Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for June 2026

Here is the One a Day playlist for June 2026. Check out the One a Day playlists for May, April, March, February and January.

I “discovered” Olivia Dean on YouTube a decade? ago and said this girl is gonna be a star. I have a HUGE crush on Mari Froes, who is super beautiful and has an amazing voice. Dent May is my kind of smartass. Then we have classic GenX stuff (Sade, David Bowie, The Cure). Then we have GenX baby-in-the-womb stuff: Ellen McIlwaine, Stevie Wonder, Janis Joplin, Roberta Flack, Allman Bros. And that old Cole Porter song takes me back to many a night spent in the Cafe Carlyle. R.I.P. Bobby!

The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:

1. spill tab, Suckerrr

2. Olivia Dean, A Couple Minutes

3. Andrea Laszlo De Simone, Per te

4. Mari Froes, Figa De Guine

5. Avenue A,  Run Cold

6. Sababa 5, Bezani

7. Peter Cat Recording Co., Seed

8. Shay Hazan, Nitai Hershkovits, Sunflowers

9. Bloom Bat, Odd Friends

10. Albin de la Simone, Les cent prochaines annees

11. Joe Yorke, Dreaming

12. Wolfgang Valbrun, Keep Your Head Up

13. Tank and The Bangas, The Ton3s, Communion in my Cup

14. Benjamin Schoos, Dent May, All Night Every Night

15. CAKE, Mahna, Mahna

16. Portishead, Only You

17. Edwyn Collins, A Girl Like You

18. Gipsy Kings, Hotel California

19. The Cure, Close To Me

20. Sade, The Sweetest Taboo

21. David Bowie, Ashes To Ashes

22. Hugh Mundell, Run Revolution A Come

23. Ellen McIlwaine, Can't Find My Way Home

24. Stevie Wonder, You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

25. The Doobie Brothers, Listen to the Music

26. Bobby Short, Katie Went To Haiti

27. Janis Joplin, Cry Baby

28. Roberta Flack, Do What You Gotta Do

29. Allman Brothers Band, In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

30. Mahalia Jackson, A Satisfied Mind
    

Nick Davis's 100 Favorite Films

Again I am re-formatting this list so that it’s readable … looks like 109 titles in total:

1930 Min and Bill

1932 Blonde Venus

1935 Alice Adams

1947 Possessed

1949 Adam's Rib

1951 A Streetcar Named Desire

1954 Executive Suite

1959 Pickpocket

1959 Suddenly, Last Summer

1962 Walk on the Wild Side

1963 Hud

1966 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

1967 Cool Hand Luke

1968 Night of the Living Dead

1968 The Lion in Winter

1972 Solaris

1973 The Way We Were

1974 Claudine

1975 Chronicle of the Smoldering Years

1975 Dog Day Afternoon

1977 3 Women

1977 Eraserhead

1977 Opening Night

1978 Les Rendez-vous d'Anna

1979 The Brood

1979 The China Syndrome

1981 Pennies from Heaven

1982 Frances

1982 Illusions

1982 Peel: An Exercise in Discipline

1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman

1985 Mask

1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo

1986 Sherman's March

1986 The Fly

1987 Fatal Attraction

1987 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

1987 Where Is the Friend's Home?

1988 Another Woman

1990 Postcards from the Edge

1990 Without You I'm Nothing

1991 Boyz N the Hood

1991 Cape Fear

1991 Frankie & Johnny

1991 JFK

1991 Naked Lunch

1992 Bram Stoker's Dracula

1992 Dream of Light (aka The Quince Tree Sun)

1992 Howards End

1992 Husbands and Wives

1992 Hyenas

1992 Orlando

1992 The Crying Game

1992 These Hands

1993 Dottie Gets Spanked

1993 The Baby of Mâcon

1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

1994 Bullets over Broadway

1994 Cemetery Man

1994 Vanya on 42nd Street

1995 Babe

1995 Georgia

1995 Home for the Holidays

1995 Nixon

1995 Strange Days

1995 The Bridges of Madison County

1996 Crash

1996 Female Perversions

1996 Irma Vep

1996 The English Patient

1996 The Pillow Book

1996 The Portrait of a Lady

1996 Walking and Talking

1997 Jackie Brown

1997 Titanic

1998 Hands on a Hardbody

1998 High Art

1998 Psycho

1998 Velvet Goldmine

1999 Beau travail

1999 Boys Don't Cry

1999 Eyes Wide Shut

1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

1999 Magnolia

1999 Pola X

1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley

2000 Best in Show

2000 Blackboards

2000 Bring It On

2000 Erin Brockovich

2000 I'm the One that I Want

2000 The Cell

2000 You Can Count on Me

2001 Late Marriage

2001 Ocean's Eleven

2001 The Piano Teacher

2002 Eleven Minutes, Nine Seconds, One Image: September 11

2002 demonlover

2002 Solaris

2002 The Cremaster Cycle

2002 The Hours

2003 Monster

2003 The Corporation

2004 Birth

2004 I ♥ Huckabees

2005 Dave Chappelle's Block Party

2005 Grizzly Man

2005 Junebug

2005 The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Nick Davis's Top 100 Movies

I discovered this gentleman’s top movies list today, but found it so unreadable that I will re-format it here … the numbers reflect his ranking:

1 Persona

2 The Earrings of Madame de...

3 The Piano

4 Diary of a Country Priest

5 Citizen Kane

6 The Ballad of Narayama

7 Modern Times

8 Harlan County, U.S.A.

9 Sanshô the Bailiff

10 Andrei Rublev

11 Nashville

12 Singin' in the Rain

13 Vertigo

14 The Passion of Joan of Arc

15 Pinocchio

16 ??? [missing from list]

17 Meshes of the Afternoon

18 His Girl Friday

19 The Battle of Algiers

20 The Green Ray

21 The Thin Red Line

22 Aguirre, the Wrath of God

23 Taste of Cherry

24 Laura

25 Chinatown

26 Bicycle Thieves

27 A Woman Under the Influence

28 Apocalypse Now

29 Taxi Driver

30 Safe

31 The Lady Eve

32 Man with a Movie Camera

33 Holiday

34 Casablanca

35 Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

36 The Fall of the House of Usher

37 Nanook of the North

38 McCabe & Mrs. Miller

39 Hannah and Her Sisters

40 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

41 Imitation of Life

42 Woman in the Dunes

43 The Conversation

44 Cries and Whispers

45 Shoah

46 The Travelling Players

47 Days of Heaven

48 Morvern Callar

49 Pickup on South Street

50 The Battleship Potemkin

51 Metropolis

52 The Scarlet Empress

53 The Gospel According to St. Matthew

54 Aliens

55 Pather Panchali

56 Tokyo Story

57 The Seventh Seal

58 Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

59 Dead Ringers

60 Raging Bull

61 42nd Street

62 Psycho

63 All About Eve

64 Russian Ark

65 The 400 Blows

66 Xala

67 The Joyless Street

68 The Docks of New York

69 The Last of England

70 Letter from an Unknown Woman

71 The Wages of Fear

72 The Letter

73 New York, New York

74 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

75 Fanny and Alexander

76 L'Atalante

77 Dancer in the Dark

78 Smiles of a Summer Night

79 Black Rain

80 Viridiana

81 Shame

82 The Godfather

83 Under the Sun of Satan

84 Notorious

85 Mulholland Drive

86 The Third Man

87 Long Day's Journey into Night

88 Sunset Boulevard

89 Annie Hall

90 2001: A Space Odyssey

91 Velvet Goldmine

92 Riddles of the Sphinx

93 Close-Up

94 When Harry Met Sally...

95 Flesh

96 Nostalghia

97 Marat/Sade

98 Talk to Her

99 Daughters of the Dust

100 Mary Poppins

Movies Watched -- High Art (1998)

102 minute running time including credits so the right length… I had never heard of this movie before watching nepo baby Hannah Einbinder’s visit to the Criterion Closet. I am the keeper of the Master List of Every Criterion Closet Pick Ever Made and noticed that nepo baby Hannah was the only guest ever to pick High Art, which intrigued me. My local library had a copy so I borrowed it and watched it last night.

To my surprise, I really liked this movie. I didn’t love it, but I liked it enough to give it 3.5 stars. 4 stars is a recommended movie, but there are only a few hundred of those in existence. 3.5 is pretty good, considering.

Anyway, it’s mainly a lesbian love story. There’s this cute, fat-faced Australian girl (a blue-eyed beauty named Radha (hippie parents?) born in 1973) who falls in love with her older upstairs neighbor, played by Ally Sheedy of all people! You’ll remember Ally Sheedy (born in 1962) from The Breakfast Club, but in this she plays a scrawny bra-less lesbian in a tank top (wife beater). In fact all the women in this movie are scrawny bra-less dykes wearing tank tops, which made me laugh. Cute fat-face thankfully never shows up in a tank top.

They make the Ally Sheedy character Jewish, which also interested me. Ally Sheedy herself had a Jewish mom (Catholic dad), which explains her great hair. Ally’s rich mother (in the movie lol) bankrolls her existence (and heroin habit). Ally also borrows mom’s old Mercedes (Nazi car) for trips to their upstate house from Manhattan. Does she drive as far as Otsego county? Sexy air up there.

Ally is a great photographer, one-time famous kinda. Ally has a German girlfriend named Greta who is brilliantly played by Patricia Clarkson. She made me fall down laughing with her ridiculous heroin-slurred German accent. “Ze teenager!” Radha works as an “assistant editor” at some fashion/photography magazine, a job that mainly involves bringing tea and scones to some asshole with a ponytail who looks a little like Jeff Goldblum. Radha has the bright idea of advancing her career by featuring Ally’s great photographs. She’s ambitious.

Bunch of beautiful people of assorted colors and ethnicities (though no heart-of-Africa blacks) lounging around Ally’s dingy loft snorting heroin. Bad idea, kids. “Pervasive drug use” was on the R rating, which made me laugh.

So the vibe of this movie was really great. It captured New York City East Village loft life in the late 1990s in a realistic way. There’s something about the mood that is very appealing. The script is good, the acting is good, but the ending is no good. If it had a good ending, this could have been a four star movie. I’ve never seen Radha in any other movie, which is suprising since she’s clearly another talented actress from Oz, like Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts.

Here’s a good post about the movie by by B. Ruby Rich, who appears to be a non-scrawny dyke.

This guy also wrote a good review, which included this funny line: “Impressively, however, it's Sheedy—and who ever thought this sentence was possible?—who holds the picture together.”

A brief interview with Cholodenko from 1998, back when there were, gasp, newspapers.

Radha good at crying on demand

MSTR Quietly Hides Average Cost of Pet Rock Holdings

This is GIGO’s report on it:

The dashboard layout on strategy.com and [strategy.com/btc](https://strategy.com/btc) underwent a subtle shift, and the average purchase price is no longer featured as a primary highlight card on the main pages.

The metric was highly prominent during the bull run when MicroStrategy’s average cost basis was well below the spot price. However, with Bitcoin pulling back below $60,000, MicroStrategy's overall average purchase price of $75,651 per BTC places their massive 847,363 BTC hoard into an aggregate unrealized loss exceeding $10 billion.

Where did it go?

While it has been removed from the main summary metrics on the home page and /btc page, the data is not entirely gone from the site:

• The "Purchases" Tab: If you navigate to [strategy.com/purchases](https://strategy.com/purchases), they still maintain a comprehensive ledger of every corporate purchase batch. The top total row of that table still explicitly shows the aggregate Avg BTC Price ($75,651) and total acquisition price.

• SEC Filings: It remains a mandatory disclosure in their official financial reporting (such as their 8-K and 10-Q filings), where they list their digital asset cost basis.

The structural redesign of the main landing pages has refocused attention away from the aggregate cost basis and toward newer corporate indicators, such as "BTC Yield" and "Bitcoin Per Share (in Sats)".

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Ferrari 308 GTS

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Fiat X1/9

Honda Civic Del Sol

Lotus Elise

Mazda MX-5 Miata

Porsche 914

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Toyota MR2

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Coordinated Attack on Short Sellers of Chinese Stocks

The following stocks all had outlier moves today:

BVC (China)

BYAH (China) — 511% Change from the close

CHOW (HK)

CLIK (HK)

GRAN (HK)

HAO (China)

HKIT (China)

IFBD (HK)

INHD (HK) — 3,893% Change from the close, 17:18:58.540 T12 Halt (just in the nick of time)

ITOC (China)

LXEH (China)

MTEN (China)

NPT (China) — 835% Change from the close

PN (China)

RYET (China)

TDIC (HK)

I suffered the worst day tarding losses of the year today and will take the summer off.

Watching Debt Transform Into the Bitcoin Dream

This is apparently AI-generated, but it made me fall off my chair laughing. Pet Rock going to zero of course.

Let me recap the earning call.

Yeah.

They said, "Mike, don't touch the Bitcoin stack." Now I'm buying more while they fighting into black. STRC printing, engine running clean, watching debt transform into the Bitcoin dream.

Turned on the BTC drive. No shame in my face. 65 billion and I'm still winning the race. They panic when I say sell a little coin just to prove the whole market doesn't break or get destroyed.

Company fine, Bitcoin fine. World still spins. You scream Ponzi while the weak cave in. Bitcoin getting stronger. Every cycle reborn while I keep building through the middle of the storm.

I'd like nothing better than to rip your wings off.

Every short position getting weaker when we lift off.

I'd like nothing better than to rip your wings off.

We used the equity ATM. Yeah. Yeah. We said it with pride. Then the STRC machine came alive on the side. More tools, more options, more fuel for the fire. While the shorts pray every quarter that the stock expires. I buy Bitcoin like development land. Buy it low, build it up, then expand what we can. Flip the profit back again into more BTC. That's the difference between conviction and jealousy.

I like nothing better than to rip your wings off. Watching every short seller realize there's no second best.

I like nothing better than to rip your wings off. There is no second best.

Maoxian's One a Day Playlist for May 2026

Here is the One a Day playlist for May 2026. Check out the One a Day playlists for April, March, February and January.

Mario Bros. and Eric B. & Rakim take me back to high school, and Tanita Tikaram and Jane’s Addiction take me back to college. You dat oldz, brah?

The songs are ordered chronologically from latest to earliest:

1. SAULT, God, Protect Me from My Enemies

2. Dominique Fils-Aime, Going Home

3. Kendra Morris, Dear Buddy

4. Mari Froes, Fogueira

5. Laura Anglade, A New Day, a New Life, a New Love

6. Isolde Lasoen, Oh Dear

7. Teddy Swims, Lose Control

8. Espen Horne, Selim Mutic, Bergen Sunrays

9. Skrillex, Missy Ellott, Mr. Oizo, RATATA

10. Baron Retif & Concepcion Perez, Italien chausettes lin

11. Courtney Marie Andrews, If I Told

12. Rema, Dumebi

13. Hannah Murray, Down and Dusky Blonde

14. Amy Winehouse, Wake Up Alone

15. Paolo Nutini, Last Request

16. Arctic Monkeys, Mardy Bum

17. The Roots, You Got Me

18. Thievery Corporation, Lebanese Blonde

19. Alain Marlin, Taksi marron

20. Tanita Tikaram, Twist in My Sobriety

21. Jane's Addiction, Standing in the Shower …  Thinking

22. Eric B. & Rakim, Paid In Full

23. Koji Kondo, Super Mario Bros. Main Theme

24. Dennis Bovell, Frea Stoil

25. Gerry Rafferty, Right Down the Line

26. Alessi Brothers, Seabird

27. Bob Marley & the Wailers, Who the Cap Fit

28. Labi Siffre, Cannock Chase

29. Robert Flack, Donny Hathaway, Where Is the Love

30. Jimi Hendrix, Fire

31. Gillian Hills, Zou bisou bisou

Movies Watched in June 2026

I’m getting bad about recording the movies I’ve been watching, so I’ll do a single post and just add to it throughout June…

La promesse (1996) … Dardenne brothers, depressing AF, quit at midpoint.

Good Morning (1959) … Ozu, post-war Japan comedy? … paused at 30 min mark.

Nashville (1975) … Robert Altman … 160 minutes long, which would normally outrage me, but I was so intrigued and amused by this wackiness that I give this my highest rating, four stars, everyone should see this movie.

Il posto (1961) … may be a perfect movie, a masterpiece… I don’t use these terms lightly … beautiful, funny, deeply sad … I loved it. Four stars. And of course a running time under 100 minutes.

Zabriskie Point (1970) … Antonioni, I don’t think I’ve liked a single movie he ever made … saw this 30 years ago probably and forgot how bad it is … dirty hippie cop killer free love writhing anti-capitalist bodies in the 1970 Death Valley desert … it’s true that Daria Halprin was a blue-eyed Jewish beauty and that was a fantastic short green dress with Injun bead belt she wore .. this is a 2 or 2.5 stars, don’t see it, despite wonderful Wonder bread explosion at the end.

Ugetsu (1953) … Mizoguchi … morality tale and ghost story … I found it a little heavy-handed, but it is stylish, esp. the ghost story … a good line from the Criterion blurb: “Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, UGETSU reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.” Ambition, greed, responsibility, family, the neighbor, the clan. 3 stars.

The Beguiled (1970) … Don Siegel directing Clint Eastwood, pre-Dirty Harry … Clint as wounded Union soldier taken in by school marm and her bevy of beauties, many of whom he seduces, including the 13-year-old and the beautiful negro slave! Nursed back to health with the aid of a hacksaw and served a final meal of specially picked mushrooms. Score by the almost always awful Lalo Schifrin. It isn’t terrible, but I can’t recommend it. 3 stars.

La haine (1995) … some kind of re-enactment of a police brutality case in Paris maybe? Immigrant life in the “projects.” I made it 10 minutes in and couldn’t take it. Not in the mood. I did enjoy “Dheepan,” which is also about this world.

Drunken Angel (1948) … Kurosawa … odd combo of public health warning (tuberculosis) in post-war Japan and a gangster movie … it’s not bad … there are genius moments, Kurosawa was super talented. The Yakuza “code” and other foolishness derided. 3 stars. An essay on the movie by Ian Buruma, whose writing I always liked.

The Music Room (1958) …. Ray … always interested in capturing a vanishing India … the crumbling, dissipated aristocracy being surpassed by striving sons of moneylenders … tragedy, pride, foolishness, omens, reading the signs … it wasn’t terrible and had some pretty wonderful music scenes … 3 stars.

The River (1951) … Jean Renoir … Technicolor movie in India, jute, ugly Brits, wasn’t interested, quit at 30 minute mark.

The Ballad of Narayama (1958) … apparently tells the story of a charming Japanese tradition of abandoning a person on a mountaintop when he or she turns 70 … I made it 10 minutes in and quit.

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) … Directed by Víctor Erice … set in rural Spain in the early 1940s, after the civil war and Franco’s rise to power, so it’s full of mysteries and symbolism I didn’t understand, but if you were a thoughtful Spaniard in 1973 you would have understood what he was trying to say … fantasy, imagination, make-believe, the power of movies, killer mushrooms … and Dad keeps a display beehive INSIDE the house. Think about what that can symbolize! Basically it’s about a little girl’s loss of innocence and the reality of monsters (like fascist Franco, er, Frankenstein, get it?) and death. It’s a movie you’d have to read a lot of analysis and spend a lot of time thinking about to truly get. John Farr writes: “Long considered a masterpiece of world cinema … ‘Beehive’ epitomizes the magic of cinema itself.” It’s too inscrutable to be a masterpiece on first viewing, unlike a true masterpiece. 3 stars. (Many mysteries revealed in this essay.)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) … too long at 110 minutes … comedy / action / Western … two gorgeous hunks and Katharine Ross … some funny bits and some good action, but ultimately unsatisfying and 10 to 20 minutes too long.

Lord of the Flies (1963) … good adaptation of Golding’s book … the right running time at 90 minutes. "Kill the pig! Slit her throat! Bash her in!” Mob mentality.

Under the Roofs of Paris (1930) … Rene Clair talkie … very French, very Clair, very 1930 … I watched an hour of it, but didn’t finish it. Clair made one great movie, À nous la liberté, which everyone should see.

Highway Patrolman (1991) … Alex Cox likes making weird movies … they are funny, but you have to be in the mood for them. I wasn’t in the mood.

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) … Peckinpah … never seen a Peckinpah movie that I liked. He was a little guy with a big thing for violence and liked his women bare-breasted. James Coburn always good as a bad guy, but this was way too long and dumb … hated seeing a mangy little Jewish guy (Bob Zimmerman!) in a gang in the Old West. Terrible. 2 stars. Don’t see it and NOT a John Farr reco.

Everlasting Moments (2008) … I actually had to buy a copy of this movie since I couldn’t find it anywhere, but I regret it, John Farr led me astray here … this was no good. It was way way way too long at 131 minutes and the story was lame and sort of pointless .. turn of the century Sweden, a woman is married to a violent guy, I don’t think he’s an alcoholic but he beats her … she meets a photographer when she’s trying to sell the family camera and they sort of fall in love but not really … story telling is so restrained that it becomes lame … this is 2.5 stars.

One False Move (1992) … Argh, again I buy a movie because John Farr recommended it but I can’t find a copy anywhere … this was terrible … Billy Bob Thornton dumb script and directed by a black guy I guess, might explain why some critics loved it, Siskel & Ebert, come on! Bill Paxton as redneck Arkansas cop … it was just so bad and violent and dumb … why do good people recommend bad movies? This isn’t even a 2.5, it’s a 2 star movie, don’t see this.

Barbarella (1968) … Totally bizarre and a PG rating to boot despite opening cosmic striptease and young Jane Fonda’s lovely tits being on full display … little savage metal-teethed children nibbling on Jane’s bloodied thighs, seriously WTF! And how about that Orgasmatron!! I’ve always like Jane Fonda, I think she’s beautiful and talented, but this was unwatchable … yes, I know it’s camp and a cult classic, etc., but not for me! 2 stars.

Pinocchio (1940) … Disney … importance of the score … weird story of little boys taken to Pleasure Island (not Epstein’s) where they can smoke cigars and play pool and be “gluttons,” but then they’re turned into donkeys and sent to work in the salt mines?!? And what’s with Geppetto being trapped inside a whale? What drugs were these people doing? Freaky. Be “brave, truthful, and unselfish” except for when America comes First. 3 stars since everyone should see all the early Disney movies.

Bugonia (2025) … pretty mild for a Lanthimos movie … I found Todd terrifying in Breaking Bad and he’s ever scarier with dirty hair … Sam Bankman-Fried plays his cousin … Emma channeling Tilda Swinton character from Michael Clayton (loved that movie) … 1 hour 58 minute running time… surely it could have been tightened up by half an hour? Didn’t hate it, but there is much better, older, Lanthimos than this. Seek that out instead. 3 stars at best.

Cold Water (1994) … Who cares about these bratty French teens? I LOVE Virginie Ledoyen, she’s super cute and has a great 17-year-old bod, and I really enjoyed La Fille seule (A Single Girl), which unlike this movie, is interesting and a pleasure to watch, but this was just bad… the tragic ending was OK, but of course made no sense. Olivier Assayas made Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper, BOTH of which I HATED.

Bad Timing (1980) … over two hours long and terrible… hated the disjointed storytelling … Artie Garfunkel and his beezer, Harvey Keitel a German cop with a strong Brighton Beach accent … Theresa Russell has a white trashy quality about her and the pit hair is a no-no … Old Man Roeg ended up marrying her … awful, hated that several people recommended this.

Secrets & Lies (1996) … another awful Mike Leigh movie .. of course the black girl can’t be related to those dumb working class whites … just terrible, and over two hours long… who recommended this to me? Shame on them!

Lola Montes (1955) … now I liked La Ronde and I think Max Oppenheimer (Ophuls) was super talented but this was just so long and sort of terrible. Boo hiss. Don’t see this.

The Awful Truth (1937) … Leo McCarey comedy … Irene Dunne is no match for Cary Grant, not as beautiful, and not as good a comic actor, which sort of spoils it … Carole Lombard was beautiful and talented enough to act opposite Grant, but never did (I don’t think) … oops, Google says they starred together in In Name Only (1939) — will have to try to see that … this movie has a lot of funny bits, post-Depression “rich people are silly” thing, white telephone, but I’ll have to see more 1937 movies before I can recommend it.

El Norte (1983) … too long, wasn’t interested … illegal immigrant journey to Murka from Guatemala, circa 1983 … probably seems quaint now. Rating: 2.5.

Siblings, not lovers

The Beach (2000) … young Leo DiCaprio (born 1974) … I watched this for Virginie Ledoyen (born 1976), whom I loved in A Single Girl … this is too long and the story is kind of dumb, well, really dumb. Leo uses Excite Mail! Wonder how much that product placement cost. Tilda Swinton (born 1960) is good, as always, and looks amazing for age 40. Rating: 2.5.

High Art (1998) … I liked this one enough to create a separate page for it. “Baruch Hashem we got out before.” Rating 3.5

Tropical Malady (2005) … homosexual love story from Thailand, weird, awful, can’t bear to listen to the Thai language … bad movies are a malady, but there is a cure: don’t watch them!

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