sorular ?

Perec okurken çokça karşıma çıktığı için aklıma takıldı. Artık kimseler bir kitabi birden fazla kez okumaz oldu. Fikir ya da kitap ne kadar çarpıcı olursa olsun, ne kadar etkileyici olursa olsun ikinci kez ya da birden çok kere kez okumak neredeyse düşünülemez bir olgu.

Yıllar geçtikten sonra bir kitaba geri dönme fikri bile neredeyse ortadan tamamen kalkmış durumunda. Oysa bir takım kitaplari yanlış zamanda okumuş olduğunu fark etmek ne kadar büyük bir keyiftir?
Bir yazarı ve\ya kitabı yeniden keşfetmek ne büyük mutluluktur.

Nerdeyse herkesin beğendiği filmi birçok kere seyretmekten hiç gocunmadığı bir dönemde ne yazık ki kitaplar için aynısını söyleyemiyoruz. Okumak ya da okumamak işte bütün mesele bu !

Sahi"?" nasıl ortaya çıkmış ?

Hoşuma giden laflar

"Bir eylemin yanıbaşında bir yorumlayan dikilir"

Noscitur a socio - one may judge a man from friends he keeps

Open - An autobiography Andre Agassi

I have recently read an autobiography by Andre Agassi. I must say it is one of the best sports biographies I have ever read. Very well written indeed. From personal life to all interesting matches he has played. I especially enjoyed the parts where he describes Sampras as a junior and their rivalry and relation through out their careers.

As a fan, I of course read the parts about Steffi Graff in great interest.

Great book about a great sports person although he denies it all the time :)

Ingmar Bergman - On Autumn Sonate

Insan durduk yere bir takım yazarlara/yönetmenlere/yaratıcı kişilere geri dönmüyor.

Dün gece Defnoş'la Ingmar Bergman'nın Güz Sonatını (Autumn Sonate) izledik. Anne ile kızının yada daha doğrusu kız ile annenin yüzleşme sahnesi o kadar etkileyici o kadar vurucuyduki filmin sonunda uzun süre kendimizi tartışır, konuşur, kendimize yansımalarını masaya  yatırır bulduk. Kadına bakışa ilişkin bu kadar kuvvetli kaç film vardır bilemedim.

Kiz kardeş,Koca gibi yan görunsede tamamlayıcı karakterlerin anlatımı da film kadar başarılı ama o ana - kız sahnesi yok mu o sahne !

Persona'dan sonra ikinci Bergman denememizdi, her ikiside çok etkileyiciydi. Daha sırada onlarca film var, günlerce etkileşim var...

Black Swan

One of the best movie of the year. Director Daren Aronofsky once again shows us how brilliant his technique is. Mostly shot by 16mm, you can feel the vibe and the tension throughout the movie. Sad to hear that he signed a contract to direct Wolverine part two...
Natalie Portman is brilliant as well.
Good way to end the year in terms of cinema...
We have a bunch of movies to watch, 1 down 102 to go...

Books - The lonely planet guide to Experimental Travel

This book was a gift from Sedos to us. I think she gave it 6 months ago and last night I had the chance to have a look at it. The co-writers Rachael Antony and Joel Henry were both enthusiastic travelers.

I can revise book in two sections.

The first part is the introduction and I must say this part interesting. It gives a brief information about 'tourists','tourism', traveling and sightseeing. I learned that the word' tourist' first introduced by Stendhal in his "les memories d'un Touriste" in 1811. First guide book was published by John Murray in 1820. It was " a guide for travellers on the Continent"

I purchased both books from Amazon, will mention them as soon as I receive them.

There are plenty of other interesting information on travelling in the introduction part. The rest of the book is on the games that were invented by those who seek for more in their travels. Some of them seems to be funny others doesn't seem fuuny or interesting to me. But its a good book to read of you are a into travel.

You can find the details on www.latourex.org

Sag ol Sedoooossssssshhhh

Documentaries

Defnos and I was watching a couple of documentaries last week.

We liked BBC Sahara documentary which was created by Michael Palin. The documentary stars from Gibraltar and then heads to Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and then comes back to Gibraltar and finishes where it all started.

The documentary is told in 4 episodes and I must say I was fascinated with episode 2. Where Palin takes us  from Senegal to Mali and then to Niger. Both the journey and the video is very strong in this episode. I must say most interesting part of Sahara journey is those areas as well. We fell in love with Mali once again and decided to take this part of the journey. The hardest part seems the train journey from Dakar to Mali which goes up to 35 hrs...

During the journey Palin was able to caught different cultures and people surrounding those cultures. I must admit his way of story telling is not ideal for me however its much more better than the ones we watched earlier this week.

Lonely planet Botswana and Namibia documentary was one of them. This Australian fellow was travelling in these lands and we were not able to tell what was his point and whether he liked the places he was travelling, well, thats his problem. On our end it was also impossible to capture the feeling of the places he was visiting. As it's a lonely planet series you assume its a budget travel and he tells in several places that he was sleeping in a budget camp site, again, it was impossible to understand if the places are good or bad or the only option. The route was almost the worst option possible. The camera was so so...

The other documentary that we had the chance to watch was agaon a BBC documentary. This time it ws about history of Namibia and first genocide of the 20th century. Germans on local herero people. Its sad to come across with those realities of history.. It's a 50 minute informative documentary. If anyone who plans to visit Namibia should watch this beforehand. It was a 2005 documentary if I am not mistaken.

We also started to watch Micheal Palin's 80- days around the world. Although its relatively old documentary we had fun watching first two episodes. Will fast forward the rest 5 episodes soon.

Now we plan to watch National Geography's Madagascar documentary.