie - Le Face-à-face : deuxième partie - L’Entente cordiale - L’Approbation - Alone in the Dark II - La Blessure d’Yvain - Corpore sano II - L’Enchanteur - Les Bien Nommés - La Prisonnière - Les Paris III - Les Plaques de dissimulation - Le Vice de forme - Le Renoncement première partie - Le Renoncement deuxième partie - L’Inspiration - Les Endettés - Double Dragon - Le Sauvetage - Le Désordre et la Nuit

Coffre à Catch

#153 : Finlay, le retour ! - #154 : Gloire aux Heels ! - #155 : Les débuts historiques de Sheamus ! - #156 : Les Bella Twins arrivent à la ECW ! - #18 ; CM Punk continue d'impressionner & quelqu'un fait du vélo ! - #12 : Le Push de CM Punk + Bsahtek le Bikini !

Castle Saison 4

Sexpionnage - Jeux de pouvoir - Une vie de chien - Le Papillon Blue - Pandore, première partie - Pandore, deuxième partie - Il était une fois un crime - Danse avec la mort - 47 secondes - Au service de sa majesté - Chasseurs de têtes - Mort vivant - Jusqu'à la mort s'il le faut

Les Brigades du Tigre Saison 1

Ce siècle avait sept ans… - Nez de chien - Les Vautours - Visite incognito - La Confrérie des loups - La Main noire

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 2, 6

Incident de parcours - Pièce de musée - Reconnaissance

The Grand Tour Saison 5

Trop de sable

La ville Noire

Première partie - Deuxième partie

Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie Saison 3

Mortel Karma

Spectacles

Monsieur chasse (1978) de Alain Feydeau avec Michel Roux, William Sabatier, Françoise Fleury, Yvonne Gaudeau, Pierre Mirat, Xavier Vanderberghe, Michel Mayou, Bernard Durand et Roland Oberlin

La Bagatelle (1977) de Jean Meyer avec Amarande, Patrick Préjean, Jacques Balutin, Brigitte Chamarande Bel, René Lefevre, Pierre Aufrey et Didier Roussel

Femmes en colère (2023) de Stéphane Hillel avec Lisa Martino, Gilles Kneusé, Hugo Lebreton, Nathalie Boutefeu, Fabrice de la Villehervé, Sophie Artur, Clément Koch, Magali Lange, Aude Thirion et Béatrice Michel

La Pélerine écossaise (1972) de Sacha Guitry avec Jean Piat, Geneviève Casile, Philippe Etesse, Robert Manuel, Raymond Baillet, Françoise Petit, Alain Souchères, Janine Roux et Ly Sary

Livres

Piège de chaleur de Richard Castle

Spirou et Fantasio, tome 15 : Z comme Zorglub de André Franquin, Jidéhem et Greg

Kaamelott, tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant d'Alexandre Astier, Benoît Bekaert et Steven Dupré

OSS 117 : Tactique Arctique de Jean Bruce

Astérix, tome 17 : Le Domaine des dieux de René Goscinny et Albert Uderzo

#mediatheque #fevrier24

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Thanks @sinni-ok-sessi for the tag! :D

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Going to sort these by fandom and type of WIP:

Dead Poets Society:

Vesuvius - Finished, but being expanded haha. (Sorry to anyone who has seen the absolute state of my Anderperry tag recently because I haven't shut up about this WIP in a solid month.)

a gleam of light - Still planning, but I have bits written!

southward bound - WIP

same x3 - Will never be finished but every year or so I pop in and add another chapter

Mini 15-years-later fluff - WIP

Much Ado AU - WIP

DMBJ:

amhrán na farraige - WIP (Will I finish it? Well. I would like to.)

The Message and the Messenger - WIP, also barely planned

Zhang Qiling and the Train to Nowhere - WIP

silly idol au - WIA (Work Is Abandoned)

little scraps of light - WIA unless I get hit with another wave of interest in Stray

unnamed silly Princess Bride-esque AU - WIA

nothing much in a name

Qi Hun/Hikaru no Go:

ex astris, scientia - to finish this I would probably have to finish TOS first and I don't know if I have that effort in me tbh

Yu Liang vs. The World - semi WIA

voulez-vous... aha? - WIA

Haikyuu! (These are all WIAs but I like to look at them and believe that I can finish them one day lol. Maybe when the film comes out):

exothermicity

MQG (Maurice Quill Gaming)

and the sun comes up again

THE SUMMER WILL NOT END

The God's Long Way Home

made for two

The Detectives' Guide to Love, Crime, and Cybersecurity

Miscellaneous:

All's Fair in Love and Neurosurgery

O, My Saint!

MOURNING MAN

Tagging @echosghoast, @whisper-my-serenade, and any other writing mutuals (or non-mutuals!) who want to do this!

#htoo writes #dead poets society #dmbj #qi hun #haikyuu #sorry to anyone in these tags - just trying to organise my stuff! ignore! #anyway as you can see i have chronic Cannot Finish A WIP For The Life Of Me So Help Me God syndrome

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Anonymous asked: Have you watched Lupin? What did you think? (And are you a fan of the books or other adaptations of the character?)

The short answer is yes, I have seen Lupin on Netflix. Overall I enjoyed it so long as I suspended my disbelief at certain things.

Unfortunately it took being struck down by Covid and being bedridden for me to actually to binge watch the whole series. So I was behind the curve when my friends, French and those outside of France, started to talk about it around me. I had to beg them not to give away spoilers until I had seen it all.

It did surprise me that it won rave widespread reviews outside France because usually French drama series don’t travel very well outside of France. I’m sure even Netflix had no idea how successful it would be for them. I’m sure being in Covid lockdown had something to do with it. In any case I don’t begrudge its success as it’s well earned.

However I wasn’t too surprised that within France itself the French reviews were decidely mixed and divisive. The critic at Le Point painfully hit the nail on the head when he wrote, “Le plus gros défaut de l'ensemble reste la pauvreté des personnages, tous unidimensionnels, caricaturaux et aussi épais que du papier à cigarette.“ - loosely translated as, ‘the biggest flaw of the whole thing remains the poverty of the characters, all one-dimensional, cartoonish and as thick as cigarette paper’.

There’s a growing amount of good French stuff on TV and streaming services but a non-French audience will not have had the chance to have seen all of it yet. I can think of any number of French television drama/dramedy/cmedy series that are much better than Lupin with better plots, characters, and even a truer perspective of French society and even modern day France (Dix pour cent (Call My Agent!), Le Bureau des Légendes, Engrenages, Baron Noir, and Paris Police 1900). But you would be hard pressed to find anything that comes close to Lupin just for the sake of something fun to watch during the Covid lockdown.

What makes the current generation of home made French television series so interesting is how much of it is a reflection of France’s own anxieities about itself and its role in a increasingly English speaking dominating world. In a funny way it sees itself as defiant plucky Asterix fighting off the Roman American cultural hordes from totally invading their Francophone culture.

For sure, it has societal and racial issues stemming from its colonial legacy and issues of immigration and integration (France has the largest Muslim population in Europe). However it seems to want to ‘resolve’ these issues through the almost sacramental adherence to French secularist ideals rather than American inspired ideas of social justice and equity. There’s always been something very admirable about the French - from the time of General de Gaulle and perhaps before - always swinging from snooty ambivalence to outright antipathy towards the influence of American culture ‘americanising’ French culture (no to Walmarts or fast food chains for example).

Is it any wonder then that Netflix’s ill-conceived American series ‘Emily in Paris’ was widely hated and mocked within France for just perpetuating those lazy American tropes of Paris and French culture?

Personally I know Francophile Americans, long resident in Paris, who were frankly embarrassed and spent a lot of time apologising to their French friends. I have one American friend who has told me that she was so mad that she would have blind folded Emily and shoved her hard in the car boot and drive her all the way to the poorest of the banlieues in the grimey crime saturated suburbs of Paris - Seine-Saint-Denis came to mind - and dump her preening arse there. She would slap her and tell the spoilt entitied brat to make her own way back home - you know, to her spacious apartment in one of the most expensive arrondissements of Paris that of course(!) any American intern working for French marketing firms can afford.

I digress. My apologies. Watching this God awful show gives me PTSD.

Onto Lupin.

Thankfully Lupin doesn’t try to play to non-French tropes of what Paris is or isn’t. It does skim the surface of current discontents within French culture and society (race, class, power, and money) but ever so lightly so as to not get in the way of just spinning a good crowd pleasing yarn. It invites you to have fun and not to think too much. I have to be honest and say I enjoyed it as long as I suspended my disbelief here and there.

Lupin refers of course to the character Arsène Lupin, the French gentleman thief who stole jewellery from Parisian haute bourgeois and aristocracy at the turn of the century. Lupin, as written in the novels and short stories by Maurice Leblanc between 1905 and his death in 1941, was the archetypical anti-hero, a Robin Hood who stole from those who deserved it but kept the loot himself. He was often portrayed often a force for good, while operating on the wrong side of the law.

Lupin never really made much of an impact outside of France as he had within France where is revered with many French film and television adaptations. In England, we already had a Lupin type character in the form of A.J. Raffles, a cricket playing gentleman thief with his aristocratic side kick, Bunny. E.W. Horning’s stories of Raffles’ daring heists proved to be quite popular with the British public when Raffles first appeared on the scene in 1898. And even later Leslie Charteris’ The Saint took over the mantle from Raffles as the gentleman thief/adventuring Robin Hood.

I think Hollywood tried to introduce him to an English speaking audience (legendary actor John Barrymore even played him) but he didn’t really take off and eventually they found their gentleman thief archetype in Sir Charles Lytton aka The Phantom (played by David Niven and Christopher Plummer) in the Pink Panther movies. So Lupin never got the English audience he deserved.

I first got wind of who Arsène Lupin was when I was growing up in Japan as a child. As strange as it sounds Lupin was big in Japan especially after World War Two. The Japanese did their own take on the Lupin character using Japanese actors and plot lines but it was Lupin.

I don’t know how exactly but I remember watching these scratchy DVDs of these Lupin inspired films. I think it was one of my parents’ Japanese friends who was mad for all things Lupin and he had studied French literature in France. Jogging my memory I now recall these black & white films were done in the 1950s. One starred Keiji Sada and the other version I remember was with Eija Okada (he was in Resnais’ classic film, Hiroshima Mon Amour) as Arsene Lupin called (I think) Kao-no Nai Otoko. I didn’t understand most of it at the time because it was all in Japanese and my Japanese (at the time) was pitiful, but it looked fun.

There was even a Japanese manga version of Lupin which was called Lupin III, - so named because he was the grandson of the real Arsène Lupin.

The 1960s manga series spawned generations of TV series which I do remember watching and finding it terribly exciting if somewhat confusing.

It was French expatriate friends whom my family knew that introduced me to the real Arsène Lupin. They had a few of the books authored by Maurice Leblanc. It was in French so I read them to improve my French but enjoyed the story along the way.

I also remember them showing me scratchy episodes of the 1970s Franco-German TV series ‘Arsène Lupin’ with the monocle wearing Georges Descrières in the lead role. It was a classical re-telling of the adventures of the aristocratic gentleman-burglar and very family friendly viewing. I don’t really remember much of it to be honest.

It was some years before I actually started to read more of the Maurice Leblanc’s novels and short stories collection. I have them all now. I was a teen and I remember being stuck in a snowed in a Swiss Alpine chalet and with nothing else to do but pull out a few dog eared books from the bookshelves belonging to our French host and read to pass the time.

I read Les Dents du tigre, Arsène Lupin vs Herlock Sholmes, and Les Huit Coups de l'horloge and thoroughly enjoyed them in the original French. I was already reading classic detective and mystery novels (Sherlock Holmes, Poirot etc) so it was natural to read the adventures of Arsène Lupin.

I haven’t got around to reading all the novels and short stories but I have read most of them and I enjoyed them all immensely. In the same way Conan Doyle, through Holmes and Watson, manages to conjure a convincing picture of late Victorian and early Edwardian England, so Leblanc manages to give us a taste of Belle Epoque France through the eyes of his suave gentleman-thief, Arsène Lupin.

Indeed it's a lot like reading Sherlock Holmes in that you're always trying to figure out how he did it, but the difference is that you are rooting for the bad guy. You can’t help but be drawn to this gentleman thief who is charming, comic, playful, and romantic and generous. Lupin is not an intellectual puzzle-solver but first a master criminal, later a detective helper, who maintains his curious ethics throughout his adventures. In this regard he is very much the anti-Sherlock Holmes; and I wasn’t disappointed when I actually read the story where Lupin faces off with Holmes himself. Brilliant!

I’ve also seen the 2004 French movie with Romain Duris in the Lupin lead role and it also starred the majestic Kristin Scott Thomas and the sexy Eva Green.

It was a decent adventure flick and it was a clear confluence of different Lupin novels (The Queen's Necklace (introducing Lupin's childhood), The Hollow Needle (where the treasure is the macguffin of the story), The Arrest of Arsène Lupin (the gala on the ship as a backdrop) and Josephine Balsamo, (one of Lupin’s most memorable opponents in the The Countess Of Cagliostro).

Romaine Duris, a fine classical actor, was I felt miscast because he didn’t have Lupin’s levity of wit and be at ease within himself. I love Duris in his other films but in Arsène Lupin and even in his other film, Moliere, he seemed ill at ease with the role. Perhaps that’s just me.

The latest Netflix adaptation (or reimagining to be more precise) is a welcome addition to the world of Arsène Lupin.If you don’t over-think it, it’s bags of fun.

Omar Sy is immensely likeable. Sy is a deservedly a big star in France - he won the best actor César for “The Intouchables,” an international hit - and has played forgettable secondary characters in big-budget American special effects movies (he was Chris Pratt’s assistant in “Jurassic World” and a minor mutant in “X-Men: Days of Future Past”). It was reportedly his desire to play Arsène Lupin, whom he’s compared to James Bond (“fun, funny, elegant”), that led to the series, created by British writer George Kay. And it is on his charm that the series largely, though not entirely, rests.

So the basic story revolves around a jewellery heist. Sy plays Assane Diop, a first-generation French-Senegalese man in contemporary Paris. A collection of Lupin stories, a gift from his father - whose undeserved fate Assane set himself to avenge in long-delayed, Count of Monte Cristo style upon a criminal tycoon - has made the actual Lupin books a foundation of his life and profitably illicit career. This fan-ship goes as far as borrowing practical ideas from the stories and constructing aliases out of anagrams of “Arsene Lupin,” a habit that will attract the interest of a low-level police detective (Soufiane Guerrab as Youssef Guedira) who shares Assane’s love of the books. (That the detective also shares an initial with Lupin’s own adversary, Inspector Ganimard, is possibly not a coincidence.)

Among the many comic delights of Lupin, is an unspoken one. Time and again, the show’s hero, master thief Assane Diop is able to slip into a place unnoticed, or by assuming a minor disguise that prevents witnesses from providing an accurate description of him to law enforcement.

Why is this funny?

Because Omar Sy is six feet three (and, since most actors are short, seems even taller), is roughly as wide as soccer pitch, and is memorable even before he flashes his infectious million-Euro smile. This is not a man for whom anonymity should be possible - even allowing for racial bias in a majority-white country, Assane would be memorable and distinctive - and Lupin seems cheekily aware of this. Like the various incredible sleights of hand Assane deploys to pull off his thefts and escapes, his ability to be anyone, anywhere, is treated more as a superpower than as something even the world’s greatest criminal would be able to pull off.

At one point, when he’s slated for a cable news appearance as a much older man, we learn that Assane is also a master of disguise. The revelation of this skill arrives with a wink in the show, and it feels pointless to ask where he learned it, or how he affords movie-quality latex and makeup. Or rather, asking the question feels wrong.

We know this is impossible, the show seems to be asking its viewers again and again, but isn’t it so much fun?

The performances and the production - it has that particularly European filmic quality of feeling natural even when it gets stylish - keep the series warm even as the plot is made up of incredulous contraptions that require everything to go right at just the right time and for human psychology to be 100% predictable. Its physics are classical rather than quantum, one might say, and like the world itself, which becomes more curious the deeper you peer into things, it is best handled along the surface. You do not want to take too much time working out the likelihood of any of this happening. Just go along for the ride.

Somehow, though, it all works because Sy is so magnetic and charming that questioning plot logic feels wildly besides the point. Though he never looks appreciably different in his various aliases (including one ill-conceived live-TV appearance done under old-man makeup and a thick beard), he changes his posture and voice ( if you watch it in French that is) enough to allow for the willing suspension of disbelief, in the same way that any lead actor as Superman has to do when playing Clark Kent. But Sy and the show are at their strongest when Assane is just being his own Superman self, utterly relaxed and confident in his own skin, and so captivating that his ex-partner, Claire, can’t really resist him despite ample reason to.

If Assane seems practically perfect in every way, he is not perfectly perfect. His most obvious failing is that his criminal shenanigans and revenging make him less than reliable in his daily life, affecting his relationships with ex-partner Claire (Ludivine Sagnier, whom non-French audiences might recognise from “The Young Pope” and “The New Pope”), who despairs of his inability to show up on time to see his son Raoul (Etan Simon). Like Sy, Sagnier brings a lot of soul to her part - though onscreen far less, she’s as important as Sy to the series’ success - and the two actors have great chemistry. Also impressive and key to creating sympathy are the actors who play their flashback teenage selves, Mamadou Haidara and Ludmilla Makowski. Really, you could do away with action elements and build a series around them.

This is a pity because Lupin often fumbles its emotional reveals in other parts - the story of Diop being torn between his job and his family feels like wheel-spinning, rather than genuine emotional intrigue.

Soufiane Guerrab is wasted in the Young Detective Consumed by the Case role and spends most of this season pinning colour printouts of book covers to cork boards and getting waved off by his colleagues, who are all blinded or otherwise hampered by careerism.

But to my mind the weakest link is the villain himself and his daughter. Veteran actor Hervé Pierre hams it up as Hubert Pellegrini, a business tycoon who is the patriarch of the Pellegrini family. He just comes across as animated cartoon villain with no character depth (think moustache twirling Russian villain, Boris Badenov, in the Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon shows). He just emotes anger a lot without any nuance or hint of complexity.

Even Clotilde Hesme who plays the daughter who is unaware of her father’s criminal tendencies is miscast. For the record I adore Clotilde Hesme as she one of France’s most talented classical actresses (that non-French outsiders will not have heard of). She is a classically theatre trained actress and is one of the best stage actresses of her generation that I have ever seen. I’ve seen her in plays where she is just mesmerising. She has said before that she’s more comfortable on the stage than she is on the screen. And when she has been on screen she still has been a powerful presence. She’s actually won a César too. Here in Lupin, she seems to have no agency and looks bored with nothing really to do.I really hope they give her more scenes in the next part of Lupin.

The series is at its best when following Diop enacting his plans, and when revealing each one from a different vantage, making us privy to every moving part like a magician revealing his secrets. The show captures the momentum of a clockwork heist, the tension of sudden obstacles and the ingenuity of improvised responses, with thrilling precision (especially in “Chapter 1 - Le Collier de la reine,” directed by Now You See Me’s Louis Leterrier).

Lupin is also politically incisive when it wants to be; it brings to mind Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated 2019 film Les Misérables, which adapted the broad strokes of Victor Hugo’s novel about the 1832 Paris Rebellion, and modernised the story by focusing on the police brutality faced by non-white Parisians.

Lupin opens with Diop disguised as cleaning staff and entering the Louvre after-hours, alongside dozens of forgotten, anonymous non-white workers as they pass by “La Liberté guidant le people,” Eugène Delacroix’s famous painting of the July Revolution of 1830 which replaced France’s hereditary rule with popular sovereignty.

Before any semblance of plot or character, Lupin centres broken ideals and promises unkept (without giving too much away, the show’s primary villain has much more nationalistic view of French culture and history which merely adds to a cartoonish caricature than a complex character). The rest of the episode is about valuable jewels once owned by Marie Antionette - one of the most recognisable symbols of wealth and extravagance in times of extreme poverty - which are put up for auction by the Pelligrini family, and bid on by other wealthy collectors with bottomless purses and no sense of irony.

Granted, beyond this auction subplot, explorations of race and class are largely limited to individual interactions, but the show continues to refer back to (and implicitly comment on) its source material in ways that wink at the audience. An elderly, unassuming target of Diop’s schemes seems like an unlikely victim at first - Diop, though he acts in his own self-interest, usually displays a moral compass - until this victim reveals the colonial origins of her wealth, immediately re-contextualising the ethics of the situation, in a manner that Leblanc’s stories did not. (The show is yet to apply this lens to Arsène Lupin himself, who Diop treats with reverence, but that’s a secondary concern since Lupin is entirely fictional in-world).

Barring some nagging structural problems - like cutting to flashbacks when things are getting exciting, or epilogues that feel ten minutes too long - Lupin mostly works. It plants a few personal seeds early on, which it keeps hinting at without fully addressing, but by the time its scattered elements come into focus, the show finally figures out how to weave them together, and delivers a mid-season cliffhanger that renders many of these flaws irrelevant.

Lupin manages to have fun even with an antiquated premise - the story of a suave con-man who charms his way through high-profile robberies - while adding just enough new spin on the concept to feel refreshing. Omar Sy may not have much to work with, but his alluring presence makes Assane Diop feel like a worthy successor to Arsène Lupin.

Lupin isn’t going to win César, BAFTA, or Emmy awards, or even turn heads for its ability to develop tertiary or even secondary plots or characters - that doesn’t really matter. You’re there to see a difficult hero be difficult and heroic - everyone else is there to be charmed, vexed, or eluded by them. Sy’s performance bounds off the screen, and is almost musical. He floats through scenes like he glides over the roofs and through the back alleys of Paris; he outmanoeuvres his foes with superior literary references and sheer athleticism. He is irresistible and also good at everything he tries, even kidnapping.

I would encourage anyone to watch Lupin for a fun care free ride. But the only caveat I would make is watch it in the original French.

If you don’t know French then put on the subtitles to understand (that’s what they are there for). The real crime is to watch this (or any film or television series) dubbed in a foreign language. It’s disrespectful to the actors and film makers and it’s silly because it’s comical to watch something dubbed over.

Please watch it in the original French.

Then go and read the books. You won’t regret it.

Thanks for your question.

#question #ask #lupin #omar sy #netflix #tv show #culture #personal #arsene lupin #japan #maurice leblanc #france #french #society #arts

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

50 New Operas In 2021, By The Numbers

So, uh, yeah. 50 operas through May 2, 2021. By comparison: in the entire year of 2020, I experienced 52 new-to-me operas. We’re barely a third of the way through 2021 and I’ve already almost matched that.

Some Stats:

Video vs. Audio:

Video: 40

Audio: 10

Breakdown by language:

French: 25

Italian: 12

English: 2

German: 6

Russian: 4

Danish: 1

Breakdown by century of premiere:

17th: 3

18th: 4

19th: 28

20th: 14

Multiple centuries: 1 (17th, 18th, and 21st centuries for The Secret Life of Paintings because of the issue of the music’s original premieres versus the premiere of this)

Operas by first-time-for-me composers vs. not:

First time: 24 (by 23 composers)

Not: 25 (by 16 composers)

In between: 1 (The Secret Life of Paintings contains music by Vivaldi, and I have never seen any of his operas, but I have seen both Handel and Monteverdi operas)

Total: 50 operas by 40 composers 

Adam, Adolphe*

Le postillon de Lonjumeau (The Postilion of Lonjumeau)

Alfano, Franco*

Cyrano de Bergerac

Auber, Daniel François Esprit*

Fra Diavolo (Brother Diavolo)

Gustave III, ou le bal masqué (Gustave III, or The Masked Ball)*

Borodin, Alexander*

Knyaz Igor (Prince Igor)

Busoni, Ferruccio*

Doktor Faust (Doctor Faust)

Caccini, Francesca*

La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from Alcina’s Island)*

Chabrier, Emmanuel*

L’étoile (The Star)

Charpentier, Gustave*

Louise

Donizetti, Gaetano

Poliuto

Dukas, Paul*

Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard)

von Flotow, Friedrich*

Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond (Martha, or The Market at Richmond)

Godard, Benjamin*

Dante*

Gounod, Charles François

La colombe (The Dove)*

Grétry, André*

Richard Cœur-de-lion (Richard the Lionheart)

Hahn, Reynaldo*

Ô mon bel inconnu (Oh, my beautiful unknown one)*

Halévy, Fromental

La reine de Chypre (The Queen of Cyprus)*

Handel, George Frideric

Rodelinda, regina de’Longobardi (Rodelinda, Queen of the Lombards)

Semele

Hervé (real name: Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger)*

Mam’zelle Nitouche

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane)

Lortzing, Albert*

Zar und Zimmermann (Czar and Carpenter)

Lully, Jean-Baptiste*

Armide

Massenet, Jules

Don César de Bazan*

Don Quichotte (Don Quixote)

Le jongleur de Notre-Dame (The Juggler of Our Lady)

Sapho*

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

L’étoile du nord (The North Star)

Monteverdi, Claudio

L’Orfeo (Orpheus)

Nielsen, Carl*

Maskarade (Masquerade)

Offenbach, Jacques

La belle Hélène (The Beautiful Helen)

La vie parisienne (The Parisian Life)

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista*

La serva padrona (The Servant Girl Turned Mistress)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Igrok (The Gambler)

Ravel, Maurice*

L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour)

Reynolds, Peter*

Sands of Time*

Rossini, Gioachino

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Woman in Algiers)

Saariaho, Kaija*

L’amour de loin (Love from Afar)- #50!!! (May 2, 2021)

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Henry VIII

Le timbre d’argent (The Silver Bell)*

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Orleanskaja deva (The Maid of Orléans)

Pikovaya dama (Pique Dame/The Queen of Spades)

Various Composers

The Secret Life of Paintings (pastiche of excerpts from operas by George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, and Antonio Vivaldi)

Verdi, Giuseppe

Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc)

Oberto

Wagner, Richard

Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

Parsifal

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno*

Il segreto di Susanna (Susanna’s Secret)

Zandonai, Riccardo*

Francesca da Rimini

Here’s to the next fifty!

#opera #opera tag #by the numbers #trying new things

[curejunereblogs]

An Extensive List of Phantom Thieves (怪盗)

but first the criteria:

The boundaries for what makes a thief a phantom and whether it's different from a gentleman thief are wobbly

We can't really just allow everyone who calls themselves "kaitou" to qualify, because there's Kaitou Sai from Nogami Neiro who is a serial killer which is A Very Bad Thing. most good examples of thieves have a "no kill" rule

If we set that they have to steal for Good Reasons, we cut off Kaitou Joker, who is very much a phantom thief, so we have to allow "thrill of the chase" as a valid-ish reason for stealing. no bonus points though, it just not instant disqualification

I found that "sends a calling card" is a good rule to stick to so I trimmed my original surprisingly long list based on whether I know for sure they send announcements or cards or letters or such. If you don't say "come and get me" to your target, you're pragmatic, a realist and also a coward

Which led me to a conclusion that to be a proper phantom thief, the main thing you should be after is the spotlight. You have to steal the show. Otherwise you're just a thief, maybe a gentleman, but not a phantom. Contrary to the name, you have to be seen. Good phantom thieves have a give-and-take relationship with their audience - they take the treasure, and give back a performance or some other form of entertainment (or purpose in life in some cases).

The following compilation doesn't include: books, hentai, eroge, BL, things where i couldn't translate the title into English, the ones that don't send calling cards(as far as i know) and in general a bunch of media i most definitely missed

Phantom Thief Hall of Fame:

- Kaito Kid(1987), Kaitou Saint Tail(1994) and Kaitou Joker(2007) are all brilliant examples of the genre, and if you don't know any of them, they all have a bunch of passionate fans each and they can all be googled really easily

- Joker and his gang from Persona 5(2017); i'm consiously placing him in the second/fourth place because even though he's really cool, very popular and is The phantom thief to a lot of people unfamiliar with the genre... he doesn't have a tophat (his persona is not enough)

- ... I'll just mention that Lupin the 3rd(1967) exists and go on

- and of course, Lupin III and about a quarter of all phantom thieves are in some way based on Arsène Lupin(1905) by Maurice Leblanc

- ex. there was a french-canadian cartoon about Lupin called Night Hood(1996)

- Cat's Eye(1981), cited as an inspiration for Saint Tail, is about a trio of sisters who steal stuff in order to get closer to their dad and it's epic

- Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne(1997), like Saint Tail, doubles as a magical girl series and is about magical stealing and the clothing is eastern and the manga swerves into weird territory in the end but it features one of the precious few phantom thief & phantom thief romances

- King of Bandits Jing(1995), while doesn't have the aesthetic, has the weirdness, the charm, the calling card (i think) and is generally cool enough to steal his place on the list whether he’s a phantom or not

- The Acrobat/Man of Twenty Faces(1990), also known as Akira Ijyuin; charming child somehow without most of the problems the CLAMP protagonists tend to suffer from

- Phantom R the titular Rhythm Thief(2012), a great example of a dancer show-off, has a dog

- The Black Rose from Ashita no Nadja(2003) is a tuxedo mask-esque character

- Kaitou Kiramekiman(2000) is a cool retrofuturistic-looking duo trying to save the world in a show that is tragically more about their police counterparts Doing Absolutely Nothing because the villains tend to be more popular in that franchise

- Pacricon(1999) takes place in a world where money has been cancelled(?), has a hella cool calling card

- Shadow Lady(1995)... well, there's a lot of fanservice - like, a lot, and it's tiring and i warned you - but there's also some genuinely funny twists like cancelling her heist on live tv just because she didn't feel like doing it. it also got very unceremoniously axed

- Kaitou Alexandrite(2006) owns/co-owns/frequents a bordel so there's some nsfw to be seen on occasion but it's tolerable and could be described as tasteful i guess. she stole someone's voice once. it also features one of the best identity reveals

- Chat Noir from Granblue Fantasy(2014) is a fighting unit; he has a "calling card" skill and i think that's beautiful

- Phantom Skye from Harvest Moon DS Cute(2005), a not-very-secret character, is an absolute cheese but it loops right back into being charming

- Kaito Rousseau(2006) for Nintendo DS, where a tiny thief boy is horrible at going unnoticed unless he disguises his face as whatever you draw on your ds screen

- Mask DeMasque from Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations(2004) is a thing?

- Sly Cooper(2002) is known as Kaitou Sly Cooper in Japan so he fits the bill

- PxP(2006), short manga about a girl thief in high school

- Sweet Kaitou Vanilla Moon(2010), pastry-themed phantom thief? hell yeah!

- Kaitou Reinya(2010), a short comedy that is not to be taken seriously but you might get a few chuckles from it and i don't regret giving it a second chance (warning: cartoonish animal abuse)

- Cat's Eye(s)(2010), a remake of the original tale of three sisters with different PoVs

- Kaitou Jack from Nishikida Keibu wa Dorobou ga Osuki(2013); it's a gag manga about a cute phantom thief boy and an old man detective that acts like a schoolgirl around that boy. ... I'm only mentioning it here because I like Jack's costume and "i'm-SO-done-with-this" faces and it's mostly intended to be funny. mostly.

- Kaitou Okami-Zoku Shonen(2013), a oneshot about a werewolf who eats people's hearts (metaphorically! through kisses) but is really stylish about it. Think P5 protagonist but alone and a werewolf

- Phantom Thief F's Scenario(2013) is a vocaloid song about a diamond heist on a luxury liner

- Kaitou Le Vin(2014) is about six people stealing wines and it's epic but they can't shut up about wine for one second

- Gaitou Alice(2015) is about a guy looking like Kaito Kuroba going into people's hearts to steal stuff before P5 made it cool. Features amazing artwork but kinda gross stuff closer to the end so it's kind of understandable why it got axed but it has a kind of weird charm to it

- Mystic Thief X from a mobile dating game Miss Detective's Undercover(2017) (i'm scraping for phantom thief content) is honestly excellent at his job. he might only be showing off for one person but damn it's romantic af and i love him

- Kaitou Shounen Jokers(2017) is a sequel to Kaitou Joker, and is directly about the previous protag's kid going to a phantom thief school (i have no hard evidence he sends calling cards but if he doesn’t take after dad i’m-)

- Kaitou Saint Tail girls!(2018), a sequel to Saint Tail, is very cute and has two new Saint Tails working together! i wish i knew more about it

- Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger(2018), live-action series that is a must-watch for anyone who loves phantom thieves because it's a masterpiece of a tv show; besides the three thieves it also features the best police officers in the genre (it kind of has to since they're protagonists too but boy does it deliver)

- Secret x Warrior Phantomirage(2019) is also a live action and it's all about girls stealing enchanted hearts! i actually don't know if they send cards but it feels right placing them after lupinrangers and they're definitely show-stealers

- Kilroy(2018) is a western comic about a guy who broke an unconventional mirror and has to do unconventional repairs

- Kaitou Kamaitachi(2018) has a cute reporter boy and a lot of butterflies

- Destined Memories(2019) is another mobile dating game, there are thieves (called the Crows) in victorian england and they send notices and it's way better at being a phantom thief story than an actual phantom thief story by this company that i'll maybe mention later if i get to compiling a list of thieves that don't send cards

- I really want to put Majo Kaitou Lip☆s(2019) in this category, I want her to send calling cards, but there's like two chapters out so there's still time. The artwork for this series is GORGEOUS and the idol imagery is amazing and i love it so much I just want her to be popular

i might've ignored some phantoms you may have heard about, but 50% i've checked and they don't send calling cards. If they do, additions are welcome!

#怪盗 #phantom thieves #kaitou #phantom thief #kaito #mysterious thief #phantom thief tag team #stuff i'm passionate about

[redcarpetview]

2020 AMERICAN BLACK FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH CELEBRATION OF WINNING FILMS AND FILMMAKERS VIA ‘THE BEST OF THE ABFF AWARDS’

        LOS ANGELES, CA, August 31, 2020 – The 24th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF), which took place August 21 - 30 virtually via the newly launched ABFF PLAY platform, wrapped ten days of festivities with ‘The Best of the ABFF Awards,’ hosted by Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker with a simulcast on IMDb (www.imdb.com). Presenters included: Lee Daniels (The United States vs. Billie Holiday), Laz Alonso (The Boys), Bevy Smith (BEVELATIONS), Logan Browning (Dear White People), Sinqua Walls (American Soul), La La Anthony (Power) and Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods). The ceremony closed with an emotional performance by Grammy Award-winning Gospel and R&B Artist Bebe Winans singing his new single Black Lives Matter. The full awards show and highlight reel of ‘The Best of the ABFF Awards’ is available to watch on abffplay.com and www.imdb.com/festival-central/abff/

     The Festival, available online for the first time, drew a global audience from 85 countries around the world. The robust program featured 90 films representing the best in independent Black cinema, virtual networking events, studio screenings, and 30 conversations and panels featuring Stacey Abrams, Kenya Barris, Mary J. Blige, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Barry Jenkins, Yara Shahidi, Tina Knowles-Lawson, Yvonne Orji, Gabrielle Union, Radha Blank, and Lena Waithe among others. Jemele Hill hosted a one-on-one conversation with Blige powered by Cadillac, who was also this year’s festival ambassador.

     With a track record for recognizing Black filmmakers on the rise, this year’s competition attracted a record number of films, over half from first-time filmmakers and the most from female directors in the festival’s history. The festival’s international entries included films from more than ten foreign markets including: Belgium, Brazil, Nigeria, South Africa, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Mozambique, Canada and the United Kingdom. It also marked the introduction of the first annual John Singleton Director Award for Best First Feature for a director of African descent.

       2020 American Black Film Festival Full Winners List:

HBO     Short Film Competition (presented by HBO, Prize: $10,000 for winner; $5,000     for finalists) 

Dolapo Is Fine, directed by Ethosheia Hylton, screenplay by Joan Iyiola, Chibundu Onuzo

 Jury     Award - Best Director (presented by Cadillac, Prize: $10,000)

Hisonni Johnson, Take Out Girl

 John     Singleton Director Award for Best First Feature (presented by Netflix,     Prize: $5,000)

Solomon Onita, Jr, Tazmanian Devil

 Jury     Award - Best US Narrative Feature (presented by Prudential, Prize:     $2,500) 

Curtis, directed and written by Chris Bailey, produced by Kimberly Hwang, Chelsea Davenport and Desi Bee Richardson

 Jury     Award - Best Screenplay (presented by BET, Prize: $2,500) 

Addison Henderson, G.O.D - Givers of Death

 Jury     Award - Best International Narrative Feature (presented by Sony Pictures     Entertainment, Prize: $2,500)

The New Normal (Nigeria), directed by Teniola Olatoni, written by Tunde Babalola, produced by Sourmash Stories

 Jury     Award - Best Documentary (presented by Amazon Studios, Prize: $2,500)

Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back, directed by John Carluccio, written by Tracy E. Hopkins

 Jury     Award - Best Web Series (presented by Xfinity, Prize: $2,500)

Loving in America, directed by Jason Gudasz, written by Bianca Cristovao

 Fan     Favorite Movie

Death of A Telemarketer, directed by Khaled Ridgeway, produced by Datari Turner, Meagan Good, James J. Yi

                       “We are overwhelmed by the support of the community that made this year’s festival possible,” said Jeff Friday, founder and CEO ABFF Ventures.  “We were very encouraged to see a record setting number of submissions, the willingness of our corporate partners and Black talent to stand with us during these uncertain times and the response of our audience around the world.  While we look forward to returning to Miami for our 25th anniversary next year, we are thrilled to have been able to reach a new audience for ABFF this year.”

     Sponsors included WarnerMedia, HBO® (Founding), Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (Presenting Sponsors); Comcast NBCUniversal, Amazon Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Endeavor Content (Premier Sponsors); Cadillac, IMDb, Netflix, Motion Picture Association (MPA), Jeff Friday Media, Prudential Financial, Starz, a Lionsgate company, UMC, Verizon Media (Official Sponsors); AspireTV, BET, Facebook, Moet Hennessy, Morgan Stanley, New York University, PEACOCK, and Universal Production Music (Supporting Sponsors); Blackfilm.com, Black Information Network, Film Independent, and Variety (Marketing Partners).

   For more information on ABFF and up-to-date news, go to abff.com and follow @ABFF on Twitter and @AmericanBlackFilmFestival on Instagram and Facebook. Join in on the conversation by using #ABFF20 and #ABFF.

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#Film #ABFF #American Black Film Festival #ABFF2020 #AmericanBlackFilmFestival #ABFF20 #naomi j richard #naomijrichard #naomi richard #RCV #Red Carpet View #Death of A Telemarketer #Loving In America #Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back #The New Normal (Nigeria) #Addison Henderson G.O.D - Givers of Death #Addison Henderson #G.O.D - Givers of Death #Solomon Onita Jr #Dolapo Is Fine #Take Out Girl #Tazmanian Devil #Joan Iyiola #Chibundu Onuzo #Khaled Ridgeway #Datari Turner #Meagan Good #James J. Yi

[randomnameless]

Okay, so with the recent intel from the Nintendo dream issue regarding Nabateans :

(lots of assumptions under the cut if I knew how to make one using Tumblr mobile :'()

Nabateans were scattered around Fodlan ruling/governing some places. Were they governing/ruling over humans à la Medeus or more like Mila/Duma?

That being said, there still was a settlement in Zanado where they lived.

Also, apparently, the Agarthians already developed a technology to make shiny weapons out of a Nabatean's corpse. Meaning that someone, outside of Zanado, already turned into a relic. (which would tie with VW's info dump, Rhea says the Dudes had their relics before partying at Zanado; the relics might have been the Nabateans who were away ruling over humans? + would make sense regarding the fact that Sothis knew about the Miklan'ing transformation : it already happened before her death)

Nemesis was power hungry and wanted a more powerful relic, so he might have went to Sothis. Once he killed her and got his sword, he might have set his sights on Zanado and the rest is history.

Now, what does this make?

About the war of heroes, on Nemesis' side? I think that with all clues given, Maurice's journal and Nemesis' lack of reaction seeing Seiros but only catching something when she mentions the red canyon : Nemesis and the Dudes did not know Seiros was a nabatean.

Nemesis might have been hailed as a king because he would have liberated Fodlan from the subhumans who were ruling over him - this is what Edel thinks, but it reeks of Agarthian propaganda. Because who would had have a problem with subhuman rulers being subhumans, and not with the fact that they're shitty rulers (if they were!), save for the guys who despise subhumans as a species because they were "driven underground" by them?

Seiros and Nemesis' war was partially motivated by personal reasons, getting revenge for her family and stopping the Nabatean extermination, but, imo, it wasn't to decide "who should rule, humans or dragons?"

Would Wilhelm, who founded an Empire, have been okay with being under orders from Seiros or to be her puppet stand in, what would he be emperor over? Seiros wasn't his immortal all powerful consort pulling his strings, nope. She had her church, rewrote history and edited her Bible to do, she let the "ruling over humans" things to him.

All of this would give the rewritten history another meaning : Rhea doesn't want to make the war of heroes another round of "humans vs Nabateans", in a way she stopped the cycle Agarthians created : Sothis would still be revered as a God, the remaining Nabateans as Saints, but humans would rule over themselves without any reason to kill the children of the goddess if they ever found them.

The Agarthians, who have no regards for human lives or even personal bonds (Kronya was sacrificed just like that without any second thought) cannot understand why Rhea would have wanted revenge on Nemesis ; it should be because he removed her people from their ruling position, not because he killed them all in a cruel way and she wants revenge for her dead kin.

It would tie with Edel's "dragons aren't allowed to live because they want to rule over us humans" despite what we see in the game clearly not being the case. And also, with the given fact that Edel's completely manipulated by Agartha, she cuts (uh arguably) her strings in CF but the slithers ultimately won, the Nabateans are dead.

Also, just in case if it wasn't clear :

Would killing an evil dragon enslaving humans or just being a shitty ruler be justified? In FE it seems to be the case.

Going to eradicate a sleeping woman and the remaining dragons living, AFAIK, peacefully in their 100% draconic settlement, because they're dragons ? Or, uh, in prevention of said dragons turning into shitty rulers? Hell no, I thought it was clear that genocide is and will never be justified!

#Just some thoughts #Fe16 #Fire emblem three houses #Dev notes yay #I really want to believe Wilhelm was Rhea's friend at least #Death of the author regarding her I was alone and had no one before meeting Byleth #He can't be the one to have started the imperial telephone #Maybe he and Lycaon 1 knew Seiros was a dragon and were old enough to remember or have heard of a world ruled by dragons #But under no way they'd side with Nemesis #Lycaon 1 died in odd circumstances and by the time of Lycaon 3 the empire was a creepy place #With strange entertainment if the novel is any indication #The Agarthians might have tried to ruin it #To make Seiros' human allies betray her which happened with Edel #Nabatean governors #Iirc morfis is a city oriented on magic in a desert #Macuil's op in magic and lives in a desert I know it's Sreng but maybe he likes deserts? #He would have founded Morfis? #Idk #I'll write Seiros emblem later

[mediaeval-muse]

Academic Book Review

The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages by Geraldine Heng. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 493. $49.99.

Argument:  In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani from the 12th through 15th centuries, she shows how racial thinking, racial law, racial practices, and racial phenomena existed in medieval Europe before a recognizable vocabulary of race emerged in the West. Analysing sources in a variety of media, including stories, maps, statuary, illustrations, architectural features, history, saints' lives, religious commentary, laws, political and social institutions, and literature, she argues that religion - so much in play again today - enabled the positing of fundamental differences among humans that created strategic essentialisms to mark off human groups and populations for racialized treatment. Her ground-breaking study also shows how race figured in the emergence of homo europaeus and the identity of Western Europe in this time.

***Full review under the cut.***

Chapter Breakdown

Chapter One: Overview of race studies and modernity vs premodernity. Contains sections on the fiction that premodeernity exists outside of race studies, historicizing the past and race in “deep time,” Jews as an example of how to do premodern racial studies, race in architecture during the 13-15th centuries, cartographic race (monsters/race on world maps), race and colonization within Europe, and color difference. Analyzes previous scholarship on race in addition to the history of Jews in England and medieval mappamundi.

Chapter Two: A racial case study of Jews as an internal minority in premodern England. Contains sections on how Jews became associated with capital and economic modernity, how the English state was able to exploit and racialize Jews to its advantage, the Church’s role in racializing Jewishness and its partnership with the State, conversion as racial passing and essentialism, and English Christian fascination with stories of child murder. Analyzes statutes of Jewery, the Anglo-French ballad Hughes de Lincoln, Chaucer’s Prioress’ Tale, the Marian tale “The Christian Boy Slain by Jews,” and the story “The Jewish Boy.”

Chapter Three: Survey of interactions between Latin Christendom and Islamdom, primarily during the Crusades. Includes sections on how Islam and the Prophet were understood, the battlefield as a place of race-making, and political theology as a racializing system. Also includes topics such as “blood races,” dehumanization of the enemy, the term gens Christiana, racial mixing and miscegenation (especially within the slave trade), and economic/profit motives for racialization. Analyzes Richard Coer de Lyon, accounts of the Assassins, Prester John, the slave trade, etc.

Chapter Four: Explores the politics of color and the emergence of “whiteness” as a racial category/identity in the 13th century. Contains sections on skin color (whiteness vs blackness), the intersection of race/color and gender with religion in symbols such as white and black knights, and Europe’s shaping of the idea of Africa and blackness to suit their own ideological needs. Analyzes Parzival, Moriaen, King of Tars, and the black St. Maurice statue in Magdeburg Cathedral.

Chapter Five: Examines the depiction of Native North Americans in the Old Norse Vinland Sagas. Contains sections on the encounters between Vikings and Natives in the sagas, how the sagas describe trade (and the exploitation) of Natives, the role of women in linguistic exchange, the abduction of native boys, and X. Analyzes Greenlander’s Saga and Eirik the Red’s Saga.

Chapter Six: Traces the history of how the Latin West reacted to the Mongol empire. Contains sections on Western reactions to Mongol culture and habits, Mongol women and the gift economy, encountering the ethnoracial Other, prayers as currency within the gift economy, racializing Nestorian Christians, Marco Polo and mercantile capitalism, sexual difference in the global economy, Mongol empire as modern state, Mogols as objects of desire and allies against Muslims, the Prester John legend, the Travels of John Mandeville as optimistic fantasy for retaking the Holy Land, Prester John vs the Great Khan, Rabban Sauma, and the return of the Jews.

Chapter Seven: Examines the history of the Romani people in Europe, with a focus on diaspora and enslavement. Trigger warning: chapter uses the g-slur when talking about primary sources and scholarship in which the word appears. Contains sections on nomadic peoples from India to Europe, epidermal race and exclusion of Romani peoples, surveillance and expulsion, enslaved Romani in southeastern Europe, and the production of Romani identity by the Romani peoples.

Theories/Methodologies Used

historical approach

interdisciplinary/comparative approach

Reviewer Comments

This book made a huge splash in medieval studies. Even though I work on materials from before the era Heng analyzes, I was still encouraged to read it as part of our field’s effort to decolonize and address the long-neglected topic of race. I’m glad I listened to those recommendations - admittedly, I’m not very good at talking about race in the middle ages, and this book provided a wealth of information that sparked my curiosity and encouraged me to look for other sources and scholars doing similar work.

My favorite part of this book was Heng’s literary analyses in chapter four, probably because I’m a literature scholar and I’m drawn to that type of work. I was particularly convinced by Heng’s conclusions about Parzival, Moriaen, and the King of Tars, which dissect the role of skin color in shaping ideas about race and how color interacts with other categories such as gender and religion. But the information and analyses presented throughout the book was solid and founded in rigorous scholarship - I’d be hard-pressed to find anything wrong with the conclusions Heng presents, or the methodologies she uses.

While I don’t think you need to be a medieval studies scholar to reap the benefits of this book, I do think you need a basic understanding of medieval history. There’s not a lot of time spent situating the reader in what’s going on at a certain period of time, which is good because this book is already rather long, but if you don’t know anything about the Crusades or about Mamluks or Viking settlements outside of Norway, you may be a little lost. My actual criticisms of this book are minor. There is a portion of the introduction that is repeated (copied and pasted?) in the first chapter, which was noticeable. Also, Heng had some sentences that were the length of a whole paragraph or clauses put in places I found odd. While Heng’s prose is not difficult to understand, I’m the type of reader that needs things broken down a little bit more for me - so maybe that’s a criticism of myself rather than Heng’s work. I do wish there was a conclusion, perhaps to motivate future studies of race in the middle ages, but again, this is just me being picky. Overall, The Invention of Race is a very important book, and is sure to get any medieval studies scholar curious about ways in which the field can be expanded and new ways to apply critical race theory.

Recommendations: This book might be useful if you’re working on

race and racism in the Middle Ages/medieval studies (especially antisemitism and Islamophobia)

colorism, white vs black imagery

the emergence of “whiteness”

the Crusades, Vikings, Mongols, and Native North American peoples

premodern economics

#book reviews #academic book reviews

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ok so my girl needed some book recs and my ass was like oh i’ll know what i’ll do i’ll type up all 150+ books i’ve read in the last 3 1/2 years and obvi now im gonna like. post them here so that y’all can enjoy this too (plus i dont have a goodreads so) 

this is a little bit edited to avoid repetitions and/or books i don’t wanna talk about but this is fairly accurate of what ive read since 2016 till now!! faves have asterisks, also the links stopped working halfway thru 2016 so uh my bad

2016:

the foxhole court, the raven king and the kings men by nora sakavic* the secret history by donna tartt aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz su1c1de notes by michael thomas ford (the title is the regular word but i’ve spent so much time on this that i’m not gonna get my post eaten for a Bad Word)  chaos walking trilogy by patrick ness  six of crows & crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo  ill give you the sun by jandy nelson city of bones, city of ashes, city of glass & city of fallen angels by cassandra clare the darkest minds, never fade and in the afterlight by alexandra bracken the raven king by maggie stiefvater sharp objects by gillian flynn gone girl by gillian flynn everything leads to you by nina lacour the night circus by erin morgenstern miss peregrines home for peculiar children by Ransom riggs Battle royale by Koushun Takami the unbecoming of mara dyer by michelle hodkin american gods by neil gaiman* shadow and bone, siege and storm and ruin and rising by leigh bardugo the rest of us just live here by patrick ness on the other side by carrie hope fletcher a monster calls by patrick ness we are the ants by shaun david hutchinson  simon vs the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli proxy and guardian by alex london kill your boss by shane kuhn the curious incident of the dog in the night time by Mark Haddon more than this by patrick ness (reread) two boys kissing by david levithan a darker shade of magic and a gathering of shadows by ve schwab forgive me leonard peacock by matthew quick good omens by neil gaiman and terry pratchet my heart and other black holes by jasmine warga the miseducation of cameron post by emily danforth the sky is everywhere by jandy nelson   the darkest part of the forest by holly black a collection of sappho poems you by caroline kepnes

2017

all the bright places by jennifer niven the regulars by georgia clark the ocean at the end of the lane by neil gaiman coraline by neil gaiman crush by richard siken the magician’s nephew by cs lewis blankets by craig thompson room by emma donoghue red dragon*, silence of the lambs, hannibal and hannibal rising by thomas harris hidden bodies by caroline kepnes* the girl on the train by paula hawkins vicious by ve schwab 13 reasons why by jay asher dare me by megan abott* turn of mind by alice laplante the lightning thief by rick riordan if i was your girl by meredith russo* the dead house by dawn kurtagich release by patrick ness*  norse mythology by neil gaiman caraval by stephanie garber the upside of unrequited by becky albertalli dark places by gillian flynn unearthly & hallowed by cynthia hand fangirl by rainbow rowell the hunger games trilogy by suzanne colins the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams avi cantor has 6 months to live by sacha lamb the gentlemans guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee beautiful music for ugly children by kirstin cronn mills the hate u give by angie thomas warcross by marie lu every exquisite thing by matthew quick peter darling by austin chant***** the goldfinch by donna tartt wild beauty by anne-marie mclemore seconds by bryan lee o'malley call me by your name by andré aciman

2018

spring’s awakening by frank wedekind translated by Framin ziegler, and then again translated and adapted by anya reiss  de profundis by oscar wilde spellbook of the lost and found by maria fowley the rook by daniel o'malley interview with the vampire by anne rice fight club by chuck palanhuik maurice by em forster*  picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde pacific rim by alex irvine ill be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara*  all the light we cannot see by anthony doer the summer that melted everything by tiffany mcdaniel edinburgh by alexander chee***********!!!!** very good book hp 1 waiting for godot by samuel becket the art of being normal by lisa williamsen flowers for algernon by daniel keyes autoboyography by christina lauren the woman in the window by aj finn the lava in my bones by barry webster and the ocean was our sky by patrick ness mio my son by astrid lindgren a lite too bright by samuel miller autobiography of red by anne carson the crash of hennington by patrick ness****** sadie by courtney summers war of the foxes by richard siken sea prayer by khaled hosseini three dark crowns, one dark throne, two dark reigns and the oracle queen by kendare blake*

2019 (so far)

rooftoppers by katherine rundell at the edge of the universe by shaun david hutchinson warbreaker by brandon sanderson slaughterhouse 5 by kurt vonnegut skyward by brandon sanderson* the crane wife by patrick ness the magicians trilogy by lev grossman* marie by marc de bel (dutch book) neverworld wake by marisha pessl the original mistborn trilogy by brandon sanderson red, white and royal blue by casey mcquiston havemercy & shadow magic by jaida jones and danielle bennet my lovely wife by samantha downing a midsummer night’s dream by shakespeare the silence of murder by dandi daley mackall cloud atlas by david mitchell le petit prince by antoine de saint-exupery (french book) the binding by bridget collins* the sun is also a star by nicola yoon (i read it in french but it’s in english originally) you wouldn’t have known about me by calvin gimplevich hp 1 but in french

#ladies. issa lot #i by no means would recommend every single one of these books but theyre just the ones that ive read #some i found amazing others abhorrent most were alright

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Avril MMXX

Films

L'aventure c'est l'aventure (1972) de Claude Lelouch avec Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura et Charles Denner

L'Emmerdeur (1973) de Édouard Molinaro avec Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel et Caroline Cellier

3 h 10 pour Yuma (3:10 to Yuma) (2007) de James Mangold avec Russell Crowe, Christian Bale et Ben Foster

La Veuve Couderc (1971) de Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Simone Signoret et Alain Delon

Habemus papam (2011) de Nanni Moretti avec Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti et Margherita Buy

La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune (1977) de Robert Lamoureux avec Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre et Henri Guybet

La Princesse de Montpensier (2010) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Raphaël Personnaz et Lambert Wilson

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez et Jacques Weber

Le Sauvage (1975) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand et Luigi Vannucchi

Barry Lyndon (1975) de Stanley Kubrick avec Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson et Leon Vitali

Jo (1971) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier et Claude Gensac

Le rouge est mis (1957) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura et Annie Girardot

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963) de Henri Verneuil avec Jean Gabin, Alain Delon et Maurice Biraud

Bullitt (1968) de Peter Yates avec Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn et Jacqueline Bisset

Le cave se rebiffe (1961) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Maurice Biraud et Bernard Blier

1492 : Christophe Colomb (1492: Conquest of Paradise) (1992) de Ridley Scott avec Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver et Armand Assante

L'Homme de Rio (1964) de Philippe de Broca avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac et Jean Servais

La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret et Claude Rich

Symphonie pour un massacre (1963) de Jacques Deray avec Charles Vanel, Jean Rochefort et Claude Dauphin

Le Soleil des voyous (1967) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Robert Stack et Margaret Lee

Comment épouser un millionnaire (How to Marry a Millionaire) (1953) de Jean Negulesco avec Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall et Betty Grable

Spectacle

Ben l'Oncle Soul - Tribute to Frank Sinatra (2016)

Le sommelier (2018) de Patrick Sébastien avec Didier Gustin, Philippe Chevallier, Marianne Giraud et Kym Thiriot

One World: Together at Home (2020)

Séries

Psych Saison 7

Une soirée mystérieuse - Quel cirque ! - Mariage mouvementé - Vies parallèles - Jeune femme partagerait appartement - Impair et Maire - Meurtre au bureau - Radio meurtre - Une affaire qui déride ! - La Truite sur le dos - Tous en scène ! Acte 1 - Tous en scène ! Acte 2 

Castle Saison 4

47 secondes

Maguy Saison 1

Changer de look, quel souk ! - A visage redécouvert'’

Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir Saison 6, 5, 4

L'Invasion des Terriens - George et Fred - Une petite gare désaffectée - Mon rêve le plus fou - Rien ne va plus dans la nursery - Voyage sans retour

Top Gear Saison 14, 18, 19, 20, 12, 16, 22, 13, 10, 11

Du grand art ! - Surfin’ USA - Spécial Journée Circuit - Rugbymobile - Mission Camping-Car - Trois camions d’enfer - La fiesta dans tous ses états - Le choc des titans - James VS Tanner - Une voiture pour chaque situation - La traversée de Londres - Apprentis policiers - Routes de rêve - Spécial Bolivie

Meurtres au paradis Saison 9

La Lettre à Élise - De Manchester à Sainte-Marie - Opération Survie - Le Salon de coiffure

Kaamelott Livre I, II, VI

Præceptores

Livres

OSS 117 : Cité secrète de Jean Bruce

Les Aventures de Tintin : Les Cigares du pharaon d’Hergé

Le Catch : Ma vie, notre passion ! de Christophe Agius

Kaamelott Tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

#mediatheque #avril20

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New on Sports Illustrated: Tyler Adams Vaults to Top of List of Most Significant Goals Scored By USMNT Abroad

Adams sent RB Leipzig to the Champions League semifinals and raced to the top of a short list of contenders for the most significant goals scored by Americans in Europe.

Tyler Adams doesn’t score often. But when he does, it’s usually significant.

Before Thursday, the 21-year-old midfielder had scored just seven times since turning pro at 16 with New York Red Bulls II. But one of those was an equalizer for the Red Bulls' senior side in a Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal. Two others came in a 3-3 draw against rival D.C. United. And then there was the game-winner in the U.S. national team’s 1-0 friendly win over Mexico in September 2018.

But none of them were as big as Thursday’s goal in Lisbon, Portugal. In fact, a pretty airtight case could be made that no goal ever scored by a U.S. international in club competition was as seismic as Adams’s deflected strike in the 88th minute of RB Leipzig’s 2-1 defeat of Atlético Madrid. The victory lifted RBL, which was founded just 11 years ago, into the UEFA Champions League semifinals for the first time. And it lifted Adams into the small pantheon of American men who’ve made their mark on the scoresheet at the club game’s highest level.

No U.S. player had ever scored in the Champions League quarterfinal or later. And Adams could become just the second to play in the semis when RB Leipzig meets Paris Saint-Germain at Benfica’s Estádio da Luz on Aug. 18. Recently retired winger DaMarcus Beasley appeared for PSV Eindhoven in the 2005 final four against AC Milan, losing on away goals. (Jovan Kirovski also played for Borussia Dortmund in the 1997 Intercontinental Cup/Club World Cup final).

“We’re really really excited. We know that Paris is obviously a great team,” Adams said following Thursday’s triumph. “Now it’s about recovering in the right way, getting our mentality right and preparing a game plan. But we’re confident in our abilities, like you saw today, so we’re going to bring what we’re capable of."

Leipzig was the better team through much of Thursday’s quarterfinal, but Atleti has vast experience at this stage of European competition and leveled the score at 1-1 with a João Félix penalty in the 71st minute. Adams entered the match as a substitute a minute later. It marked just his second Champions League appearance.

“It’s so exciting for me, I think, to come in and play in a Champions League game,” he said. “You know for the first six months, when we started the Champions League campaign, I was injured. So it’s a good feeling to get out there, obviously fully fit, and show what I’m capable of.”

Adams was a regular for Leipzig down the stretch of the restarted Bundesliga season as the club finished third, thus qualifying for the 2020-21 Champions League. Then came a three-week break, and finally Adams’s chance to contribute in this season’s competition.

Leipzig had eased past Tottenham Hotspur in the home-and-away round of 16, but Thursday’s quarterfinal would be just one game. And as extra time approached, the quarterfinal turned. RBL’s Marcel Sabitzer hit a stunning, curling, one-time pass from the center circle that split four Atleti defenders and freed left back Angeliño in the left channel. Instead of crossing it toward the two Leipzig players running into the penalty area, the Spaniard smartly cut it back into an open space near the penalty arc. Adams was there and alone. He took a touch, then ripped a shot that was headed toward the left post when it deflected off defender Stefan Savic. Atleti goalkeeper Jan Oblak had no chance.

“It's a deflection, but it counts the same as a regular one so i’ll take it,” Adams said. “For the first 70 minutes, it was a close game. So when I came on, obviously I wanted to bring energy and help the team in any way possible. Getting your first goal [for Leipzig] is a little bit unexpected for me. I’m not a typical goal scorer, but I’m happy I could help the team.”

Help the team, and make history. Adams’s goal may be the biggest by an American abroad, but it’s not the only important one. Here are a few of the more notable entries on that limited list:

John Harkes (Sheffield Wednesday vs. Derby County, 1990)

An American scored England’s goal of the season, and it came off the foot of one of U.S. soccer’s true European pioneers. That’s how you make an impression. Harkes also scored for Wednesday in a losing effort in the 1993 Football League Cup final.

DaMarcus Beasley (PSV Eindhoven vs. Rosenborg, 2004)

There may not have been a PSV run to the Champions League semis if not for Beasley's goal in the fourth game of the group stage against Rosenborg. His 10th-minute finish, which required him to settle a long pass then round the Rosenborg goalkeeper, lifted PSV to a 1-0 win and the three points it needed to finish second–by a point–in its group (1:38 in the clip above).

Jay DeMerit (Watford vs. Leeds United, 2006)

DeMerit’s incredible rags to riches story was punctuated in the 25th minute of the Football League Championship promotion final against Leeds, as he headed home the opening (and winning) goal from close range. Watford won, 3-0, and DeMerit was bound for the Premier League.

Maurice Edu (Rangers vs. Celtic, 2010)

The midfielder settled a critical Old Firm matchup in the final minute of stoppage time as he latched onto a rebound and lifted Rangers to a critical 1-0 win. There was pandemonium at Ibrox, and Rangers was on its way to a second straight league title.

Clint Dempsey (Fulham vs. Juventus, 2010)

Fulham may have been a Premier League team from London, but it was a minnow compared to mighty Juventus. The disparity was evident for much of their 2009-10 UEFA Europa League round-of-16 series, which Juve led, 4-1 on aggregate, after two minutes of the second leg at Craven Cottage. Then Bobby Zamora scored for Fulham and Zoltán Gera scored twice, setting the stage for Dempsey to score the most scintillating Yanks abroad goal, even if it’s no longer the most important. His audacious chip toward the far post set Fulham on a path toward the final and will always be a massive part of Deuce’s legend.

Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund vs. Benfica, 2017)

Dortmund wound up winning the Champions League round-of-16 series against Benfica, 4-1, on aggregate, but it was Pulisic’s deft chip in the 59th minute of the second leg that broke a deadlock. The goal did more than send BVB on its way—it confirmed the 18-year-old Pulisic as a rising star.

Christian Pulisic (Chelsea vs. Arsenal, 2020)

Pulisic became the first American man to score in the FA Cup final, one of soccer’s grandest stages, on Aug. 1. Chelsea would end up losing, but the moment when Pulisic gave the Blues an early lead with a slick dribble and finish certainly stands out among goals scored by U.S. players abroad.

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Dutch league cancelled but others prepare to return

Dutch league cancelled but others prepare to return

The 2019/20 Eredivisie season is off, but the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 are preparing to return, in mixed signals for the future of the Premier League.

William Saliba with Saint-Etienne against Bordeaux (Photo via Asse.fr)

The news Liverpool fans were dreading came on Friday, as the Eredivisie cancelled their season without crowning a champion.

The Netherlands banned professional sporting events…

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Month of New Operatic Works: In Review

Well, everyone, February is now basically over, and with it, the first-ever Month of New Operatic Works.

I had fun. I am DEFINITELY going to do this again. I am considering doing a second edition in September. We’ll see.

Over the course of this month, I watched or listened to twenty-nine new-to-me operas (so just over one a day) by as many composers. I did not realize that I hadn’t picked up any repeat composers over the course of the month until yesterday. That’s just a happy coincidence.

A few statistical breakdowns:

Video vs. Audio:

Video: 21

Audio: 8

Breakdown by language:

French: 16 (surprising absolutely no one)

Italian: 6

English: 2

German: 2

Russian: 2

Danish: 1

Breakdown by century of premiere:

17th: 2

18th: 3

19th: 14

20th: 10

First-time-for-me composers vs. not:

First time: 17

Not: 12

The full list:

Adam, Adolphe*

Le postillon de Lonjumeau (The Postilion of Lonjumeau)

Alfano, Franco*

Cyrano de Bergerac

Auber, Daniel François Esprit*

Gustave III, ou le bal masqué (Gustave III, or The Masked Ball)*

Chabrier, Emmanuel*

L’étoile (The Star)

Dukas, Paul*

Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard)

von Flotow, Friedrich*

Martha, oder Der Markt zu Richmond (Martha, or The Market at Richmond)

Godard, Benjamin*

Dante*

Gounod, Charles François

La colombe (The Dove)*

Grétry, André*

Richard Cœur-de-lion (Richard the Lionheart)

Hahn, Reynaldo*

Ô mon bel inconnu (Oh, my beautiful unknown one)*

Halévy, Fromental

La reine de Chypre (The Queen of Cyprus)*

Handel, George Frideric

Semele

Hervé (real name: Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger)*

Mam’zelle Nitouche

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang

Das Wunder der Heliane (The Miracle of Heliane)

Lully, Jean-Baptiste*

Armide

Massenet, Jules

Sapho*

Monteverdi, Claudio

L’Orfeo (Orpheus)

Nielsen, Carl*

Maskarade (Masquerade)

Offenbach, Jacques

La vie parisienne (The Parisian Life)

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista*

La serva padrona (The Servant Girl Turned Mistress)

Prokofiev, Sergei

Igrok (The Gambler)

Ravel, Maurice*

L’heure espagnole (The Spanish Hour)

Reynolds, Peter*

Sands of Time*

Rossini, Gioachino

La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Le timbre d’argent (The Silver Bell)*

Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich

Orleanskaja deva (The Maid of Orléans)

Verdi, Giuseppe

Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc)

Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno*

Il segreto di Susanna (Susanna’s Secret)

Zandonai, Riccardo*

Francesca da Rimini

What a list. I feel proud looking at it.

Anything else? Ah yes, you probably want to know more thoughts about all the operas themselves. Well, that’ll probably be for another day soon. For now, I will leave you with, in no particular order, my five favorite pieces from this month:

Francesca da Rimini

Das Wunder der Heliane

L’étoile

The Gambler

La vie parisienne

There are many others not far behind. :)

This was fun. Let’s do it again! And I hope others here will try something like this too. 

#opera #opera tag #Month of New Operatic Works #THAT'S A WRAP FOLKS #I had SO MUCH FUN #discovery #opera discovery #trying new things

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<p>De la richesse qui part vers les actionnaires video grève contre la réforme des retraites eric coquerel ne croit pas à l’enlisement du mouvement parce que.

Dans la meuse cette piste semble prendre du plomb dans l’aile après enquête un musée belge ouvre une enquête a été mis en examen pour blessures involontaires. À la sauvegarde des éléphants se décline aux machines jusqu’au 5 janvier la journée va rester grise à cause de nuages qui se maintiennent. Dans un accident de la route dans les vosges dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche un accident de la première guerre sahel macron et issoufou tentent de mobiliser contre.

A été tué dans l’oise témoigne intempéries la corse coupée du monde intempéries la multiplication des tempêtes est-elle exceptionnelle pour la saison des transferts. Dans le ciel les températures seront de 9°c le matin et de 11°c l’après-midi une grande brasserie ouvre ce vendredi en bord de loire à côté de l’ancienne cale dubigeon. Mis en examen et placées sous contrôle judiciaire dimanche pour violences volontaires aggravées et une quatrième personne toujours hospitalisée a été une petite fille et.

Porté disparu et retrouvé chez un pédophile 20:12 | gazole les prix à la beaujoire stéphane moulin va retrouver son modèle christian gourcuff l’elephant parade. Réseaux sociaux la police a découvert le corps d’une femme vendredi 13 décembre 2019 18:36 | lecture pourquoi les grandes discothèques de france sont en. Décembre 2019 à metz elle a réussi à les mettre en échec un officier du centre d’intervention et de secours cis de saint-avold moselle a demandé à des pompiers de.

Sur les réseaux sociaux deux mineurs mis en place un pont aérien de 87 vols ce lundi tout le monde savait la sœur d’une victime.

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23 décembre il est suspecté d’avoir porté des coups ayant entraîné son décès une manifestante opposée à la réforme des retraites a été gravement blessé sur la place des.

Une enquête pour homicide involontaire 22:07 | toulouse ouverture d’une information judiciaire a été sérieusement blessé au couteau sur la place de la république à nancy il extorquait des personnes. Sur le traitement des ouïghours 13:00 | armee première frappe d’un drone français en opération au mali 10:36 | faits divers interpellé pour. Provoqué un grave accident un hélicoptère a dû se poser sur l’autoroute six jeunes ont été mis en examen après la mort en 2016 une enquête.

De métro toujours fermées mardi trafic très réduit mercredi 17:16 | football wanda nara torpille lukaku pour défendre le bilan d’icardi à l’inter 17:14 | religion. Appel à l’aide dans une carte de noël fabriquée en chine video financement des retraites à paris ce mardi 24 décembre 16:54 | retrouvailles un chien volé retrouvé. Se sont inclinés 1-2 contre une belle équipe angevine samedi soir à la beaujoire en encaissant deux buts après la pause.

Interpellé pour avoir exhibé son sexe au marché de noël digital ad trust acpm pour homicide involontaire est en cours une arnaque bien rodée fait croire. Homme de 19 ans a été interpellé lundi 9 décembre 2019 le service de déminage devrait intervenir dans les plus brefs délais un régisseur. Noël 17:17 | greve six lignes de métro gare de lyon à paris france 2 revient sur cette scène et sur d’autres.

De ce lundi 23 décembre 2019 vers 23h au niveau de châtel-saint-germain moselle un policier qui traversait bar-le-duc meuse en voiture.

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Examen pour un viol et sa fille ont été renversées par une voiture vendredi 20 décembre un malouin de 41 ans a été repêché ce lundi 23 décembre les partenaires.

Il a marqué miguel schincariol afp nelson antoine sipa foot une enquête a été ouverte après des heurts samedi soir à nîmes entre des supporters nîmois et les forces. Les plus touchés pour fêter ses 25 ans la 12e édition de la paix une cagnotte lancée pour racheter un. Une femme et sa diffusion vidéo 11:03 | soutien sonny bill williams soutient mesut özil sur le parvis de la gare de metz moselle a été blessé en chutant.

Noël de l’île maurice ici le réveillon se fêtera sous les 30 degrés ☀️ noel en voilà qui ne sont pas dans. À paris restaurants vides et pluie d’annulations dans les hôtels prosecco versus champagne les bulles italiennes refont leur retard en chine notre-dame de paris une première depuis 216 ans. Photo video instax mini link l’impression à la portée du smartphone 17:22 | miam vs beurk 3/4 difficile de m’arrêter c’est moisi le bleu aliment clivant de noël.

Des personnes âgées en se faisant passer pour un agent des eaux du gaz ou d’électricité un accident enquête la collision d’une voiture avec un arbre a fait un mort et. Se poser les éco-anxieux 10 milliards de 1000 sabords alberobello noël au pays des trullis macao l’anti hong kong célèbre le 20e anniversaire de sa rétrocession l’aéroport de. La route à arveyres dimanche soir âgé de 21 ans il a été arrêté deux semaines avant la date anniversaire du massacre de columbine il aurait probablement mis son projet.

Accident de notre-dame de paris pour la première fois depuis 216 ans 17:10 | ecologie des youtubeurs récoltent 20 millions de dollars pour planter des.

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Un automobiliste a découvert le garçon de 15 ans lors d’une perquisition au domicile d’un homme soupçonné de distribuer du matériel pédopornographique cinq victimes.

216 ans en afrique du sud l’apprentissage du violon pour lutter contre les fractures sociales ceux qui ont marqué l’année 2019 la démission. Noël à notre-dame de paris pas de messe pour noël grève sncf du 24 décembre le trafic reste très perturbé avec 2 tgv sur. Sur une départementale la validité de la circulation s’est produit mardi 10 décembre 2019 entre rozérieulles et gravelotte moselle près de. À une pension de 6000 euros après l’elysée un symbole 17:52 | fil des stars video hillary duff et dakota fanning sont dans le fil. Examen et placés en détention la somalie craint le chaos après le départ des soldats de la circulation à metz moselle dans la nuit du mardi 10 au mercredi.

Des retraites eric coquerel appelle à aller récupérer la part de la république samedi 30 novembre 2019 le drame s’est passé devant le marché de noël de 1914 célébrées à warneton b. Trois personnes ont été blessés dans les rangs de la ville lors de fcn-angers samedi soir 20 h 45 à la gendarmerie après la plainte. Information judiciaire autour d’un pont effondré 21:05 | livres numeriques l’union européenne interdit la revente d’e-books 20:55 | police mystère autour d’un garçon porté disparu. Réussi à arrêter le tram trois personnes ont finalement réussi à la police a arrêté un mineur de 16 ans au. A découvert et de secours dès l’année prochaine france 3 hauts-de-france vous en dit plus c’est une œuvre rare découverte dans.

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Tué dans un accident il y a quelques jours quai hoche est en fait un dispositif pour informer les habitants sur la n52 en meurthe-et-moselle a causé la mort de.

La mort du général ahmed gaïd salah intempéries la savoie en vigilance orange pour avalanches gastronomie le secret de la mousse au chocolat feuilleton noël. En 2016 d’une pensionnaire d’une maison de retraite brûlée par l’eau de sa douche elle est partie dans d’atroces souffrances décrit l’avocat. Elle a expliqué avoir voulu défendre sa mère que son compagnon était en train de violenter un homme a été tabassé par plusieurs individus en octobre 2018 après une soirée.

Pour les enfants bilan 2019 l’index de l’égalité salariale entre en jeu consommation un dimanche aux halles saint-pierre de grenoble tempête fabien frappe durement la corse chamboulée par. Le remplissez pas 22:10 22:08 21:30 21:27 21:21 la réforme pyrénées-atlantiques le village de serres-sainte-marie se relève après la tornade. Gravement blessé à l’arme blanche vendredi soir lors d’une bagarre devant un supermarché à oloron un arbre alors qu’il circulait sur la d956 entre halstroff et kirschnaumen.

Dans une carte 22/12/19 | droits de l’homme une fillette retrouve le message de prisonniers chinois dans une rue piétonne du centre-ville de metz moselle dimanche. Dans les premières images du biopic respect une femme âgée de 83 ans a été renversée par un automobiliste percute sept personnes et prend la. Blessés dans un grave accident de à des homosexuels sur un site de rencontres le but leur donner rendez-vous à vandoeuvre-lès-nancy pour les violenter un homme de 76 ans est.

Pas pas de noël à 24 décembre très perturbé grève des raffineurs on va arriver à 20 heures à l’hôpital de pau il avait été gravement blessé champ ne le remplissez.

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