Wednesday, July 31, 2013
L'image du mer-fleurie (2013-07-31)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The Floating Castle
“Japan's long years of civil war are nearing a conclusion with Toyotomi Hideyoshi one short step away from finally uniting the land under his rule. He sends a huge army north against the Hojo clan, his last enemy. The one stronghold he cannot take is Oshi Castle, a Hojo outpost in the land of Bushu. Called “the floating castle” because of the lake that surrounds it, it is under the command of Narita Nagachika, a popular leader known to the people of his domain, unflatteringly, as “nobou-sama”, from deku no bou, or “blockhead”. Under Hideyoshi's order, General Ishida surrounds the castle with a force of 20,000 men. Nagachika, as his nickname suggests, is not much of a thinker, but he is a brave and obstinate leader. Against the overwhelming force of the Ishida army, the defenders of the valiant castle -- no more than 500 men -- unite with the common folk in stubborn resistance, refusing to retreat a single step, even when Ishida resorts to the extraordinary tactic of damming a river to flood them out. But, with victory in their grasp, outside events give the story a twist no one would have ever expected.” (from The Montreal World Film Festival program guide)
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Le Château de l'aurore
“Grand amateur de l’Histoire de son pays, Tezuka s’est souvent amusé à construire ses récits à partir d’épisodes marquants du passé, comme l’illustre ce Château de l’Aurore étincelant de fantaisie. Les intrigues politiques et le contexte historique font tout le sel de cette chronique palpitante située à l’époque de Hideyoshi Toyotomi (1536-1598), l’un des trois unificateurs du Japon féodal.”
“Le puissant seigneur Muneharu Matsunoki se lance à la demande du shogun dans la construction d’un château de style «anglais». Malgré l’opposition des habitants, les travaux de l’extravagante bâtisse commencent. Mais le chantier devient le théâtre de mystérieux sabotages et des ombres inquiétantes rôdent bientôt dans le périmètre. Les liens familiaux et les rivalités de clans s’en mêlant, les passions s’exacerbent et la situation devient vite explosive. Déjà, c’est la guerre qui menace…”
“Cette œuvre réalisée au tout début des années 1960 témoigne de ce que les spécialistes japonais désignent comme «l’Âge d’or» d’Osamu Tezuka, période qui le voit s’affranchir de l’influence de Walt Disney et inventer les codes de la bande dessinée japonaise moderne. Le Château de l’Aurore n’est que l’un des nombreux joyaux méconnus dont regorge l’œuvre pléthorique de ce génie du 9e Art.” [ Texte tiré du blogue de l'éditeur ]
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“Le puissant seigneur Muneharu Matsunoki se lance à la demande du shogun dans la construction d’un château de style «anglais». Malgré l’opposition des habitants, les travaux de l’extravagante bâtisse commencent. Mais le chantier devient le théâtre de mystérieux sabotages et des ombres inquiétantes rôdent bientôt dans le périmètre. Les liens familiaux et les rivalités de clans s’en mêlant, les passions s’exacerbent et la situation devient vite explosive. Déjà, c’est la guerre qui menace…”
“Cette œuvre réalisée au tout début des années 1960 témoigne de ce que les spécialistes japonais désignent comme «l’Âge d’or» d’Osamu Tezuka, période qui le voit s’affranchir de l’influence de Walt Disney et inventer les codes de la bande dessinée japonaise moderne. Le Château de l’Aurore n’est que l’un des nombreux joyaux méconnus dont regorge l’œuvre pléthorique de ce génie du 9e Art.” [ Texte tiré du blogue de l'éditeur ]
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Paysages
Vous pouvez voir d'autres photos de couchés de soleil sur mon album Flickr “Paysages” (prises le 22 juillet entre 19:59 et 20:54).
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
L'image du mer-fleurie (2013-07-24)
Sunday, July 21, 2013
L'âne d'or par Milo Manara
“La version érotique d'un classique de la littérature latine, revu par l'un des maîtres de l'érotisme en bande dessinée.”
“Cet album propose le récit des péripéties du jeune Lucius, transformé en âne et soumis aux vicissitudes d'une vie d'errance. Brigands, sorcières et patriciennes aux mœurs légères se succèdent au fil de ce conte érotique sans tabous, tour à tour inquiétant et truculent. Inspiré de L'Ane d'Or d'Apulée, ce récit fait partie des œuvres marquantes de Milo Manara, au sommet de son art.” [ Texte du site de l'éditeur ]
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“Cet album propose le récit des péripéties du jeune Lucius, transformé en âne et soumis aux vicissitudes d'une vie d'errance. Brigands, sorcières et patriciennes aux mœurs légères se succèdent au fil de ce conte érotique sans tabous, tour à tour inquiétant et truculent. Inspiré de L'Ane d'Or d'Apulée, ce récit fait partie des œuvres marquantes de Milo Manara, au sommet de son art.” [ Texte du site de l'éditeur ]
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Thermae Romae (E)
First, before talking about the movie, I would like to briefly introduce the Thermae Romae manga and anime...
“When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his “outdated” thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs…over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome—Thermae Romae!” ( from the manga publisher's website )
L'image du Mer-fleurie (2013-07-17)
Monday, July 15, 2013
Press Review (2013-07-15)
Earlier this month I really felt my age as someone gave me his place in the subway! But despite chronic back pain, tiredness and digestion problems (the stigmata of getting older, I guess), I feel pretty good. My mind seems clearer and I write a little more. However, time is really passing by more quickly. I feel I hardly have time to accomplish anything. I feel like I'm in a spaceship accelerating toward light speed. Pfsshh! A week-end of writing... Work! Work! Pfsshh! Another week-end of writing... Work! Work! Pfsshh... You get the idea...
There's still many more manga I'd like to comment about but, since the movie festivals season is arriving, I feel like watching and commenting on movies. I'll see about that...
We keep having the same weather pattern: a few days of heat wave followed by days and days of rain... It seems it's also the season of catastrophic events. Fire here, flood there (when it rains, it pours as they say). Plain crash here, train crash here and there! And the poor whistleblower is still stuck in the limbo of a russian airport (lesson: never blow the whistle on your government; big brother don't like that kind of music as it makes his enemies--and even some allies--dance an outraged Flamenco). The Middle East continues its slow spontaneous combustion and Egyptians protest again as they want the pharaohs back. Florida acquit a white man for killing a black boy, but give twenty years to a black women for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband. As you see, nothing worth reporting in the news. Still, you'll find links to a few interesting news stories after the jump:
There's still many more manga I'd like to comment about but, since the movie festivals season is arriving, I feel like watching and commenting on movies. I'll see about that...
We keep having the same weather pattern: a few days of heat wave followed by days and days of rain... It seems it's also the season of catastrophic events. Fire here, flood there (when it rains, it pours as they say). Plain crash here, train crash here and there! And the poor whistleblower is still stuck in the limbo of a russian airport (lesson: never blow the whistle on your government; big brother don't like that kind of music as it makes his enemies--and even some allies--dance an outraged Flamenco). The Middle East continues its slow spontaneous combustion and Egyptians protest again as they want the pharaohs back. Florida acquit a white man for killing a black boy, but give twenty years to a black women for firing a warning shot at her abusive husband. As you see, nothing worth reporting in the news. Still, you'll find links to a few interesting news stories after the jump:
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Fantasia 2013
The 17th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival will be held in Montreal from July 18 to August 7, 2013. Screenings will take place at the Cinéma Impérial, Concordia's J.A. De Sève theatre, the Cinémathèque Québécoise and at the Place des Arts. This year the festival is offering a lineup of over 120 feature films and more than 250 shorts. It will open with Takashi Miike's Shield of straw and will close with Edgar Wright's The world's end. For more details check the festival's web page at www.fantasiafestival.com.
Here our main interest is the asian programming which is offering over fifty movies from eight countries (besides Japan (33): South Korea (10), Hong Kong (4), and Taiwan (3), as well as China (1), Vietnam (1), Thaïland (1) and India (2)) and explores a multitude of genres and trends under the sign of diversity, audacity and celebration.
The Japanese selection presents thirty-three movies (including eight anime and three shorts). The notable live-action titles are the manga-related Gatchaman (international premiere), Library Wars (Canadian premiere, directed by Shinsuke Sato also known for Gantz), Rurouni Kenshin and Thermae Romae. The notable anime includes Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo by Hideaki Anno and Makoto Shinkai's Garden of Words. The shorts includes works by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Masaaki Yuasa (Mind Game) and Shuhei Morita (Kakurenbo: Hide & Seek).
You can also find information on Anime News Network and Coco Montreal.
See the complete list (with links to full description) after the jump:
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
L'image du mer-fleurie
Monday, July 08, 2013
Manga de Dokuha
Ma lecture récente de La Bible (2): Le Nouveau Testament m'a fait découvrir la collection Manga de Dokuha (et c'est sans doute la seule bonne chose que m'a apporté la lecture de ce manga).
J'ai souvent entendu parlé de classiques de la littérature adaptés en manga (ça n'a rien de nouveau: Tezuka a adapté Crimes et châtiments de Dostoïevski et le classique japonais Le dit du Genji [Genji monogatari] a aussi connu maintes adaptations). Mais quand il était question de titres comme Das Kapital de Marx ou Mein Kampf d'Hitler, je me disais qu'il fallait vraiment que je lise ça. Ce que j'ignorais c'est que la plupart de ces adaptations manga de grands classiques appartiennent en fait à une seule et même collection! Pour en faire la découverte...
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J'ai souvent entendu parlé de classiques de la littérature adaptés en manga (ça n'a rien de nouveau: Tezuka a adapté Crimes et châtiments de Dostoïevski et le classique japonais Le dit du Genji [Genji monogatari] a aussi connu maintes adaptations). Mais quand il était question de titres comme Das Kapital de Marx ou Mein Kampf d'Hitler, je me disais qu'il fallait vraiment que je lise ça. Ce que j'ignorais c'est que la plupart de ces adaptations manga de grands classiques appartiennent en fait à une seule et même collection! Pour en faire la découverte...
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Sunday, July 07, 2013
La Bible (2) : Le Nouveau Testament en manga!
“De la création du monde à la mort du Christ, redécouvrez le texte le plus lu au monde dans une version manga complète et riche. "que la lumière soit...". Dieu créa le monde par ces simples mots, avant de faire l'homme puis la femme. Ayant prospéré avec le temps, l'humanité oublia à plusieurs reprises la gloire de Dieu et devint orgueilleuse. Alors Dieu décida de détruire les hommes... avant de leur envoyer son fils pour racheter leurs fautes...” [ Résumé de la série sur le site de l'éditeur ]
“La vie du Christ qui a aidé et sauvé des gens par ses miracles. Une Église de plan international, des croyants à travers le monde entier et un livre sacré... « le Nouveau Testament » raconte la vie du fils de Dieu, Jésus-Christ, aussi appelé le « messie », incarné sur terre pour guider les Hommes vers le royaume de Dieu, mais aussi ses paroles et ses miracles. Un livre qui sert de pivot à l'enseignement du christianisme depuis 2000 ans.“ [ Texte de la couverture arrière ]
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“La vie du Christ qui a aidé et sauvé des gens par ses miracles. Une Église de plan international, des croyants à travers le monde entier et un livre sacré... « le Nouveau Testament » raconte la vie du fils de Dieu, Jésus-Christ, aussi appelé le « messie », incarné sur terre pour guider les Hommes vers le royaume de Dieu, mais aussi ses paroles et ses miracles. Un livre qui sert de pivot à l'enseignement du christianisme depuis 2000 ans.“ [ Texte de la couverture arrière ]
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Saturday, July 06, 2013
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
L'image du Mer-fleurie
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Les Vacances de Jésus et Bouddha (1)
“La divine colocation de Jésus et Bouddha. Après avoir oeuvré au bonheur de l'humanité pendant 2000 ans, les deux amis décident de prendre quelques vacances en louant un petit appartement sur Terre. Ils vont découvrir un mode de vie bien éloigné du paradis et vous offrir un regard inédit sur notre quotidien. Vous apprendrez ce que ressent Jésus quand on le prend pour Johnny Depp, ou ce que pense Bouddha de ces statues à son effigie, qui ont tant de succès dans les magazines de décoration.” [ Texte du site de l'éditeur ]
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Monday, July 01, 2013
Press Review (2013-07-01)
Since the usual Domestic Log part of this entry was a bit long this time, I devoted a separate item to it...
On the news side there wasn't any that stood out specifically, besides Apple's new keynote at the WWDC (announcing new iOS and Mac OS coming this fall). There was a few new hardware announcements (the stunning new Mac Pro) but the piece of equipment that I was expecting the most (an upgrade for the Airport Extreme) wasn't part of the keynote, although it was indeed released (and I quickly ordered it)!
However there was many news worthy of my interest and, as usual, I collected them to share with you right after the jump:
On the news side there wasn't any that stood out specifically, besides Apple's new keynote at the WWDC (announcing new iOS and Mac OS coming this fall). There was a few new hardware announcements (the stunning new Mac Pro) but the piece of equipment that I was expecting the most (an upgrade for the Airport Extreme) wasn't part of the keynote, although it was indeed released (and I quickly ordered it)!
However there was many news worthy of my interest and, as usual, I collected them to share with you right after the jump:
Domestic log (2013-07-01)
July already! It feels like lots have happened in the last three weeks. First, for the last couple of of weeks, I've not been feeling well: trouble digesting, feeling bloated, sometimes nauseated, trouble sleeping. It looks like some sort of mini-gastro with mild symptoms, probably due to (stress?) exhaustion and the heat (well, mostly humidity; summer came unnoticed, presenting itself with short heat-wave followed by days and days of rain). Despite feeling poorly, I managed to avoid taking sick days. Not that I wanted to but I simply couldn't. In the last week and a half, I've been running like crazy at work (like a headless chicken some says) to prepare for the summer activities. Of course, the people in charge always choose to put less employees for the busiest time and, since it is the summer, lots of employees take their vacation, so we end up with even less people or at least people with less training -- which always mean more work and trouble for me. Joy! I think it will be quite a busy summer. Hopefully, I'll be able to rest a little this long week-end.
Again, despite feeling poorly, it seems that my mind was on fire, since I managed also to be quite productive on this blog (I wrote no less than seven book commentaries, all in french: Les mimes des courtisanes by Lucian of Samosate, Le bain by Pascale Bougeault, Les métamorphoses by Apulée, Le maléfice de l'améthyste by Roger Leloup, Moi, Maru, Chat Enrobé by Mugumogu, Hokusai by Shōtarō Ishinomori, and Le vieux fou de dessin by François Place -- they all have shorter comments on Goodreads). And twenty blog entries total! Okay, I cheated a little since, for the summer, I've decided to include regular pictures of my cats (on saturday, i.e. cat-urday of course) and flowers (on wednesday, i.e. flowers-day?). And I still found time to visit the botanical garden and watch some TV with my wife (Murdoch Mysteries, Call the midwife, The Borgias, Father Brown, Copper is resuming and we are about to start Bleak House) or on my own (Continuum, Defiance, Mad Men, Falling Skies is finally resuming and the new promising show Under the dome) as well as a few movies (Argo, Brave, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Looper, Prometheus, Satyricon, Skyfall, To Rome with love, etc.). Really, I am telling you, on fire!
Since this Domestic Log was a bit long, I'll put the Press Review in a separate entry.
And (I almost forgot) Happy Que nada day!
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Again, despite feeling poorly, it seems that my mind was on fire, since I managed also to be quite productive on this blog (I wrote no less than seven book commentaries, all in french: Les mimes des courtisanes by Lucian of Samosate, Le bain by Pascale Bougeault, Les métamorphoses by Apulée, Le maléfice de l'améthyste by Roger Leloup, Moi, Maru, Chat Enrobé by Mugumogu, Hokusai by Shōtarō Ishinomori, and Le vieux fou de dessin by François Place -- they all have shorter comments on Goodreads). And twenty blog entries total! Okay, I cheated a little since, for the summer, I've decided to include regular pictures of my cats (on saturday, i.e. cat-urday of course) and flowers (on wednesday, i.e. flowers-day?). And I still found time to visit the botanical garden and watch some TV with my wife (Murdoch Mysteries, Call the midwife, The Borgias, Father Brown, Copper is resuming and we are about to start Bleak House) or on my own (Continuum, Defiance, Mad Men, Falling Skies is finally resuming and the new promising show Under the dome) as well as a few movies (Argo, Brave, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Looper, Prometheus, Satyricon, Skyfall, To Rome with love, etc.). Really, I am telling you, on fire!
Since this Domestic Log was a bit long, I'll put the Press Review in a separate entry.
And (I almost forgot) Happy Que nada day!
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