Movies Watched -- Let the Sunshine In (2018)

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94 minute running time but I went to fast forward after 11 minutes … this was comically bad, very French … Juliette Binoche is beautiful and still looks pretty amazing for age 57, but dressing like a 17-year-old at 57 doesn’t work … she plays a super neurotic successful artist (er, painter of giant squiggly lines) who has a string of really repugnant “boyfriends” .. the movie is a series of completely pointless and annoying conversations, very French in other words.

She has a ten-year-old daughter we see only once and for five seconds (lives with Dad). Would a mother of a little girl behave like this? Gérard Depardieu shows up at the end to play a fortune teller for fifteen excruciating minutes. “I see someone new coming into your life, someone with a giant crooked nose.” Oh god this was awful.

Gay men inexplicably love everything that Claire Denis makes (yes, this was a Farr recommendation), but you should steer clear of this one.

Sandra Hall gets it right: “Juliette Binoche talkfest takes dive into the absurd” … “There's something morbidly compelling about the spectacle of such self-indulgence being allowed to run amok.”

From Deborah Ross’s review: “… everyone talks in endless circles, tiresomely and pointlessly.” How many French movies has she seen? lol

I'd think, “He's a bastard”... and I'd come. [yes, many lines in the movie like this one!]

I'd think, “He's a bastard”... and I'd come. [yes, many lines in the movie like this one!]

Movies Watched -- Working Girls (1986)

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93 minute running time but I think I made it 15 minutes in before going to 8x fast forward … awful 1980s soundtrack, so bad it made me cringe … a day in the life of a “high class hooker” … talk talk talk, I just wasn’t interested. A movie made by women for women, no man could sit through this. I have no idea how this ended up in my queue. Give it a miss.

Let’s play a game….

Let’s play a game….

Movies Watched -- Deep Cover (1992)

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107 minutes so at least 20 minute too long .. I added this to the queue on the news that Criterion will re-release this, but it was super low budget and I wasn’t thrilled… stars young “Larry” (not Laurence) Fishburne, directed by Bill Duke. Criterion called it an “unsung gem of the nineties’ Black cinema,” but I didn’t think it was particularly Black though it was definitely 1990s. There are better cynical movies about the drug trade and politics than this one, you can give it a miss.

In that case I’ll take two of them

In that case I’ll take two of them

Twitter Cleanup April 2021

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I recently hired a Russian programmer to make me a new interface for Twitter since I needed a better way to use the service … I found a lot of “dead” accounts that I follow and wanted to make a note of them here for reference:

  • CoffeyGrinds @exit50 — after Twitter ban, possibly gave up trying to re-build following?

  • Short VIX Capital LLC @yincity — no original tweets, just occasional retweets now

  • Candice Choi @candicechoi — no original tweets, just occasional retweets now

  • Rachel Beitarie @Bendilaowa — tweets almost exclusively in Hebrew now

  • Jeremy Justice @jeremyjustice — no tweets since January

  • Joe Cool @SnoopyJC — just tweets opening and closing trades, no value

  • Shanghaiist.com @shanghaiist — last tweet July 2020

Risks of Trading Bitcoin

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This section of the risk disclosure made me laugh:

“The underlying ‘cash’ markets for Bitcoins (the product from which Bitcoin Futures and Options are derived) are largely unregulated, and many are offshore. Underlying Bitcoin markets may not be subject to registration, licensing, or fitness requirements, audit trail or trade reporting rules, market integrity rules, wash sale, spoofing, or other anti-fraud rules, disaster recovery or cybersecurity requirements, surveillance requirements, or anti-money laundering rules. Because of these factors, Bitcoin markets may be unusually susceptible to fraud and manipulation, which could adversely affect the price of Bitcoin Futures and Options.”

Movies Watched -- The Great Escape (1963)

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172 minute running time which means it’s an hour and a half too long … I went to ffwd after 20 minutes … I got his after enjoying Dickie Attenborough’s performance in Guns at Batasi and Steve McQueen’s in Papillon. The Elmer Bernstein music one of the main reasons I couldn’t sit through this … plus the absurd running time. It probably wasn’t bad, but unwatchable by my standards.

Bronson looking fit

Bronson looking fit