Balconville
@mtljeff.bsky.social
In Montreal, writing about movies, music, wine and other good things in life. More at www.jeffheinrich.com. Previously at https://qoto.org/@montrealjeff.
Also updated my list of summer 2025 new releases with reviews of Vermiglio, Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, The Sons of Great Bear, High Noon, The Dresser, The Hireling, and a Zoltán Huszárik boxset. jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-... @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @indicator.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Also updated my list of summer 2025 new releases with reviews of Vermiglio, Who Wants to Kill Jessie?, The Sons of Great Bear, High Noon, The Dresser, The Hireling, and a Zoltán Huszárik boxset. jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-... @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @indicator.bsky.social
Been waiting years for this: Mephisto, Colonel Redl & Hanussen, three seminal German-language '80s dramas by Hungary's István Szabó, now restored and together on region-free Blu-ray from @secondrun.bsky.social. Also excited by a lovely Bille August twofer via MVD. jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2025-...
November 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Been waiting years for this: Mephisto, Colonel Redl & Hanussen, three seminal German-language '80s dramas by Hungary's István Szabó, now restored and together on region-free Blu-ray from @secondrun.bsky.social. Also excited by a lovely Bille August twofer via MVD. jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2025-...
Adding my voice to the many reminiscences: in 2012, daughter in tow, I met Jimmy Cliff backstage after he closed the Montreal International Reggae Festival. "My energy's up!" Memorable. montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...
November 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Adding my voice to the many reminiscences: in 2012, daughter in tow, I met Jimmy Cliff backstage after he closed the Montreal International Reggae Festival. "My energy's up!" Memorable. montrealgazette.com/entertainmen...
98 producers, 465 wines & Jonathan Gebser's lesson on the "slow wine" movement: for me, the Italian Trade Agency Canada's tasting event at Montreal's Marché Bonsecours also meant quaffing some lovely white Abruzzo blends and Aurelio Settimo's great Barolo 2019, now just arrived at the SAQ ($55).
November 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
98 producers, 465 wines & Jonathan Gebser's lesson on the "slow wine" movement: for me, the Italian Trade Agency Canada's tasting event at Montreal's Marché Bonsecours also meant quaffing some lovely white Abruzzo blends and Aurelio Settimo's great Barolo 2019, now just arrived at the SAQ ($55).
Nicholson & Garfunkel, Polanski, Ealing Studios & Basil Dearden: get to know them all a bit better via these four new Blu-ray and UHD releases from @indicator.bsky.social.
jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-...
jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-...
June 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Nicholson & Garfunkel, Polanski, Ealing Studios & Basil Dearden: get to know them all a bit better via these four new Blu-ray and UHD releases from @indicator.bsky.social.
jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-...
jeffheinrich.com/Summer-2025-...
Credit for this delightful photo should go to Montreal photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Pedro Ruiz. Here's his full-colour original in the daily newspaper Le Devoir: www.ledevoir.com/culture/cine...
May 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Credit for this delightful photo should go to Montreal photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Pedro Ruiz. Here's his full-colour original in the daily newspaper Le Devoir: www.ledevoir.com/culture/cine...
Meanwhile, in the world of #AI ... (Gros soupir)
- Le SIG: Tiens si on faisait faire une vidéo sur la célébration de la résistance par une l'IA.
- Les archivistes: ...
- Marcel Ophuls: (fait des tours dans son cercueil)
- Les archivistes: ...
- Marcel Ophuls: (fait des tours dans son cercueil)
Ce n'est même plus de la simple falsification de l'histoire, c'est montrer la résistance qui défile à côté d'un soldat allemand. Je ne sais pas quel ministère est responsable de cette honte, mais c'est un bon exemple de ce qui se produit quand on ne contrôle pas un "travail" effectué par IA.
May 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Meanwhile, in the world of #AI ... (Gros soupir)
#LEGACY When we met in Montreal in 2013 for a @ridm-festival.bsky.social career retrospective at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social, Ophuls wrote atop the cover of an old French film magazine he'd been featured in for 'The Sorrow and the Pity": "Le jeune cinéma n'est plus jeune. Il est vieux comme moi."
May 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
#LEGACY When we met in Montreal in 2013 for a @ridm-festival.bsky.social career retrospective at @cinemathequeqc.bsky.social, Ophuls wrote atop the cover of an old French film magazine he'd been featured in for 'The Sorrow and the Pity": "Le jeune cinéma n'est plus jeune. Il est vieux comme moi."
#OBIT I've always thought Canadian caricaturist Kerry Waghorn best captured the essence of #MarcelOphuls, who died Saturday at age 97: lips, glasses, jumper, slouch. And is that outstretched hand begging for funding or simply making a point?
May 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
#OBIT I've always thought Canadian caricaturist Kerry Waghorn best captured the essence of #MarcelOphuls, who died Saturday at age 97: lips, glasses, jumper, slouch. And is that outstretched hand begging for funding or simply making a point?
Just getting to this, but oooph, what a harmonious musical experiment for our dissonant times. A big bravo!
Jacob Collier working his magic on the National Symphony Orchestra here in D.C. not long ago.
youtu.be/TURkB9zqxa0
youtu.be/TURkB9zqxa0
Jacob Collier Improvises the National Symphony Orchestra (Live from the Kennedy Center)
YouTube video by Jacob Collier
youtu.be
April 29, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Just getting to this, but oooph, what a harmonious musical experiment for our dissonant times. A big bravo!
Reposted by Balconville
Remembering Alec Guinness on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Ward, 1985
"There was nothing he lacked, as far as I could see, except tact."
- John Gielgud
📷 Michael Ward, 1985
"There was nothing he lacked, as far as I could see, except tact."
- John Gielgud
April 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Remembering Alec Guinness on his birthday 🎂
📷 Michael Ward, 1985
"There was nothing he lacked, as far as I could see, except tact."
- John Gielgud
📷 Michael Ward, 1985
"There was nothing he lacked, as far as I could see, except tact."
- John Gielgud
Tweets in a blue sky, cries of intelligent life: the birds and us.
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
The results tell us a lot!
Extracts below... 🧵
April 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tweets in a blue sky, cries of intelligent life: the birds and us.
Two new #Blu-ray releases to start your spring: a boxset of early 1960s "krimis" featuring the evil "Dr. Mabuse," and a farce from the #Czech New Wave about musicians in crisis.
My reviews: jeffheinrich.com/Spring-2025-... @secondrun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jhv...
My reviews: jeffheinrich.com/Spring-2025-... @secondrun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jhv...
Prípad Barnabáš Kos (1964) - upútavka | trailer
YouTube video by Slovenský filmový ústav
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March 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Two new #Blu-ray releases to start your spring: a boxset of early 1960s "krimis" featuring the evil "Dr. Mabuse," and a farce from the #Czech New Wave about musicians in crisis.
My reviews: jeffheinrich.com/Spring-2025-... @secondrun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jhv...
My reviews: jeffheinrich.com/Spring-2025-... @secondrun.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jhv...
For you, Mel, whoever and wherever you think you are.
"Who Do You Think You Are?" / "Let's Be Sensible" / "Auf Wiedersehen" / "Pop Goes Your Heart." Recorded in London on February 15, 1934 by Carroll Gibbons and His Boy Friends with singer Anne Lenner.
#78rpm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eid...
#78rpm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Eid...
Caroll Gibbons, Old TIme Radio Show, 1934 Who Do You Think You Are
YouTube video by The Classic Archives Old Time Radio Channel
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February 16, 2025 at 1:31 AM
For you, Mel, whoever and wherever you think you are.
Winter can be such a drag ... but if you like to watch, here are some new Blu's: jeffheinrich.com/Winter-2024-... Early works by Douglas Sirk, an 8-hour doc, a Nouvelle Vague love triangle, and doings Down Under. @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @viavisionent.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia
a man in a green dress is holding a green cloth
Alt: Looking glam in green, Guy Pearce plays Adam (aka Felicia Jollygoodfellow) in the classic Australian road movie "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" (1994).
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February 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Winter can be such a drag ... but if you like to watch, here are some new Blu's: jeffheinrich.com/Winter-2024-... Early works by Douglas Sirk, an 8-hour doc, a Nouvelle Vague love triangle, and doings Down Under. @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @viavisionent.bsky.social #PhysicalMedia
#Top10BleakSongs
#MusicChallenge
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
youtu.be/Yf3LojyK7PA
#MusicChallenge
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
youtu.be/Yf3LojyK7PA
One
YouTube video by Aimee Mann - Topic
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January 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
#Top10BleakSongs
#MusicChallenge
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
youtu.be/Yf3LojyK7PA
#MusicChallenge
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do."
youtu.be/Yf3LojyK7PA
"Most of all / When snowflakes fall / I wish you love."
From French TV, Blossom Dearie plays & sings Charles Trenet's "I wish you love"
With Jacques Hess, bass & Franco Manzecchi, drums
Plus a cool four-hands blues with pianist Jack Dieval
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGj...
With Jacques Hess, bass & Franco Manzecchi, drums
Plus a cool four-hands blues with pianist Jack Dieval
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hGj...
Blossom Dearie - I wish you love + Impro blues (Live french TV 1965)
YouTube video by Les Chanteuses Échevelées
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January 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Most of all / When snowflakes fall / I wish you love."
Boxsets & Blu-rays, covers & commentaries, distributors & DVDs: 186 reviewers (including me) choose the best of 2024 in DVDBeaver's annual poll:
www.dvdbeaver.com/30/blu-ray_a... @indicator.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @trailersfromhell.bsky.social #physicalmedia
www.dvdbeaver.com/30/blu-ray_a... @indicator.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @trailersfromhell.bsky.social #physicalmedia
Best 4K UHDs and Blu-rays of 2024
www.dvdbeaver.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Boxsets & Blu-rays, covers & commentaries, distributors & DVDs: 186 reviewers (including me) choose the best of 2024 in DVDBeaver's annual poll:
www.dvdbeaver.com/30/blu-ray_a... @indicator.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @trailersfromhell.bsky.social #physicalmedia
www.dvdbeaver.com/30/blu-ray_a... @indicator.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social @trailersfromhell.bsky.social #physicalmedia
Born a century-and-a-half apart but united by notes on a music sheet: French composer Mel Boris and Quebec pianist Élisabeth Pion. They featured yesterday in an 'Off Bach' concert at the 18th Montreal Bach Festival. Playful, soulful, Romantic – the miniatures sing! atmaclassique.com/en/product/f...
December 4, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Born a century-and-a-half apart but united by notes on a music sheet: French composer Mel Boris and Quebec pianist Élisabeth Pion. They featured yesterday in an 'Off Bach' concert at the 18th Montreal Bach Festival. Playful, soulful, Romantic – the miniatures sing! atmaclassique.com/en/product/f...
At its popular 'Off Bach' series of free shows on St. Laurent Blvd., organizers like to ask: "How many of you also plan on attending one of our (paid) evening concerts?" Well, count me in: I just bought the last ticket for this, tomorrow night: festivalbachmontreal.com/en/concerts/...
December 2, 2024 at 2:03 AM
At its popular 'Off Bach' series of free shows on St. Laurent Blvd., organizers like to ask: "How many of you also plan on attending one of our (paid) evening concerts?" Well, count me in: I just bought the last ticket for this, tomorrow night: festivalbachmontreal.com/en/concerts/...
Tenebrous: young Sandy Ratcliff casts a long shadow in Ken Loach's psycho-drama 'Family Life' (1971). Satirical: on the campaign trail, Cupid's arrows fly 'Left Right and Centre' (1959). New to Blu-ray, exclusive to Canada and the U.S., from @indicator.bsky.social.
jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-...
jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-...
December 2, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Tenebrous: young Sandy Ratcliff casts a long shadow in Ken Loach's psycho-drama 'Family Life' (1971). Satirical: on the campaign trail, Cupid's arrows fly 'Left Right and Centre' (1959). New to Blu-ray, exclusive to Canada and the U.S., from @indicator.bsky.social.
jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-...
jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-...
Topping up my reviews of new releases on Blu-ray this fall, I peer into the obscure (an early '60s Czech musical called 'The Hop-Pickers') and revisit a Japanese classic (Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'): jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-... @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social
a black and white photo of two men standing on a dirt road holding swords .
ALT: a black and white photo of two men standing on a dirt road holding swords .
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November 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Topping up my reviews of new releases on Blu-ray this fall, I peer into the obscure (an early '60s Czech musical called 'The Hop-Pickers') and revisit a Japanese classic (Kurosawa's 'Seven Samurai'): jeffheinrich.com/Autumn-2024-... @secondrun.bsky.social @criterion.bsky.social
I'm now here, after 10 years on Twitter and two on Mastodon. Aerial artwork is by Jocelyn Blouin, hanging in my bathroom.
November 14, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I'm now here, after 10 years on Twitter and two on Mastodon. Aerial artwork is by Jocelyn Blouin, hanging in my bathroom.