[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/SusannTennyson.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating Woman In Gold Two Susanns/Half Tenneyson[/av_image] If you’ve been to Vienna, you almost certainly have visited the Belvedere Schloss, the great Hapsburg estate now used mainly as an art museum—and you have therefore had a chance to view the Gustav Klimt masterpiece,… Continue reading Movie Review: Woman in Gold by Simon Curtis
Author: Jay Ruud
Jay Ruud – Poetry With Dogs: A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young”
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Jay Ruud – Poetry With Dogs: Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s “Casey at the Bat”
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The Top Ten Baseball Movies EVAH!
There have been dozens of movies about baseball, from the pure comedy of Walter Mathau’s iconic turn in The Bad News Bears, to the singing and dancing double play combination of Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly in Take Me Out to the Ballgame, to Tommy Lee Jones’ brilliant portrayal of a sociopathic star in Cobb.… Continue reading The Top Ten Baseball Movies EVAH!
Jay Ruud – Poetry With Dogs: John Donne’s “Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward”
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Movie Review: Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Shakespeare-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’76’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Leviathan 4 SHAKESPEARES [/av_image] In the Bible, Leviathan is the name of the chaos monster defeated by Yahweh in pre-Biblical Hebrew mythology. He appears in isolated places in some of the Psalms that probably predate the composition of Genesis, and is… Continue reading Movie Review: Leviathan Andrey Zvyagintsev
Jay Ruud – Poetry With Dogs: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
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Movie Review: Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3-12.jpg’ attachment=313′ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] Ruud Rating TIMBUKTU Three Tennysons/Half Shakespeare[/av_image] Though it was little noted in the United States, on April 3, the BBC reported that an Islamist jihadist rebel group in Mali called Ansar Dine (“Defenders of the Faith”) had taken over the ancient city of… Continue reading Movie Review: Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako
Jay Ruud – Poetry With Dogs: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton
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Movie Review: Cinderella by Kenneth Branagh
[av_image src=’http://jayruud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tennyson-180×180.jpg’ attachment=’77’ attachment_size=’square’ align=’left’ animation=’left-to-right’ link=” target=” styling=” caption=’yes’ font_size=” appearance=’on-hover’] RUUD RATING Cinderella 3 TENNYSONS [/av_image] In Kenneth Branagh’s new retelling of the classic fairy tale, when her fairy godmother (Helena Bonham Carter) prepares to put her in a stylish new dress, Cinderella (Downton Abbey’s Lily James) stops her, insisting that she wear… Continue reading Movie Review: Cinderella by Kenneth Branagh