Eastern & Oriental Hotel - Fantastic 4
Martin Sarkies, Tigran Sarkies, Aviet Sarkies and Arsahak Sarkies play the leading roles, in a 19th century story, in Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia, in a period of time when the merchants, the ...
About what nobody told that had happened exactly 130 years ago: in 1885
It was an eventful year: Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, the chancellor Otto von Bismarck occupied Cameroon, Louis Pasteur successfully tested the anti-rabies vaccine, Rodin created the marvelous ”Les Bourgeois de Calais”, the Statue of Liberty was brought to New York.
Life beats the movie
Scena 20, dubla 3. Atentie, motor! Lady Tuptim, concubina preferata a regelui Siam-ului, fuge din harem. Ii este dor de logodnicul ei, Balat si decide, deghizata in barbat, sa se ascunda in templul unde locuia acesta. Insa garzile regelui o gasesc si acum, frumoasa Tuptim isi asteapta sentinta…
The indigo house
Our first “rendez-vous” was several years ago, at Cinemateca(a film library), where I had been told to see “Indochine”. Oh, what a cinematic experience! What a refinement, such lovely fashion details, what a sweet-bitter feeling, what a music, what a majestic acting, what an impressive beauty!…And some house! Can you remember the tango of Eliane (the wonderful Deneuve) and Camille in the saloon with rattan sofas, with blinds and walls having the colour of honey? Yes, a mythical scene, an incredible spot!
Cheers! The exotic variant
The arm of Europe is quite long… And when it meets Oriental hearts, exotic souls, the mix is fa-bu-lous! And Penang is a testimony of this absolutely charming ”marriage”, showing it off at each corner.
Walls full of art...
What might Lithuania have in common with Malaysia? An artist, some walls and a festival. That`s how things started with some spectacularly genuine and realistic grafitti, which I admired in Georgetown, Penang, trying to grasp the expressions and the emotions that the Lithuanian Ernest Zacharevic rendered on some of the old buildings in the town...
