samedi 29 décembre 2012

Hopper For Ever !






This blog post is about Edward Hopper (1882-1967), and more especially about the paintings that inspired a series of short stories I'm currently reading : Portraits of America by Glenda Stewart-Langley. I had difficulties reading it since the book does not provide any reproductions. So here they are...







Painting  1. Notre Dame de Paris ,1907.

















Painting   2. Automat, 1927

Painting  3.People in the Sun, 1960
Painting 4. Table for Ladies, 1930


Painting 5 : Girlie Show, 1941

Paitning 6: Morning in a city, 1944
Painting 7 : Two on the Aisle, 1927
Painting 8: Office at Night, 1940

Painting 9 : Drugstore, 1927


Painting 10 : Excursion into Philosophy, 1959


Painting 11 : Seawatchers, 1952

Painting 12 : South Carolina Morning, 1955
Painting 13 : Sunlight on Brownstones 1956
 Painting 14 : New York Office, 1962


Painting 15 :  Pennsylvania Coal Town, 1947

Painting 16: Ryder's House 1933


Painting 17 : Early Sunday Morning 1930


Painting 18 : Chair Car, 1965

Painting 19: New York Pavements, 1924


Painting 20. Morning Sun, 1952

 Painting 21 : Hotel by a Railroad, 1952


Painting 22 : Apartment Houses , 1923


Painting 23 : Night Windows, 1928

Painting 24: Room in New York, 1944

Painting 25:  Interior( Model Reading), 1925

Painting 26 : Conference at Night , 1949

Painting 27, New York Restaurant,  1922

Painting 28, A woman In the Sun, 1961



Painting 29: Chop Suey, 1929


Painiting 30 : Intermission, 1963


Painting 31  : Four Lane Road, 1956


Painting 32 :Second Story Sunlight, 1960



My own personal Hopper museum :)

lundi 5 novembre 2012

Full movies in English for children 1 : Disney 2

Alice in Wonderland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vxg8CRyE1g

Bambi 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foxQmrPJAJo

Dumbo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKoKVa9HWH0

The Lion King
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9658QnAycvw

Fantasia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPlKN8VCQTg


Lady and the Tramp 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5RvXF3jCkc

 The classic Pinocchio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC1Ce2ShBTY

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPElLWTyb4




Full Movies in English for Children 1 : Disney

Full Movies in English 6 : Science-Fiction or Fantasy



The Shawshanks Redemption
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WPb5sBaWT4

Memento 2000
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_E1tWBAnCs

Artificial Intelligence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIq0-J7ppUU

Full movies in English 5 : War Movies



Paths of Glory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rquqgx_Z9A

I was a male war bride 1949
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGTiEYEoQLQ

Pearl Harbor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDzrzFO9FRY

Wind Talkers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxI2_a_siEI

Lord of war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0PiUSawngs

The Hurt Locker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCY1PCIAv8

Full movies in English 4 : Civilization topics



Guess  who's coming to dinner (with sidney poitier , katherine hepburn etc => racism)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCAaEbCDovQ

Gandhi (=> India)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27lMS76hGG0


Jesus Camp (a documentary about an evangelical summer camp):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDe6wcerxD8

Whale Rider (=> maori culture)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNmyq4SNqGo

Amazing Grace (slavery) 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBjvQ7GN47I

Mary Queen of Scots (1971)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WthFp6cq464

Full movies in English 3 : Literary adaptations


A room with a view
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd1_zKPjlog

Moby Dick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F73Kt1_FEn8

Moby Dick 1956

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F73Kt1_FEn8

Treasure Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y-oZoN_JP0

Lord of the Flies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nIJ1630By8

Full movies in English 2 : Old Classics


The Lady from Shanghai 1948 (orson welles, rita hayworth)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF87-4teb-c

12 Angry Men (John Fonda)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0NlNOI5LG0

Black Narcissus (1947, with Deborah Kerr)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG-0x5mbNLM


Irma La Douce (shirley Mclaine and jack lemmon)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9O-jdOlFM

His Girl Friday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rdSZUlzIQw

Misery (kathy Bates)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVeW97sTz4

Rainman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6treaJ50Aw


The Party (with Peter Sellers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3OJNeRt-QQ

Some like it hot (Marilyn Monroe)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o3ZhybaZ_s

Full movies in English 1 : Hitchcock


Notorious (11 parts)   http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCIkN-yWxUBBQ


The Rope  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTo7myWPhac

The 39 steps 1935 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4v7vUIm4Ws

The lady  vanishes 1938  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaVH8A14hWs

Rebecca  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iQIuQBzhP0

Under Capricorn  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRnfwut0cpI