A Place Like This

Category: Film

  • Weekend Musings

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Maybe I should call this post Reading & Movie Watching but that's what I did this weekend. Believe me when I tell you I have a myriad of deadlines looming, one of which is a book deadline and my little artistic attention went to one of the best books I've read in a long time…

  • Queen of the Sun

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    Valarie Budayr
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       (Today's photos are from the press kit of Queen of the Sun.) Recently I had the great occasion to see the most inspiring of movies, Queen of the Sun. We so often hear how our world is in peril and well just plain doomed. The solution is always the same, that we must change…

  • Enchanted Visions

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    Valarie Budayr
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      I wish I could report that all is well here but the truth is that little "o" and I have been very sick with the flu over the weekend. We've been lying flat on our backs feeling miserable. Today I can tell you that we seem to be moving a little better and still hoping that the…

  • Bright Starred Away……..

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    Valarie Budayr
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    The light is subdued and golden. The air has a chill but warmth at the same time. I was ready to be taken back into a time. To live as another did for just a little while. Not knowing that such a film was playing, I stumpled upon Jane Campion's new movie Bright Star.  …

  • Mamma Mia

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Mamma Mia here I go again……..How could I forget ya…….. So Susie, my best friend, and I decided to escape the hot summer day to watch the movie Mamma Mia. It was truly a moment of self discovery. I didn’t know that I knew so many ABBA songs word for word. It seems most of…