fan of all things KCMO, likes history,classical music,reading/writing, @stuartgrist@mastodon.social #satmat
Kansas City, MO
Joined September 2012
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Master and Commander won Best Sound by recording real antique cannons fired with different types of ammunition. The boom is what 18th-century sailors actually heard. It also nails the physics.
Historians consider it one of the most authentically sounding naval films ever made.
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20 years ago in 2006, CASINO ROYALE had its world premiere at Odeon Leicester Square in London.
This was Daniel Craig’s first film as James Bond.
Its musical moments like these that that show love for symphonies. The Bruckner sym 8th is amazing!
❤🍀🌹Brass at full power in Bruckner 8!
Amazing Brass ensemble! But the thing that inspires me the most is seeing my good friend Carlos Ferreira playing 1st clarinete in this amazing orchestra!
Greetings from Portugal!
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Made me a fan of Carl Nielsens amazing symphonies!
In tiefer Trauer nehmen wir Abschied von Herbert Blomstedt. Unser ehemaliger Gewandhauskapellmeister & Ehrendirigent ist heute, am 04.11.2026, im Alter von 99 Jahren in Göteborg verstorben. Wir verneigen uns in tiefer Dankbarkeit vor seinem Lebenswerk. Sie werden uns fehlen.
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Oh this is very sad! One of memorable voices from my childhood!
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Stuart Grist retweeted
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃
IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL DAY OF THE YEAR! 🦇
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY EVERYONE!! 🧡
#halloween #happyhalloween
Stuart Grist retweeted
A look at the remastered version of The Curse of Frankenstein (Hammer films 1957)
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“Congratulations Palmer. You’ve just killed an American agent.”
THE IPCRESS FILE (1965)
So 60’s, so London, so Cold War.
#MichaelCaine
Totally agree! It's a powerful scene!
In Ben-Hur, there is a moment of extraordinary simplicity and grace. Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), exhausted and broken in the desert, is silently offered water by Jesus. We never see Christ’s face; only his figure and presence are revealed.
Not a word is spoken, yet Judah’s expression moves almost imperceptibly from despair to hope. William Wyler’s masterful cinematography gives the encounter an unmistakable sense of the sacred, suggesting that something far greater than an act of human kindness has taken place.
It is a brief gesture, a cup of water offered to a suffering man, yet it becomes the seed of Judah’s long journey towards mercy, reconciliation and forgiveness. In its restraint, silence and humanity, it remains one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema.
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