Monthly Archives: May 2016
Jagalchi Cat
Mean tomcats lurking in the shadows.
Films set in San Francisco
The Conversation (1974) Francis Ford Coppola
Harold and Maude (1971) Hal Ashby
The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77) William Hale TV Series
Escape from Alcatraz (1979) Don Siegel
Blue Jasmine (2013) Woody Allen
Play It Again, Sam (1972) Herbert Ross | Diane Keaton and Woody Allen |
The Graduate (1967) Mike Nichols
The Man in the High Castle (2015) Created by Frank Spotnitz
TV Series.
Chan is Missing (1982) Wayne Wang
The Rock (1996) Michael Bay
Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
Maltese Falcon (1941) John Huston
Dogfight (1991) Nancy Savoca
Zodiac (2007) David Fincher.
Tales of the City (1993) Alastair Reid Miniseries
The Birds (1963) Alfred Hitchcock
Dirty Harry (1971) Don Siegel
Milk (2008) Gus Van Sant
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993) Rob Cohen
Bullitt (1968) Peter Yates
And the Band Played On (1993) Roger Spottiswoode (TV docudrama)
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) Robert Stone
Patty Hearst (1988) Paul Schrader
American Graffiti (1973) George Lucas
The Joy Luck Club (1993) Wayne Wang
via wikimedia
Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985) Wayne Wang
San Francisco (1936) Woody Van Dyke | Clark Gable & Jeanette MacDonald |
Dark Passage (1947) Delmer Daves | Bogart & Bacall
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) Chris Columbus
Protected: The Visual Story (III)
Protected: The Visual Story (II)
Protected: The Visual Story (I)
Impala
Jaseongdae | 자성대 | 子城臺
Headed over to Busanjin to explore the 400-year-old remains of a Japanese castle.
Found lots of walkers.
Found a couple of shrines.
Got off the main path and followed the trail around the hill.
Found Mōri Terumoto‘s fortress walls. 
Jinjiseong at the top of the hill in the Korean style of contruction. 
West Gate reconstruction (1974) in Korean style.
See Japanese Castles in Korea 1592-98 post.
See Fortress Cats post.
Egges or eyren
Listened to Episode 75: Mixed Languages and Scrambled Eggs
From Old English to early Middle English.
Northern England’s English had Nordic influences. Southern England and Normandy had French influences.
Old English had many dialects.
The northern Old English dialect used the Old Norse word egges for eggs. It became the standard word for eggs throughout England. The southern Old English dialect word was eyren. See Kentish dialect. See William Caxton.
“Caxton is credited with standardising the English language through printing—that is, homogenising regional dialects.” (Wikipedia entry on William Caxton)
See Caxton’s egg
The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle via wikimedia
Old English dialects: Mercian, Northumbrian, West Saxon, and Kentish.
See Old Norman, and Anglo-Norman.
. Rise of the London dialect. Early Modern English. Use of new printing technologies from China and its influence in the standardization of English.
Orient Express
Watched Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Dir. Sidney Lumet. DP: Geoffrey Unsworth (2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)). Editor: Anne V. Coates (Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Chaplin (1992), Out of Sight (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000)). Albert Finney as Poirot.
To watch from Sidney Lumet:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Serpico (1973)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)