Cats!!!! and Films!!!!!!!

[alexandral]

Cats and all such things

This was a very eventful weekend:

Huzzah! Mr. Alexander is my darling love. He has gotten me a KITTEN!!!!!! Lovely playful 8 weeks old, taby white, totally gorgeous. Sasha named him BART (like Bart Simpson). I am totally full of love for him. He has blue eyes. And he has this wild dash time when he runs around like mad. And he is not afraid of Sky-the dog. And he likes to sit on my lap while I am on computer and catch posts scrolling by. AAAWWWW! I am so happy!

I watched “Earth” “Fire”. I am in love with “Earth”; from the beginning until the end it squeezed my heart and would not let it go. As tragic as the theme was, exploring the lives of few friends from the different religion groups during the Pakistan/India divide, it didn’t leave me with feeling of helplessness before the forces of political powers, but rather made me believe again that it is up to us as people to choose how we personally behave during the time of testing. I adored the main heroine Shanta (Nandita Das) and Hassan (Rahul Khanna).

I liked “Fire” very much too, but I found it very hard to watch a day-to-day routine of the Indian women where their life is just to cook, raise children and look after their husbands. I know for definite I would not survive a life like that. Never.

I have watched “Statsky Sovetnik”, or “Counselor of State” with Oleg Menshikov. This is an adaptation of the novel by Boris Akunin, very popular recent Russian crime writer. I liked this film for it’s nostalgic value (I get really home-sick some days) and because it has 4 of the best Russian actors in one place!!!!!! ( But with the facial hair). I missed elegant and old-fashioned prose of the original book. I included some screencaps from this film, non-spoilery. It is a crime story set in 19-th century.

Konstantin Khabensky – the star of "Night Watch", Green-the-freedom-fighter in "Counselor of State". Yum!!!


Nikita Mikhalkov – he is better known as a brilliant Russian director of "Burned by the Sun". He is an amazing actor too. He likes wearing moustache even in RL. He plays Prince Pozharsky of police department


Vladimir MAshkov He played Rogozin in "Idiot". Very intense. He plays the crime element Kozyr in "Counselor of State"


Oleg Menshikov - I love him, he plays the main hero Erast Fandorin. He is THE BEST! But why mascara?????


Some snowy images of Russia and Moscow.. AWWWWWWW!

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Very lovely pictures. I like the books, but the facial hair is making me cry. Well, not really, but not a mustache fan.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I know! I am not a fan of moustaches at all. But I guess they used to wear moustaches A LOT in the Imperial Russia. Total no-win. I don't mind Nikita Mikhalkov's moustache because I can't imagine him without it, though.. :)

[ginger001]

You finally watched the Oleg Menshikov's movie! Yay! I hope I manage to watch my copy soon so I can ask you things now that you have it fresh...

Congrats on your new cat! How cute!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I liked "Counsellor of State" a great deal - it has beautiful scenery and Oleg Menshikov!! It is an easy-to-watch film as well.

Cat is great. I am so happy now!!!!!!!!

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

Yay kitten! My best wishes to Bart and his new family. He sounds adorable. Blue eyes and taby white - too cute.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

He stole my heart :).

In vaguely connected - We have Russian shop now in Wakefield and I saw "Master and Margarita" DVD for rent there! I didn't grab it as soon as I saw it because tomorrow I have to go to work.. I hope it is still there on Saturday!

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

KITTY!!!!!! I'm so happy for you. I find there's nothing like a cat for making me happy.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

We were sitting having dinner on Sunday and talking about pets and I was going on about how much I want a kitten and then Mr.Alexander says - "We can go and have a look at one tomorrow". EEEEEEEEE! He is gorgeous!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

I LOVE Menshikov too! I recently got "East West" because there's him AND Sergei Bodrov (poor boy!) and he's so awesome in it, even if the Sandrine Bonnaire character bugs me a little quite a lot.

Also, yay for the kitty! Pictures soon, I hope!

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Also, yay for the kitty! Pictures soon, I hope

I am building a case "Why do I need a digital camera". :)

Sandrine Bonnaire character bugs me a little quite a lot

!! I thought it is just me.. :) I felt a little "O dear, you have no choice, please get on with it!!!"

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

Aw! You have a kitty. And I love the name. My kitty is tabby and white as well. He has no fear and I love him. :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Is it him on photo? He is gorgeous! Am I correct in thinking that you rescued him??

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

No, he's not one of my rescue cats. My yellow tabby Felix is a cat I rescued though.

Kip is technically my daughter's cat. I got him from a friend of my Mother's whose cat had a litter. He was a birthday present. He is probably the coolest cat we've ever had.

Yes, that's him in the icon when he was a kitten. :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Kip has great markings - all grey and white like this! It always amazes me how they can keep themselves so WHITE!!!

[endlessdeep.livejournal.com]

It amazes me how they stay so white too. But he has been known to come home with muddy paws and burrs in his fur. But he stays amazingly clean other than that.

He has a patch of fur on his belly that looks just like a patch of leopard fur.

[kiaforrest.livejournal.com]

I looooooove kitties - except at 4 a.m. when they are dancing in my hair! Then I ponder slippers while Trying to roll over and not get scalped in the process ::grin::

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Hee! They must be doing pretty racket when it is 3 or 4 of them!!!! Once I had two kitties and they used to make a tornado when playing.. :)

[juprujac.livejournal.com]

Lovely playful 8 weeks old, taby white, totally gorgeous.
You must take a picture of Bart for us.

I haven’t heard of the book. I love crime stories and am always looking for new things to read (even though I doubt I will ever get to read all the books on my to-read-list). The movie sound interesting, I’ll see if I can find it here.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am not sure if Akunin's books are translated to the other languages. He is a relatively recent writer, though he is taking Russia like storm , may be because his stories mainly take place in the beautifully nostalgic past and also his prose is very intelligent and easy to read at the same time.

I need a digital camera :(.

[elspethsheir.livejournal.com]

I meant to respond to this before, to ask - is Oleg Menshikov a common name? I know of two Russian men locally with this name, and I'm pretty certain that neither of them is the actor. (Hee!) The movie intrigues me!

And huzzah for Bart! I'm sure that he will love his new home.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Oleg Menshikov is a common name, both name and surname. I liked the movie, it was very beautifully made, though a little predictable. Oleg was in one of my favourite films, "Prisoner of the Mountains". If you haven't seen this movie, I really recommend it - it is an amazingly truthful film about the Chechen's wars.

Bart is gorgeous!!!!!

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeee!!! Congrats on the kitty!!!!!!!! :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

EEEE! The funny thing is that the kitten is cheeky and pestering the dog. And Sky is afraid of him, she is all "Why is he doing this to me?". I can't stop giggling.