99 minute running time … a TWTR buddy suggested this Lars Von Trier comedy (?!?) since I loved Breaking the Waves … maybe this was funny if you knew Danish, sort of a “The Office” vibe, workplace humor, and pretentious theater humor, I guess. I didn’t make it very far in before throwing in the towel. A waste of a borrow really, but I’m used to that. Skip it.
There will be no f*cking until you get a proper bl*w job….
Spotify algo suggested … strong voice, talented singer … and she’s beautiful. Interesting article about Madison Ryann Ward in the University of Oklahoma magazine.
115 minute running time so at least 20 minutes too long … immigrant story, Korean couple with two kids who go to Arkansas (?!?) in the 1980s … Dad wants to be a farmer, not just a chicken sexer, and his more practical wife isn’t thrilled … lots of heart-warming piano music … trials and tribulations, but they don’t face any real racism or nastiness, it was all pretty sunny stuff … I wasn’t thrilled. John Farr reco’d this, but I sure wouldn’t.
God please save our family.
Nice discussion about poker and day trading:
117 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … a W.D. By movie (I think he’s gay) … a lesbian love story set in the 1840s … Kate Winslet plays the handsome man (who’s stacked) and Saoirse Ronan plays the elven princess … there’s some serious muff diving, but I just didn’t care about any of it, and it’s slooooww … it wasn’t badly made, in many ways it’s very good, but it just wasn’t for me. This was a John Farr reco, but I say give it a miss.
Adam Graham gets it right: “[It] never really catches fire. It's just a lot of smoke, which makes it even harder to see through the film's hazy lens.”
Rex liked it, but writes: “The movie is also ponderously slow—the cinematic equivalent of liquid valium.” And: “Ammonite has moments of delicacy and beauty, but it’s not a movie for everybody.”
We should share the bed
This is what I look at all day long. I love it so much I’d do it for free, which is exactly how much I make, after borrow costs.
Lizzie McAlpine singing “Give Me a Minute” … love her voice and the song.
90 minute running time … Paramount 1941 … cute movie, charming, made before America went to world war (the second time) … Veronica Lake is something else … it’s worth seeing for her alone .. W.D. By Preston Sturges … unfortunately Criterion had Noah Baumbach (?!?) do the commentary instead of someone qualified and learned, so I couldn’t listen to it … this is a green-go, recommended. John Farr liked it too.
Don’t get ritzy.
Skip to 11:00 … Shorty what you want? Shorty what you need?
93 minute running time … Marx Brothers movie from 1929 making fun of the Florida land boom and bust … “You can have any kind of a home you want to. You can even get stucco -- Oh, how you can get stuck-o!“ The usual word play, slapstick humor, and general zaniness interspersed with musical numbers … it was a charming formula and I had quite a few laughs. This was their first big-screen comedy.
Groucho’s dinner speech:
In behalf of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, I wanted to take this occasion of welcoming you to Waukegan ... No, no, I, er, I mean, in recognition of my many years of service with the railroad, you have presented me with these ties. Now, that, of course, reminds me of the story of the Irishman. It's so funny. I wish I could think of it. Oft in the stilly night, the trembling of a leaf can be heard, sighing through the trees, and the babbling brook as it wends its way onward, babbling and ...Why a duck?
