'The Uncanny,' directed by Denis Héroux

Movie, 1977 Supernatural portmanteau horror, in which the evil nature of cats is visited and explored in three different stories, with some familiar faces, as well as a few relative heavyweights slumming it. A real low budget growler, with reasonably ok stories played out with lots of close-ups of agitated felines, fake paws and a load of Kensington Gore thrown in for good measure. The horror is…

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"Tombeau d'Henri II et Catherine de Médicis" (détail) marbre par le Primatice, Ponce Jacquio et Germain Pilon (1560-73) dans la Basilique-Cathédrale de Saint-Denis, mars 2023.

Germain Pilon, Monument to Henri II and Catherine de’ Medici (detail), ca. 1563-70, Marble Abbey Church, Saint-Denis. 

Il Cristo Risorto di Germain Pilon: un capolavoro rinascimentale

La scultura del giorno che vi propongo oggi è il Cristo Risorto scolpito dall’artista parigino Germain Pilon per la cappella Valois dell’abbazia di Saint-Denis, edificata per volere di Caterina de’ Medici. Si tratta di un’opera che non fu portata a termine dallo scultore che ha molto a che fare con l’anatomia e l’impostazione delle mie opere: basta osservare con attenzione il corpo possente del…

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HARTFORD WOLF PACK SEASON ENDS WITH 3-1 LOSS TO HERSHEY BEARS

By: Alex Thomas, Hartford Wolf Pack HARTFORD, CT – The Hartford Wolf Pack returned to the XL Center on Wednesday night, looking to stay alive in the 2023 Calder Cup Playoffs. However, the clock struck midnight on the Wolf Pack’s Cinderella run, as three unanswered goals led the Hershey Bears to a 3-1 decision and eliminated the Wolf Pack from the playoffs. Lucas Johansen potted the eventual game-winner 4:22 into the final stanza. A four-on-four sequence began after Beck Malenstyn and Will Cuylle were called for hooking penalties at 3:51 and 4:07, respectively. Mike Vecchione corralled the puck behind the Hartford net and snapped a pass to Johansen, powering into the slot. Johansen blasted the puck over the glove of Louis Domingue to give the Bears their first lead of the game and eventually send Hershey to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Wolf Pack opened the scoring late in the opening period. Ryan Carpenter collected the puck behind the Hershey net and attempted a wraparound that Hunter Shepard denied. The puck popped right back to Carpenter, who snuck a pass through the blue paint to Turner Elson streaking towards the goal. Elson unleashed a shot over a diving Shepard to give the Wolf Pack the game’s first lead. It was the second time Elson has found the twine in the playoffs. Hershey answered back just over the 15-minute mark of the second period. A delayed penalty was called against Hartford, and Vecchione collected the puck before the Pack could touch it up. Vecchione snapped a pass to Vincent Iorio, who sped into the offensive zone and ripped a shot that found the back of the Hartford net to even the contest at one. The goal was Iorio’s first career playoff marker. Hershey had an opportunity to take the lead when Sam Anas was awarded a penalty shot at 3:28 of the final stanza. However, Domingue made an excellent glove save to keep the score even and keep Hartford’s hopes alive. Johansen scored his first career Calder Cup Playoff goal at 4:22 of the third period, however, putting the Bears ahead for good in the deciding game of this series. Garrett Pilon tacked on an insurance marker at 7:25 of the third frame, burying the rebound from a Connor McMichael shot to put the Bears up by two. The Wolf Pack pushed for an answer late in the third period, with Domingue lifted in favor of the extra skater. However, Shepard held strong, preventing the Wolf Pack from working their way back into the tilt and sending the Bears to the Eastern Conference Finals. Make sure to follow the Wolf Pack on all their social media pages for information on the 2023-24 season. The Wolf Pack thank you for all of your support throughout the 2022-23 campaign, and we hope to see you in the fall! ABOUT THE HARTFORD WOLF PACK: The Hartford Wolf Pack has been a premier franchise in the American Hockey League since the team’s inception in 1997. The Wolf Pack is the top player-development affiliate of the NHL's New York Rangers and plays at the XL Center. The Wolf Pack has been home to some of the Rangers' newest faces, including Igor Shesterkin, Filip Chytil, and Ryan Lindgren. Follow the Wolf Pack on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. HARTFORD WOLF PACK HOME Read the full article

Il #Canada 🇨🇦 ha scelto come proprio rappresentante per gli #Oscar2023 per la categoria #BestInternationalFilm il documentario animato #EternalSpring di #JasonLoftus. TRAMA: Nel marzo 2002, una stazione televisiva in Cina viene occupata da membri del gruppo Falun Gong. Il loro obiettivo è contrastare la narrativa del governo sulla loro pratica repressiva. In seguito, le incursioni della polizia travolgono la città di Changchun e l'illustratore di fumetti Daxiong è costretto a fuggire in Nord America. Combinando filmati odierni con animazioni 3D ispirate all'arte di Daxiong, Eternal Spring dà vita a una testimonianza storica sulle strazianti persecuzioni del regime cinese. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/H_CM3hj1dik AWARDS: ha vinto 2 premi all' Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festivalun tra cui l'Audience Award, il Supreme Jury Award al Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, il Premio della Giuria al San Francisco Docfest, 2 premi al Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival tra cui miglior film. È la quarta volta dal 1971 che il Canada presenta un film in una lingua diversa da quella ufficiale francese. Infatti questo doc animato è in mandarino. Lo scorso anno fu scelto Les oiseaux ivres di Ivan Grbovic che però non ottenne la candidatura. Nella storia degli Oscar il Canada ha conquistato 7 nomination, vincendo l’ambita statuetta una sola volta nel 2004 con il film Le invasioni barbariche di Denys Arcand. 3 volte è riuscito ad entrare nella short-list dei semifinalisti: nel 2008 con L'età barbarica di Denys Arcand, nel 2009 con Ce qu'il faut pour vivre di Benoît Pilon e nel 2017 con Juste la fin du monde di Xavier Dolan. #OscarsSubmission #95rdOscars #95rdAcademyAwards #Oscars2023 #InternationalFeatureFilm https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrNwibD--G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The Midway AKA Parcours by Kathleen Weldon from the series Hothouse 10: Found Sound

WATCHING

C’est dans la joie et la bonne humeur que nous avons enregistré les voix des personnages de Mesdemoiselles les Palourdes avec nos amis du studio Miroslav Pilon à Lyon. 

Sous la coordination de Jean-Baptiste Cornier et avec les conseils de Mickaël Delalande le réalisateur, Bastien Ughetto (Dans la Maison, Le Chant du loup) prête sa voix au personnage de Martin, Sophie Tavert joue la Jeune femme et Denis Boileau (Les Mystérieuses cité d’or, Les Indestructibles) interprète le personnage de Monsieur Jean.

(de gauche à droite : Bastien Ughetto, Sophie Tavert, Jean-Baptiste Cornier)

The Tomb of Henri II and Catherine de Medici, 1560-73 - The bronze sculptures of the Virtues on the corners of the tomb are by Germaine Pilon.

Saint Denis Basilica Cathedral, north of Paris

PILON, Germain Effigies of Henri II and Catherine de' Medici 1583 Marble Abbey Church, Saint-Denis

DenMother — FRANTIC RAM (self released)

Sartre’s famous line that “hell is other people” is not actually about the potential suffering and frustration of putting up with our fellow human beings and their (real or perceived) inadequacies and cruelties. Instead he’s speaking to the way that we inescapably live conscious of the fact that we are under the apprehension of others, whether it’s specific people or just the generalized Other as instantiated by society and/or the various strictures we feel in our own heads. If anything, New Brunswick’s DenMother suggests, he might have been letting us off too easy. Sartre does acknowledge the way we often internalize the gaze of others even in the absence of their literal gaze (what else would you call socialization?), but on FRANTIC RAM DenMother takes us on something of a Dante’s Inferno of the self, progressing through and witnessing various personal spheres of challenge and torment in ways that reveal that the gaze of the Self can be just as painful and necessary as that of the Other.

DenMother’s Sabarah Pilon has been putting out albums for a decade now, and while 2011’s self-titled debut was already a strong debut of incantatory beats and layers of synths, capping her first decade of work with the vivid, head-spinning atmospheres of FRANTIC RAM feels like a real triumph. Here there are rites and prayers, dances and feasts, the aforementioned Dante, Jungian archetypes and the occult and personal reckoning and the claustrophobia of a global pandemic. It’s the kind of work you can only get when the artist has been mastering these tools and sounds and themes over the course of years and multiple works, and where pointing towards various stylistic roots (synthpop, industrial, the darkest of doomfolk) doesn’t really go far towards describing the singular effect of these songs. Looking for another record that shares some of FRANTIC RAM’s atmosphere you might pull in something like Holden’s The Inheritors, which also bends machines towards making something that feels primal, ritualistic, somehow pre-historic and pre-social.  

On these nine songs Pilon evokes furies and seances, nudes and gluttons, women who run with the wolves and birds of a feather covered in tar, self-abnegation (or even -destruction) and fearsome expressions of power. Several of the tracks built to moments of brutal reckoning, with her left gasping “we are imposters” or “I’m nothing else” (in a way that, as its repeated, begins to sound more like “I’m nothingness”). Whether it’s the harsh castigations of “BIRDS (Feast of the Gluttons)” or the imperial, nocturnal sweep of “KING (Idol Worship)”, these songs can feel simultaneously like one is witnessing an intensely intimate working and yet as if they are invoking the same kind of deep inner confrontation in the listener. Ultimately this is something one can only do for themself; as “REDEEMLESS (Dance of the Wretched)” puts it, “and who am I forgiving / if not myself? / and I am the bearer of all my guilt / and nothing else.”  

By the time of “FRANTIC RAM (Closing Prayer)” and the end of the album, both artist and listener may have attained a kind of fragile, uneasy peace with those elements of the self that just living in the world can cause to go astray or haywire, a detente that neither strays into denying our own power and agency nor allows us to run roughshod over ourselves or others. The descent through these various circles ultimately does not involve either rejecting these parts of one’s self nor just acting on pure instinct, without consideration, but instead an attempt to tame one’s self instead of either rampaging or allowing the sometimes painful distortions of some Other constraining you. The Inferno is revealed not truly as other people but the place we all live and struggle within, ourselves revealed not as the demons we feared, but merely human beings. However one wishes to follow Dante (strictly, loosely, or not at all), FRANTIC RAM demonstrates at least one part of his larger narrative still holds true; to attain any kind of neutral ground or even paradise, we must plumb this inferno first.  

Ian Mathers

Origine de l’expression « Ça lui fera une belle jambe »:

Lors de la profanation des sépultures royales de Saint-Denis en 1793, comme on cherchait à l’accoupler dérisoirement au corps désséché d’Henri IV, la jambe gauche du corps momifié de Catherine de Médicis s’était détachée à hauteur du genou. Un receveur du domaine nommé Bruley l’avait emportée. Sous l’empire, la jambe fut vendue par ses enfants au musée Tavet de Pontoise où l’on peut toujours la voir. D’où l’expression née du quolibet d’un Hébert ou d’un Fréron quelconque : « ça te fera une belle jambe! »

Au dire de Brantôme, Catherine l’avait fort belle et nous l’avions vérifié, coulée dans l’abandon d’un sommeil après l’amour par Germain Pilon, dans sa voluptueuse gisante d’un tombeau de Catherine dont il existait un moulage à l’école des beaux-arts.

Guy Dupré « le grand coucher »

(On notera la grande « classe » des bleus déjà à l’époque....)

The Last Abode

The Gothic basilica Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis, France), is built on a Gallo-Roman necropolis, burial place of Saint Denis, martyred around 250 CE. The transept of the building will then be used to accommodate royal, Merovingian, Carolingian, Robertian, and Capetian tombs. The monument that we know today is the result of a thousand of years of expansion, due to the reception of the royal necropolis.

(The photos show, in order: an external view of the south transept; the central portal of the basilica; detail of the effigies of Catherine de Medici and Henry II by Germain Pilon; the tomb of Louis XII and Anne of Brittany dating from the sixteenth century; the choir of the basilica; the ambulatory; the apse; the chapel of the Virgin; and finally, the nave. The original photos are not mine and are under free license)

Season 7: Episode 337 - ANTHOLOGY: The Uncanny (1977)/Stephen King's Cat's Eye (1985)

The Uncanny A 1977 British-Canadian anthology horror film directed by Denis Héroux, written by Michel Parry, and starring Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Joan Greenwood, Donald Pilon, Samantha Eggar, and John Vernon. Although it is similar to the horror anthologies released by Amicus Productions and could be mistaken as one, it was actually distributed by The Rank Organisation. However, the co-producer was Milton Subotsky of Amicus.

Cat's Eye (also known as Stephen King's Cat's Eye) This is a 1985 American anthology horror thriller film directed by Lewis Teague and written by Stephen King. It comprises three stories, "Quitters, Inc.", "The Ledge", and "General". The first two are adaptations of short stories in King's 1978 Night Shift collection, and the third is unique to the film. The three stories are connected only by the presence of a traveling cat, which plays an incidental role in the first two and is a major character of the third. Its cast includes...

Quand on parle d'art on parle souvent de sculpture grecque ou de l'art italien mais on oublie les magnifiques sculpture françaises ! En juillet je suis allé me balader au musée du Louvre et j'ai redessiné cette sculpture en 30 minutes. Petite histoire: Cette œuvre se nomme la résurrection , c'est une sculpture en marbre sculpté par Germain PILON un sculpteur parisien. Elle a été exécuté pour la chapelle funéraire d'Henri II à Saint-Denis. Commandé à l'atelier de Pilon en 1572 , néanmoins elle a été livré inachevé par la veuve du sculpteur à l'administration royale en 1609. J'espère que vous aimez ? 😄 - - #artiste #arte #art #arts #artist #drawing #dreams #drawings #draw #artwork #work #world #workout #castdrawing #sculpture #museum #fashion #forever #france #pencil #pen #paris #anatomie #land #landscape #louvre #love #jesus #gris #nature @museelouvre https://www.instagram.com/p/BmabG-UhPWR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=lioxtcpr9nc2