There were significantly fewer terrible adverse excursions in November 2025 (5) compared with October 2025 (23). As long as you didn’t monkey with the system, November was an extremely profitable month for shorting dings given the tiny number of max losses offset by hundreds of winning trades.
November 5: MTC (China)
November 11: LFS (Japan)
November 12: LPTX (ticker symbol later changed to CYPH) (USA)
November 18: OLMA (USA)
November 19: WSHP (UK)
I’ve added the nine movies Kathryn Bigleow picked in her Criterion Closet appearance. She dressed up as Diane Keaton for her appearance. Also I really don’t like any of the movies she’s made, but that’s just my personal opinion.
Army of Shadows
Detour
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Notorious
Straw Dogs
The Battle of Algiers
The Confession
The Lodger
Z
Kathryn Bigelow made three original picks: Hiroshima Mon Amour, The Confession, and The Lodger. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
In French. 109 minute running time. This movie inexplicably won the Oscar in 1978 for best foreign film. It’s true that Carole Laure’s tits deserve an Oscar, but I’m not sure about the movie.
I like Bertrand Blier’s work, and really enjoyed his 1974 movie, Going Places. He makes weird movies for sure, but fun, lots of silly business. Gerard Depardieu’s nose was still fairly normal in 1977, and Patrick Dewaere’s chest hair is marvelous … I don’t know what I can say for Solange’s 13-year-old lover.
This was a John Farr reco and gets a yellow rating from me.
Not a kidnapping
In Swedish. 92 minute running time. Ingmar Bergman again, another stage play put on film, two people talking once again, this time a mother (Ingrid Bergman) and a daughter (Liv Ullman).
Now that I’m in my fifties I can watch and enjoy Bergman movies… I don’t think I would have liked this when I was in my twenties. Two people talking for 90 minutes, painful memories and words, some real viciousness (just like in Scenes from a Marriage). Bergman may be like: you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ‘em all, but I do enjoy them.
Jane Schoenbrun, a transvestite(??), is the only visitor to the Criterion closet who picked out this movie.
Mommie Dearest x 1000
81 minute running time. This was like a homemade movie, and there’s no real story here, it’s sort of a hodgepodge of ideas, but I did watch all of it and was glad I did because I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s a black culture movie, sort of… it stars a beautiful dark-skinned black girl, who has a lot of spunk, and also a light-skinned black girl, who likes to dress up as a boy.
I’ve been working my way through the list of Criterion Closet Picks that have only been chosen once. Zeinabu Irene Davis was the sole person to recommend this movie, and I’m glad she did. It gets a yellow (consider it) rating from me (not green-go, not red-stop).
S’up little sistah
I’ve added the seven movies Wagner Moura picked in his Criterion Closet appearance.
Black God, White Devil
Il posto
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2
Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 3
Memories of Underdevelopment
Rosetta
The Kid with a Bike
Wagner Moura had one original pick: Black God, White Devil. This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
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I’ve added the five movies Kahlil Joseph picked in his Criterion Closet appearance.
Days of Heaven
Tampopo
The Color of Pomegranates
Tokyo Olympiad
Yi Yi
Kahlil Joseph had no original picks, but he is only the second person to pick Tokyo Olympiad (Roger Deakins was the first). This is why my Master List of Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet is so valuable.
In Japanese. 91 minute running time. This was hilarious and wonderfully weird. Seijun Suzuki was making fun of the typical yakuza movie and movie conventions in general. I enjoyed it, but it doesn’t get the vaunted green-go, must-see recommendation.
I discovered this movie by reviewing the LEAST picked movies among the Closet Picks in the Criterion Closet. Only Yorgos Lanthimos, who makes wonderfully weird movies himself, recommended it.
Who is No. 1?
In Swedish. There are different cuts of this movie, and I watched the three hour version. I generally have a strict 100 minute rule with movies, but this one was special and gets a pass. I loved this movie, but didn’t watch it in one go … I watched an hour a night for three nights, more or less.
It’s a stage play, not really a movie, just two people talking (mainly). It’s funny, it’s sad, it’s insightful, it’s maddening. Maybe it’s only enjoyable for people who have been married twenty years? Anyway, it’s a green-go recommended movie. Of course John Farr recommended it too (“long and demanding, but richly rewarding”) and said it is “peak Bergman.”
Four visitors to the Criterion Closet picked it out; you can see who they are here.
Liv Ullman was both beautiful and a great actress.
“Yes, she has lovely breasts.”
