Category Archives: Cinema Botanica
friday’s clippings 4/6/12
I trust we’ve all safely arrived at the doorstep of this spring weekend relatively intact. My car is in the shop from a minor crash a few weeks back, my first since I can’t remember when, and the rental has … Continue reading
Posted in Bulbs, Cinema Botanica, clippings, creatures, journal, Plant Portraits, shop talk
Tagged Abbey Hotel, Allium schubertii, alliums, Bonhams, Chateau Marmont, Chelsea Hotel, Colony Collapse Disorder, Irish wolfhound, Jean Shrimpton, Rob Walls photographer, Rose 'Bouquet d'Or', Terence Stamp
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the uninvited
we are all on watch, just a little on edge here. closer and closer to the gloaming, only the fiercest colors now pierce the gathering dark while shy creatures creep out of hiding, feeling emboldened to assert their elemental natures … Continue reading
Devils in the Details
I’ve been pestering MB Maher to shake loose some more video work, and he keeps telling me the coffers are empty at the moment, that he’s hard at work on a new series on designers tentatively titled Field Studies. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design, garden visit, MB Maher
Tagged MB Maher, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz
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Succulent Experiments: A Tutorial
What a surprise that Apartment Therapy liked the hanging planters for succulents I blogged about recently. The ones made from…um…car jack stands. Which we just happen to have in abundance here at home because there’s a couple 1970’s Volkswagen vans … Continue reading
Ennis House
All Bladerunner fans, relax. Deckard’s house is safe. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis house in Los Angeles was used as a set for some of the scenes in Bladerunner. The Ennis House was released from a Wright family conservatorship in 2009 … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design
Tagged Bladerunner, concrete, Ennis House, Frank Lloyd Wright, Los Angeles architecture
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Big Daddy On The Move
“You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.” Maggie the Cat, daughter-in-law of Big Daddy, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Me, too, Maggie. It’s clearly going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design, MB Maher
Tagged Big Daddy's Antiques, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, MB Maher, Shane Brown, Tennessee Williams
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Armchair Spelunking
I’m a little excited this morning. Some clues… What do all these images have to do with each other? Explorers, cave paintings, spiritual communion with rocks… Ralph Fiennes as Count Laszlo Almasy, The English Patient; Anne-Louise Lambert as Miranda, Picnic … Continue reading
Cinema Botanica No. 2: Green Card
There’s only one reason this wisp of a movie, Green Card, was screened again at the Cinema Botanica. And that reason is the star of the movie, who literally oozes charm and charisma. For me, the star is indisputably the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica
Tagged Andie MacDowell, Gerard Depardieu, Green Card movie, Peter Weir, Vincent Cassel
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Cinema Botanica (In The Mood For Love)
Saturday night at Cinema Botanica. It was only a matter of time before I dragged movies into this blog ostensibly about plants. I’ve wanted to see this movie since it was released a decade ago, so I’m definitely late to … Continue reading
Eschscholtzia Day
Fine. California Poppy Day. But there’s a lot more Far Side of the World in the name Eschscholtzia. No, Paul Bettany hasn’t played the role of Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, at least that I’m aware of. That’s Bettany portraying the … Continue reading