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Our City Tonight
By Jim Gordon and Leeta Liepins
Published 2:09 PST, Fri March 1, 2024
Spotlight on Superb Home Viewing & A Winter Cocktail
The Home View #1 – The New Look
Inspired by true events, this 10-episode, historical drama takes place in German-occupied France during WWII and also post war as the city of Paris rises to become the fashion capital of the world. The main focus is fashion icon, Christian Dior, who created a ground-breaking line of clothing, that critics called the “new look”. Dior was also busy competing (and fighting with) fellow icon, Coco Chanel. The cast is superb including Emmy Award winner Ben Mendelsohn as Christian Dior, Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche as Coco Chanel, Maisie Williams (Game of Thrones) as Catherine Dior, and Academy Award/Emmy Award Nominee John Malkovich as Lucien Lelong. The New Look is available now for viewing on Apple TV.
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The Home View #2 – One Life
The setting is a British TV studio in the late 1980’s and Sir Nicholas Winton is in the audience, unknowingly surrounded by people who are there because of his courageous act 50 years earlier. One Life is the true story of how a young Winton—then a successful 29-year-old London stockbroker—in 1938-39, helped a large group of Jewish children escape German-occupied Czechoslovakia as the Nazis were on the march to conquer all of Europe and implement their Final Solution of the Jewish race. Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn play the old and young versions of Winton, and the strong supporting cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Jonathan Price and Lena Olin. Truly a touching, powerful example of how one life can touch so many others. One Life is in theatres March 15.
The Winter Sip – Plum Devil
We continue our spotlight on delicious cocktails for the winter season, this time with our partners at Axis Planning Inc., who have been on Our City Tonight a number of times, showcasing a variety of cocktails from the Jap anese brand known as CHOYA. Like all our suggestions, we first sampled the cocktail of choice at a restaurant, in this case, Ancora Waterfront Dining and Patio in the West Vancouver area of Ambleside (they also have a location in False Creek). The team at Ancora, whose menu embraces the harmony of Peruvian and Japanese cultures while incorporating the bounty of the West Coast, was keen to have us try the Plum Devil, one of several cocktails they’ve created with the Choya brand. Ingredients include 1.5oz CHOYA 23, 0.75oz Suntory Toki Whisky 0.5oz Amaro Nonino, and Drop Plum and Root Beer Bitters.
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