A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Photo Illustration: Pixabay Hello, Gentle Reader, and welcome to another edition of Bloggin' On, the blog-within-a-blog where I don't write either political commentary (which is not my forte anyway) or write reviews of movies, books, TV shows, or music albums. This, if you will, is my "miscellaneous" or even my "personal space" section, and I'll be talking a little bit about this and a little bit about that. It's already early afternoon here in my little nook of Florida, and it's a lovely late January day here. The weather is quite pleasant right now; the temperature outside is 66℉ (19℃) under mostly sunny skies; per the forecast, it might get a bit warmer as the high is expected to reach 71℉ (22℃). Tonight the low is expected to reach 54℉ (10℃) around 11 PM Eastern time. Those temperatures are not ones in which I'd stay out-of-doors without the proper cool weather clothing, but they remind me of the typical late fall climate in Sevi...

Carmen (1984) Based On: Carmen, an 1875 opera by Georges Bizet. Libretto by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy based on  Carmen, a novella by Prosper Mérimée Adapted by: Francesco Rosi and Tonino Guerra Directed by: Francesco Rosi Starring; Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, John-Paul Bogart, Susan Daniel Theatrical release poster for Carmen. © 1984 Gaumont and Opera Film Produzione On September 20, 1984, six months and six days after its premiere in France, U.S. audiences first saw director Francesco Rosi's adaptation of Carmen, the classic opera by Georges Bizet, Henri Meilhac, and Ludovic Halévy (which was based on the eponymous novel by Prosper Mérimée). Starring Placido Domingo as Don Jose and Julia Migenes-Johnson as Carmen, the film is, as the late Roger Ebert wrote in his contemporary review , "the Raiders of the Lost Ark of opera films." Filmed entirely in Andalusia, Spain and set in 1875-era Sevilla (Sev...