Tag: film

February Horoscopes

by Christina • January 31, 2015

The day of the year set aside for lovers by the makers of greeting cards falls, in the northern hemisphere, during the grimmest month. Where is the erotic promise in February’s pale days and cold rain? But not this year. This year, February looks fabulous. It looks sexy, fecund, inspiring. A sweetscented posy of snowdrops, a young lamb curled in the hay, a golden candle at an iris-blue window, a tender caress under a warm blanket. This month promises romance, music, love. Neptune,the planet of ideal love, Venus, planet of real love, Mars the plan of action, are all in Pisces, […]

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Dr Zhivago: Venus In The Midst Of Mars

by Christina • January 26, 2015

Like flowers the ice crystals on the window sparkle in the winter sun, transform into a sunny field of daffodils. Spring. Early-morning, low sun between rows of straight, rough-barked pines flashes as the camera moves. Treeless, snowy, dead flat land with a horizon straight as a ruler. A single tiny black dot is the only thing that moves: a troika carrying away love. Lingering images like these tell us that Yuri Zhivago is a poet, and that David Lean is a great film director. I watched Doctor Zhivago this weekend for the first time in decades. We cried and cried. It is […]

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Neptune At The Movies

by Christina • December 26, 2014

It’s Boxing Day, a perfect day for slothing on the sofa and succumbing to the magic world of the movies. I’ve noted before that I think this period of Neptune in Pisces (2011-2024) should be great for the moving image. One thing that’s already clear is that we’re going through a wonderful period for TV drama. Now that we watch episodes back to back, we’re diving right into that ocean of imagination in just the way our ancestors immersed themselves in those huge novels back in the 1850s, last time Neptune was in Pisces. In this country at any rate, something else […]

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Scorpio Fashionistas: Edith Head

by Christina • October 28, 2014

Edith Head’s work is chic, cool, glamourous and powerful. You name a legendary Hollywood beauty (especially post-war) — Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Ingrid Bergman — and you’ll find that Edith Head designed clothes for her. Some of the most iconic Hollywood looks — Kim Novak in Vertigo, Grace Kelly in Rear Window, Mae West in She Done Him Wrong — are Edith Head’s work. It wasn’t just that she understood colour and black and white, film and form, she managed to make women look simultaneously classy and sizzlingly sexy. To have such impact in a world dominated by men, Head had […]

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Anthony Hopkins: Darkness Visible

by Christina • September 19, 2014

Anthony Hopkins’ trademark is intense stillness broken by an electrifying stream of words, or a sudden violent movement, or a flash of those unsettling pale eyes. He was born in the dark of winter. His powerful, stony Capricorn Sun is buried in the 12th house – the place of collective dreaming and collective nightmare, the prison and the place of letting go. The 12th house Sun must wrestle with angels and demons. I was fascinated by this quote when it came up on my Facebook feed. You can hear the rapid Welsh rhythm in the language he uses. The […]

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Lights, Camera, Roar

by jo • August 13, 2014

It’s silly to guess a profession by Sun sign. But this is the silly season – and there are an […]

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Lights, Camera, Roar

by jo • August 13, 2014

It’s silly to guess a profession by Sun sign. But this is the silly season – and there are an awful lot of film directors born under the sign of the Lion. Creative, passionate, theatrical, charismatic – and with a big vision — it figures. So this week’s birthdays include Alfred Hitchcock, Roman Polanski, Cecil B DeMille, Ben Affleck, Wim Wenders and two great actors turned directors Robert Redford and Gene Kelly. Sun in Leo Gus Van Sant Nanni Morretti Peter Bogdanovich Gabriele Salvatore John Huston Wes Craven (Venus-Pluto conjunction in Leo) Moon in Leo Peter Jackson Forrest Whitaker Clint Eastwood Ken […]

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Movies: Gravity

by Christina • December 17, 2013

Gravity opens with the longest, loveliest view of our pearlescent planet, so large and luminous — and behind it black space. The Earth is our home, our heart, our mother — but what happens when we cut the cord that ties us to her?(Spoiler alert. Pret…

Edith Head Horoscope: Stars of a Costume Designer

by HauteHoroscope • October 28, 2013

Today Google honored the late costume designer Edith Head with her very own Doodle. Although a reliable time of birth is not available, Edith Head has a horoscope that speaks loud enough through the aspects of the planets and luminaries. Of particular not are Jupiter, Saturn, and the north node, each at 0 degrees of […]

Homage to the Creator of The Hobbit et al

by Christina • December 19, 2012

Bilbo Baggins first wriggled his furry little toes just down the road from here. So I often think of that notoriously shy scholar John Ronald Reuel Tolkien and his vast imagination after I’ve dropped my children off at school, when…

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