8 giugno 2011

Cheesecake ai frutti di bosco

Hello to everyone!! I have just made my fantastic cheese cake, yeeeeeah!! that's delicious and beautiful ...
The only drawback: soft fruits aren't very sweet ...
Here u are...



I haven't used any philadelphia, no cream and jelly.... only Mascarpone, ricotta and eggs...:-)
I posted the recipe 2 days ago...
Kisses

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6 giugno 2011

What is love?

Hi guys do u remember this??

Isn't it melancholy? I think it is... I was just a little girl or still a baby I don't remember exatly the year! In any case I'll post some love  pain picts, right to stay in theme...


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5 giugno 2011

L'ERBA DI GRACE

Friday night, my boyfriend's home..., the weather was terrible, rain, wind, thunder and lightning ...So I decided to watch a downloaded movie in the bed... I opted for Saving Grace... very good idea... just a good movie: sparkling, harp and ironic! Over the limits of plausible!! here you are some pict, it was filmed in Cornwall, a really nice place for my taste! but I can't tell u exactly where...on the web and I found no reference to that little village on the sea ... anybody knows?

..... 30 minutes later...
I have just found the name... boscastle!!! thank to google.com

SAVING GRACE

Saving Grace is a 2000 British comedy film, directed by Nigel Cole and based on a screenplay by Mark Crowdy and Craig Ferguson. It was co-produced by Fine Line Features, Homerun Productions, Portman Entertainment, Sky Pictures, and Wave Pictures and filmed in London and the villages of Boscastle and Port Isaac in Cornwall, starring Brenda Blethyn, Ferguson, and Martin Clunes, among others. Distributed by 20th Century Fox in major territories, the film premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, where it won Cole the Audience Award for World Cinema.[2]
Critical reaction to the film was generally positive and it received favorable notice for an independent British comedy film, eventually grossing $24,325,600 worldwide, following its theatrical release in the United States.[1] In addition, the picture was awarded by the Norwegian International Film Festival and the Munich Film Festival, also spawning a BAFTA Award nomination for Crowdy,[2] and ALFS Award, Golden Globe and Satellite Award nominations for Blethyn and her performance.[2]
Plot
Prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself unexpectedly widowed, in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts that her late husband had been accruing for years, and faced with losing her house. She decides to use her talent for horticulture, and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis. Grace and her gardener's efforts to hide their illegal enterprise from the quaint and curious townsfolk and market their product compose the remainder of the film.

Reception

 Commercial success

The film was released on 19 May 2000 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it grossed £3,000,000 during its theatrical run.[3] Although it took only a tenth of simultaneously-released Gladiator's box office haul, Saving Grace was, however, considered a "good showing" in consideration of the film's low budget.[3]
In the United States the film opened on 4 August 2000, where it soon emerged as a small box-office surprise during the slow-seasoned summer.[3] Having originally opened at 30 screens,[3] it was eventually showing on more than 870 theatres (Fine Line had only planned to open it across 200 screens) during its most successful weeks in early September 2000, when Saving Grace averaged takings of $3,351 per theatre - more than hits like X-Men and Hollow Man.[1][3] It eventually grossed £12,178,600 overseas.[1]

Critical reaction

The critical reception of the film was fairly positive, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a 62% Fresh approval,[4] and the review scores aggregate website Metacritic giving it a 62/100 rating.[5] Jonathan Crow from Allmovie gave the film three out of five stars, calling it "wacky British comedy" with a "Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978)" effect.[6] Roger Ebert gave the film a "two thumbs up" rating,[7] stating that "the setup of Saving Grace is fun, and Blethyn helps by being not just a helpless innocent but a smart woman who depended too much on her husband and now quickly learns to cope."[7] However, he criticized the film for its "more or less routine" ending: "We're left with a promising idea for a comedy, which arrives at some laughs but never finds its destination."[7] Dana Stevens from The New York Times called the film "this summer's bait for the Anglophiles," meaning "that they're English and elderly apparently makes their antics screamingly funny to people who would turn up their noses at similar humor in a film like Scary Movie."[8]

Cast

  • Brenda Blethyn as Grace Trevethyn, a middle-aged newly widowed woman who is faced with the prospect of financial ruin and turns to growing marijuana under the tutelage of her gardener in order to save her family home. Blethyn, who was Ferguson's first choice, signed on the movie two years before shooting.[9]
  • Craig Ferguson as Matthew Stewart, Grace's gardener. Ferguson created the playful character with himself in mind. "I saw him as a decent chap who happens to like a bit of marijuana," Ferguson said. "He really cares about Grace and he wants to save her."[10]
  • Martin Clunes as Dr. Martin Bamford, a friend of Matthew. Clunes' character was spun off into a pair of "prequel" films focusing on how he ended up in Cornwall, and later reworked into the ITV television series Doc Martin, which states in its ending credits that the character was derived from the film Saving Grace.
  • Valerie Edmond as Nicky, Matthew's frowning girlfriend. Edmond won the role of the village's fishing captain in a large open casting call.[10]
  • Tcheky Karyo as Jacques Chevalier
  • Jamie Foreman as China MacFarlane
  • Bill Bailey as Vince
  • Diana Quick as Honey Chambers
  • Tristan Sturrock as Harvey
  • Phyllida Law as Margaret Sutton
  • Linda Kerr Scott as Diana Skinner
  • Leslie Phillips as Rev. Gerald Percy
  • Paul Brooke as Charlie
  • Ken Campbell as Sgt. Alfred Mabely
  • Clive Merrison as Quentin Rhodes

Soundtrack

Music from the Motion Picture album

Saving Grace
Soundtrack album by Various Artists
Released15 May 2000
GenrePop
Rock
Film music
LabelWEA
ProducerMark Russell
Track Listing
  1. "Introduction" (Mark Russell) – 1:02
  2. "Grace's Theme" (Mark Russell) – 2:42
  3. "Take a Picture" (Filter) – 5:55
  4. "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" (Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel) – 4:07
  5. "Spirit in the Sky" (Norman Greenbaum) – 3:56
  6. "Will You Give Me One? (film dialogue) – 1:12
  7. "Sunshine at Last" (Koot) – 4:31
  8. "Grace in Notting Hill" (Mark Russell) – 2:57
  9. "Human (Tin Tin Out Mix)" (The Pretenders) – 3:52
  10. "Drugden" (Mark Russell) – 2:46
  11. "Might as Well Go Home" (Plenty) – 3:17
  12. "Would You Like Some Cornflakes? (film dialogue) – 0:22
  13. "Wise Up (Car Port Mix)" (AFT) – 3:12
  14. "New B323" (film dialogue) – 0:41
  15. "Cornwall Chase" (Mark Russell) – 3:01
  16. "Accidental Angel" (Sherena Dugani) – 3:57
  17. "Witchcraft" (Robert Palmer) – 3:17
  18. "All Things Bright and Beautiful (Mark Russell) – 2:51
fonte: wikipedia

the two owners of the little market in the village... under maria effects ihihihihih

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