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In Montreal, writing about movies, music, wine and other good things in life. More at www.jeffheinrich.com. Previously at https://qoto.org/@montrealjeff.

Program illustration for the free concert given in the Off Bach series of Montreal's annual International Bach Festival on Dec. 2, 2025 by locally based musicians Quinn Robinson (viola), Thomas Beard (cello) and Russell Iceberg (violin), shown here with their instruments. They played the 1985 Sitkovetsky arrangement for string trio of Bach's 1741 'Goldberg Variations'.
Abdul-Wahab Kayyali in white shirt and jeans posing with his oud outdoors against a background of pale stone buildings in a hilltop town.
A screengrab from the 2024 Italian film Vermiglio, showing a young couple kissing at the entrance to a stone hut in the snowy Italian Alps.
His face made up in white greasepaint, smoky-eyed and red-lipped, a Nazi-era stage actor (played by Klaus Maria Bandauer) examines himself in the mirror in a scene from István Szabó's 1981 film Mephisto.
Front cover of Dire Straits self-titled first album, released June 9, 1978. Inside a wide yellow border, a painting in earth tones depicts a woman in shadow on a wide balcony, leaning against a pillar.
Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel look at a blonde in Mike Nichols' 1971 film Carnal Knowledge.
French-German documentary film director Marcel Ophuls (The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus) drawn in 1988 by Canadian syndicated caricaturist Kerry Waghorn.
Orange-and-black label of Springbank 10 whisky.
A home library shelf of books, DVDs, Blu-rays and a lone 7" single (from 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' soundtrack) featuring the late British actor Alec Guinness.
Mel Bonis at age 19, painting by Charles-Auguste Corbineau (1877).
Luka Coetzee, 20, a Canadian cellist now based in Germany, will play the Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. The sold-out show is part of the annual Montreal Bach Festival, which has been running since 2005.
Sandy Ratcliff as Janice, in Ken Loach's 'Family Life' (1971).