Author Archives: Natalia Antonova

Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya

I only really like Jude Law in “Cold Mountain,” where he’s mostly bleeding from bullet holes: Maybe I’m secretly a sadist. “Cold Mountain” wasn’t that terrific of a movie, so I’m not sure why it is that I always come back to it. Pathos? Rednecks? Your guess is as good as mine. My other comfortContinue reading “Comfort food: WP Inman, Enya”

Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on

Skinny Love – Bon Iver Abel – the National The Time of Times – Badly Drawn Boy Grace Kelly – Mika Your Labios as Tulips – Pascal Comelade All I Need – Radiohead Dancing Barefoot – Patti Smith Under My Thumb – the Rolling Stones Hey Jupiter – Tori Amos Don’t Think Twice, It’s AllContinue reading “Monday music: you’re the reason I’m traveling on”

My own best movies of the 00’s

In honour of Mark’s “10 best movies of the fearsome decade.” Just keep in mind that I was not that great of a moviegoer this decade before you start pelting me with rotten food items. For what it’s worth, I tried to be somewhat objective, and did not include merely a clutch of my favouriteContinue reading “My own best movies of the 00’s”

R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov

“Seventeen Moments of Spring,” where Tikhonov played his arguably most famous and iconic role, always gave me the warm fuzzies with its ending. It talked about how this Soviet spy, who doesn’t yet know that the war will be ending later in the year, in May, is going to Berlin to continue with his work.Continue reading “R.I.P. Vyacheslav Tikhonov”