#olga montes

[6kn0wh3re6]

🗳Polls are Open!

1. Vesper Lynd (Casino Royale) played by Eva Green ⬇️

2. Camille Montes (Quantum of Solace) played by Olga Kurylenko ⬇️

3. Madeleine Swann (Spectre, No Time to Die) played by Léa Seydoux ⬇️

*This is the first in a series of polls. There will be a poll for each of the following era's:

*Daniel Craig era

*Sean Connery era

*Timothy Dalton era

*Pierce Brosnan era

*Roger Moore era

The Winner of each era will square off in the finals to determine the Ultimate Bond Girl.

*FYI, since George Lazenby appeared in only one Bond film, Diana Rigg gets a free trip to the final round.

See Ya, there!

[fatedtime]

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

[pedroam-bang]

Quantum Of Solace (2008)

[ofgreatart]

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

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

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[ultimate-007]

QUANTUM OF SOLACE 2008

Olga Kurylenko (Camille Montes)

[leofromthedark]

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

[wachi-delectrico]

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

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

[las-microfisuras]

Nosotros no nos encontrábamos

no nos buscábamos en los huertos con una manzana

entre los murmullos de la seda en naves de las iglesias

Siempre estuvimos uno dentro del otro

en el cuerpo de dios de doble cara

en las pinturas medievales de los sótanos de los museos

y en las fotos de nuestros padres

inocentes como papel

Nosotros -maestros de cruzarnos-

solo permanecimos uno frente al otro

y en espejos de la piel nos reflejamos enteros

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

los bosques echaron raíces en el suelo

las ciudades guiadas por el olfato encontraron lugares

donde los hombres las construían infinitamente

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

los montes inasibles cuajaron en las cuevas

Si yo soy un monte

tú eres una cueva dentro de mí

lugar en el monte donde no hay monte

lugar dentro de mí donde no estoy.

_ Olga Tokarczuk

Trad. Ada Trzeciakowska.

_ Katrien de Blauwer

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

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

Born On November 14th, 1979

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

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

Ms. Olga Kurylenko🇺🇦🇫🇷 #OlgaKurylenko

[princesssarisa]

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

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

Verdi's Il Trovatore

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

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

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

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

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

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

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

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

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

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

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

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

Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

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

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

Part I, Part II

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

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

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

Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)

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

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

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

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

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

Verdi's Falstaff

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

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

Verdi's Otello (Othello)

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

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

[pwlanier]

Screen-printed mandalas by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn 1930

Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn was born into an artistic and politically active Dutch family living in London. She studied at Zürich University of Arts and although she did not make a living as an artist, she would produce hundreds of vivid abstract paintings inspired by Eastern mandalas and her esoteric visions. After a period in Berlin, she returned to Switzerland following her husband’s premature death and settled outside of Ascona, a municipality bordering Italy on the shore of Lake Maggiore.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Ascona had begun to attract those seeking an alternative to modern life. On Monte Verità, the “mountain of truth”, anarchists, nudists, and vegetarians experimented with communal living, free love, and plotted a utopian society. Over the decades, it played host to sharp critics of technology and capitalism, as well as to many who shaped the aesthetics and philosophies of modernism. Visitors included: the artists Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, and Paul Klee; anarchists and socialists such as August Bebel, Peter Kropotkin (an old friend of Fröbe’s mother), Otto Braun, as well as Lenin, Trotsky, and Bakunin; the dancers Isadora Duncan and Rudolf von Laban; and poets, authors, and philosophers like Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Stefan George, and Rudolf Steiner.

In 1905, the German anarchist Erich Mühsam dreamt of Ascona serving as a refuge for “freed or escaped prisoners, for the pursued homeless”, and for everyone else unfit or unwilling to become productive members of capitalist society.9 As the area became increasingly fashionable and a magnet for minor European nobilities with esoteric interests, a German journal identified Ascona as “Berlin’s outermost suburb”. “Anyone from the German literati in search of a vacation spot that comes with the possibility of a think piece guaranteed to be accepted by any paper should make their way to Ascona”, the journalist stated, promising that here you can discover “a lizard . . ., a movie star, or a new religion”.10 Bolstered by Swiss neutrality, Ascona evolved into a place where disenfranchised aristocrats rubbed shoulders with revolutionaries, while keeping close connections to the avant-garde art scene of Zürich.

The entrance gate to Sanatorium Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, ca. 1907

Public Domain Review

[nekomancee]

oiii, tudo bem? feliz festas!!

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

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

Bjs!!

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

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

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

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

[gorbigorbi]

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

Photographer Alice Blangero

Photographer Alice Blangero

[theodoradove]

SF Silent Film Festival winter program!

Saturday, December 2, Castro Theatre

More information, tickets and passes at silentfilm.org

10:00 AM

OF MICE AND MEN (AND CATS AND CLOWNS)

A collection of animated shorts, 1908–1928

Some of the most creative films from the silent era came out of an inkwell! Our collection includes animated shorts from 1908–1928, films that outshine much of what followed. For sheer audacity and pure joy, these films by cartoon masters Including the Fleischer brothers, Pat Sullivan, and Walt Disney, can’t be beat!

Fantasmagorie (1908, d. Émile Cohl)

How a Mosquito Operates (1912, d. Winsor McKay)

Adam Raises Cain (1922, d. Tony Sarg)

Amateur Night on the Ark (1923, d. Paul Terry)

Bed Time (1923, d. Dave and Max Fleischer)

Felix Grabs His Grub (1923, d. Pat Sullivan)

A Trip to Mars (1924, d. Dave and Max Fleischer)

Vacation (1924, d. Dave and Max Fleisher)

Alice’s Balloon Race (1926, d. Walt Disney)

Felix the Cat in Sure Locked Homes (1928, d. Pat Sullivan)

Live music by WAYNE BARKER and NICHOLAS WHITE

12:00 NOON

THE WILDCAT (Die Bergkatze)

1921, d. Ernst Lubitsch

Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann

Before director Ernst Lubitsch left Germany to ply his famous ‘Touch’ in Hollywood, he made a series of comedies that gave hints at what was to come. The Wildcat is his last German comedy and his most riotously zany. Subtitled ‘A Grotesque in Four Acts,’ Wildcat makes use of extravagant set design and eccentric frame shapes that lend a surrealistic edge to its antic energy. Pola Negri’s Rischka leads a gang of mountain bandits who ambush Lieutenant Alexis (Paul Heidemann) on his way to the local fortress, leaving him pant-less (and smitten) on the ice. Film writer John Gillett called the film “both an anti-militarist satire and a wonderful fairy tale.”

Live music by MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA

2:15 PM

THE EAGLE

1925, d. Clarence Brown

Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser

Clarence Brown's rousing film displays a perfect blend of elements—romance, swashbuckling, a modicum of humor, and the great Rudolph Valentino! Not to mention the splendid production design by William Cameron Menzies and gorgeous camerawork by George Barnes. After Valentino's Russian lieutenant rejects the amorous attentions of Catherine the Great (Louise Dresser), she orders him arrested. Instead, he flees and becomes a masked avenger intent on righting the wrongs visited upon his father and his countrymen by loutish nobleman Kryilla Trouekouroff (James A. Marcus). But the nobleman has a beautiful daughter (Vilma Banky)...

Live music by WAYNE BARKER

4:15 PM

PAVEMENT BUTTERFLY (Großstadtshmetterling)

Germany/Great Britain, 1928/1929, d. Richard Eichberg

Gaston Jacquet, Anna May Wong

Luminous Anna May Wong goes from a fan-dancing carnival act to an artist garret and finally to the French Riviera where she accompanies a wealthy art patron around Monte Carlo, draped in haute couture. Wong left Hollywood in search of roles more fitting her talents than the racially-circumscribed ones at home. This Weimar title showcases her magnetism—when Wong is onscreen, you can't look away.

Live music by the SASCHA JACOBSEN ENSEMBLE

7:00 PM

SAFETY LAST!

1923, d. Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor

Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis

Harold Lloyd's bumpkin salesclerk comes up with a publicity stunt that will bring attention to his department store and earn him the money to marry his sweetheart—scale the 12-story building like a human fly! Shot in downtown Los Angeles, the stunt has given us one of the most iconic images of the silent era—Lloyd precariously hanging over the city street, dangling from a broken clock. James Agee wrote: "Each new floor is like a new stanza in a poem; and the higher and more horrifying it gets, the funnier it gets."

Live music by MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA

9:00 PM

FORGOTTEN FACES

1928, d. Victor Schwertzinger

Clive Brook, William Powell, Olga Baclanova

Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) and Froggy (William Powell) are partners in crime—genteel armed robbery—at least until the cuckolded Harry commits an even bigger offense. Before Harry goes to prison, he leaves his baby girl on the doorstep of a wealthy couple to keep her out of the clutches of his no-good wife Lilly (Olga Baclanova) and tasks Froggy with keeping close tabs. But Froggy is no match for Lilly...

Live music by the SASCHA JACOBSEN ENSEMBLE

[byneddiedingo]

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

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

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

[ultimate-007]

QUANTUM OF SOLACE 2008

Olga Kurylenko as Camille Montes