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This is my favourite act in “B for Busy”. From 34’ to 46'. Three ladies gathered around Mr.B’s dinner table for a delightful and demure conversation. It starts from a beautiful shots of the making of clasical homemade Shanghai cuisine, then right to the dinner table, seats Mr. B’s ex-wife and lovers of an exhilariting conversation that fully showcase the excellency of screenwriting and mastery acting. And here’s the very original source of the viral debate about...

The films “B for Busy” (爱情神话) (2021) and “Sideways” (2004) share striking similarities that go beyond their surface narratives. Sideways (2004) and B for Busy [爱情神话] (2021) At their heart, both movies delve into the nuanced journey of relationships, weaving tales where characters meet, bond, fall in love, or drift apart. One man’s vacation can morph into another’s pivotal life journey or ending. As the stories unfold, some characters evolve, others remain unchanged but ready to move on, or, story put on holds, as friendships peaked as people continue their lives elsewhere....

Sideways is a movie about wine. “Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment, embark on a week-long road trip through Californiaʼs wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.” source: Amazon The movie was a huge success on a petite budget. It was made on a $16 million budget but earned over $100 million at the box office worldwide. The movie has 5 nominations and won “best adapted screenplay” at the 77th Academy Award (2005)....

Apple music classical has a marvelous collection of Vladimir Horowitz’s piano recitals—all the years, all the remarkable concert halls and performance: Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966-1983 This recording CD costs minimum of $250 on Amazon, but now it’s free and available in highest possible stereo quality on Apple Music Classical. Run, Rach lovers. Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966-1983 is an extensive collection of 50 CDs, documenting Horowitz’s live performances across 17 years....

Steinway-piano dot com has the story of the meeting of the two perhaps most influential musicians among the piano community of the first half of the 20th century. Horowitz: the rising of a star Vladimir Horowitz and Sergei Rachmaninoff had each suffered great losses in the Russian Revolution of 1917. “We lost absolutely everything,” Horowitz told author, radio personality, and Steinway Artist David Dubal, as reported in Dubal’s book, Reflections from the Keyboard....

In Horowitz, fire sings through metal, glass, water and ice. The Carolina Philharmonic has the story “Zen and the Art of Piano | Vladimir Horowitz”, by David Michael Wolff. It’s about the artistic style of pianist Horowitz and his inspirational friendship with Rachmaninoff. The time was around the beginning of the 20th century—artists flee from the war and revolution in Russia to arrive in US: The young Horowitz had just landed off the boat in NYC and with all the sights the New World had to offer, his first stop was Rachmaninoff’s Manhattan apartment....

Andante Cantabile, generally means “singing and walking”, is a musical term—a descriptive marker atop a score to delineate the mood or tempo intended by the composer. It . This trend is particularly poignant in compositions of grand scale, where each movement, each phrase, carries its own distinct direction. Among the luminaries of the Andante Cantabile, Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 in D Major resonates profoundly, a masterpiece that I’ve previously explored in an older post....

This is one of the scenes that resonates with my current phase and inspires me a lot. [Joe] (After the successful performace) So uh, what happens next? [Dorothea] We come back tomorrow night and do it all…[pause] What’s wrong, teacher? [Joe] It’s just i’ve been waiting on this day for my entire life. I thought I’d feel different. [Dorothea] I heard this story about a fish. The fish swims up to this older fish and says, “I’m trying to find this thing they call the ocean....

Henri Biva. French artist, active around 1900s±, somewhere between post-impressionism and realism. This painting is one of Henri’s masterpieces that showcased the artist’s mastery in capturing warm natural light. Etang dans la brume (aka Pond in the mist), Henri Biva (1848 – 1929). Salon de Paris, 1910. Oil on canvcs (151cm•111cm). Now in Musée d’Orsa. IT IS THE OIL ON CANVAS THAT BIVA PRESENTED IN PARIS AT THE 1910 SALON UNDER THE NUMBER 206....

Inspired by the aesthetic of eternal sunshine’s album cover, I customized a Typora themeable that echos the album’s concept. the red of the gloves, paired with the innocent white dress, echoes a juxtaposition of passion and purity. meanwhile The dark background augments the sense of mesmerizing self-revelation. Instead of directly replicating the color palette from the album cover, I decided to take a more conceptual approach, in reflecting the commitment to an ethereal minimalism—like, an homage to the what Saturn Return brings into our lives....