Fronton is a small appellation consisting of 2,400 hectares. The wine is a blend of 65% Négrette and 35% Syrah. Négrette contributes a wonderfully silky texture and raspberry perfume the best wines. Aroma: Raspberry, blackberry, black cherry and licorice. Meaty. Palate: Definite tannins here in a thickly structured wine. The fruit is buried in theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Château Laurou Les Complices 2020 from Fronton”
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RKS 2024 Film (Short): The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Halycon Days”
A farm girl and an auto mechanic from a small Greek village are driving to the mayor’s office for their marriage ceremony but the officiant leaves the building before the ceremony joins the two as man and wife. They must return the following day. The camera work is brilliant in capturing facial expressions of theContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film (Short): The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Halycon Days””
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Maldives”
I read the writer and director’s statement (Daniel Bolda) about his film “Maldives” and had a chuckle as the film is, in my opinion, an open book capable of multiple interpretations. With all due respect and affection, I say Bolda is entitled to his interpretation as you and I are as well! Not that IContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Maldives””
RKS Travel: WC Blues on Long Airplane Flights
I have taken transatlantic flights with Air Canada, Air Transat, TAP Air Portugal, Lufthansa, SATA, EVA Air and most recently with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on Economy and Enhanced Economy fares. Their WC bathrooms start clean enough and in all instances, other than with EVA Air, the WC is after a few in-flight hours inContinue reading “RKS Travel: WC Blues on Long Airplane Flights”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Wishbone”
Sorry for jumping ahead here. Do you like “happy endings” and by that I don’t mean that term as used in that “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode with Larry David and his Korean masseuse I watched on my KLM flight from Thessaloniki to Toronto this week. There is no clear-cut ending here. Director Penny Panayotopoulou hasContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Wishbone””
RKS 2024 Wine: A Pinot Nero from Northern Italy
The winery is in Bolzano, Italy and I have passed through Bolzano several times on my way to Austria. It is 118 kms. from Innsbruck. Aroma: Smoky red cherry. Some red beet and milk chocolate. Palate: More or less the same as on the nose. Light with a micro coating of tannins that fades almostContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: A Pinot Nero from Northern Italy”
RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Riviera”
Alkisti (Eva Samioti) lives with her mother Anna (Maria Apostlakea) in a house on the Athenian Riviera letting out rooms to Greek and foreign tourists. Failed writer Petros and an elder couple the Hatzivasiliou’s are guests. Alkisti often expresses herself poetically. Alkisti describes the end of the world in literary terms asking her devil toContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: The 65th Thessaloniki International Film Festival: “Riviera””
RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter”
One of the most honoured Canadian films of all time, Atom Egoyan’s “The Sweet Hereafter” (1997) was nominated for 16 Genie Awards and won eight, including best picture, director and actor. It also won three major awards at the Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for adapted screenplay and director. Widely regarded asContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “The Sweet Hereafter””
RKS Travel: Stop That Continual Currency Comparison!
In a country with a different currency than your home country? Are you continually saying in “my currency” what would that amount to? Well, you aren’t in your country are you? Perhaps a better perspective would be, in most cases, to stop that comparison. Why not think local and act local as isn’t that theContinue reading “RKS Travel: Stop That Continual Currency Comparison!”
RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy
I returned two days ago from 10 days at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival where I watched and reviewed 20 movies. Three were Greek films about making a movie about a movie. They weren’t comedies as “All You Need is Blood” which is a movie about making a movie about making a movie. Bucky (LoganContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “All You Need is Blood”: A Bloody Interesting Targeted Audience Comedy”
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