Dominique Fils-Aimé with “You Left Me” … again using the pop sound to mask the dark lyrics, I dig it:
Movies Watched -- Tetro (2008)
127 minute running time so at least 30 to 40 minutes too long … this was terrible, I hated it… a Francis Ford Coppola self-funded vanity piece … I like Vinnie Gallo’s movies so someone recommended I watch this one where he’s an actor instead of the writer director producer, etc., but that was an awful idea.
Peter Rainer correctly wrote that it is “an inchoate mass of half-baked (and sometimes blackened) Oedipal dramaturgy … whenever Coppola goes into his indie-outsider dance, he stumbles badly.”
Kyle Smith correctly calls the movie a “frazzled, fractured monster” and writes, “Having passed through the phases of Interesting Apprentice, Mad Genius, Chastened Bankrupt and Shameless Wage Slave, Coppola at 70 may be the world’s oldest student filmmaker.”
Marjorie Baumgarten correctly writes, “… judging by the narrative flabbiness of [the] film, it might be possible to conclude that the Sturm and Drang of answering to one’s backers is not necessarily a bad thing for the overall artistic process.”
Peter Bradshaw wrote the best review of all: “a self-indulgent mess … it is laboured, massively implausible, excruciatingly self-important and really quite staggeringly boring in the way only a deeply personal film from a deeply important film-maker can be.”
She is 18 years old, like you
Perhaps That Was A Mistake
I love the typically British understatement:
MacDONALD: I was very surprised to hear General Westmoreland tell me that he had not studied the Indochina War, because he ...
LAMB: He never did?
MacDONALD: Apparently not. And I liked him; I admired him. You know, I don't want to say anything just hurtful to him, but it did surprise me that he had not studied this, because after all, he was fighting the same people and the same general, and they had fought the French for nine years. So I asked him, actually, if they had studied it at Ft. Leavenworth or at the war college and they hadn't. And so I think perhaps that was a mistake.
Straight Line To Normalcy
Haley Blais with “Seventeen” … she’s my kind of dork, I dig it:
Movies Watched -- Frozen River (2008)
97 minute running time … this was slit-your-wrists depressing, a low-budget movie about a poor single white mother living in the northern border town of Massena, NY who gets involved with a young Mohawk woman who is a smuggler of illegals (mostly Chinese) across the frozen St. Lawrence river from Canada… (the beautiful blonde upper-middle class white woman who wrote this script and directed the movie went to Sarah Lawrence, which shouldn’t be confused with St. Lawrence county) … anyway, damn, I had to fast forward through most of this because the sadsack people and muddy, down and out places were just too awful to watch at normal speed… I think the star was a good actress, she looked like a version of Bonnie Raitt if Bonnie had grown up in an upstate New York trailer park instead of Beverly Hills.
That sicko John Farr is to blame for this reco. You can give it a miss.
I just want my double.
Being The Change
Dominique Fils-Aimé with “While We Wait” … pretty cleverly done, I love the transition … beautiful voice and smart songwriting; I dig it:
I Put My Hand In, Into The Wedbush
Bonny Light Horseman with Deep in Love … I dig it:
There Are Currently 31 Alternative Trading Systems in the US
These active “dark pools” exist in addition to the current “lit” 16 stock exchanges in the US.
Listed by trading activity … the top four ATS’s do around 60% of all ATS trades, the top six around 75%, the top ten around 90%; in terms of ATS volume, the top ten ATS do around 75% of the total, the bottom 20 around 25% (because of block trading):
UBSA — UBS ATS (UBS)
SGMT — SIGMA X2 (Goldman Sachs)
CROS — CROSSFINDER (Credit Suisse)
JPMX — JPM-X (J.P. Morgan)
LATS — THE BARCLAYS ATS (Barclays)
MSPL — MS POOL (ATS-4) (Morgan Stanley)
JPBX — JPB-X (J.P. Morgan)
KCGM — VIRTU MATCHIT ATS (Virtu)
MSRP — MS RPOOL (ATS-6) (Morgan Stanley)
MSTX — MS TRAJECTORY CROSS (ATS-1) (Morgan Stanley)
BNPX — BNPP CORTEX ATS (BNP Paribas)
MLIX — INSTINCT X (Bank of America Securities)
ITGP — POSIT (Virtu)
ICBX — CBX (INSTINET CONTINUOUS BLOCK CROSSING SYSTEM)
XSTM — CROSSSTREAM (Fidelity)
BLKX — INSTINET BLOCKCROSS (Nomura)
CBLC — CITIBLOC (Citibank)
PJCX — XE (Piper Sandler)
STFX — STIFEL X (Stifel, Nicolaus & Company)
Movies Watched -- Swingers (1996)
96 minute running time but felt like an eternity … some funny bits at first but then it turned into this pathetic Gen-X whiny white guy loser thing, talk talk talking, borrrriiinnnggg … neat to see Vince Vaughn when he was young and gorgeous, before he became a fat, dissipated old guy like someone I know (he’s exactly my age, nearly to the day). Jon Favreau also got fat and unrecognizable in that last 25 years. I hated this movie and fast forwarded through most of it. Give it a miss.
West coast representation
Movies Watched -- Lone Star (1996)
134 minute running time … way way way too long and way too convoluted, flashbacks almost never work. I went to fast forward after 30 minutes … third story line involving a black family (Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson the father) which I didn’t get at all, maybe if they had cut that story line out the movie would have worked or at least been bearable … tons of talking, maybe the script looked good on paper but it made for a terrible movie. Oh, it’s a John Sayles movie? No wonder it’s no good. Give it a miss.
Mick LaSalle wrote about another Sayles’ movie: “the stories are bland, the connections are incidental and the dramatic payoff is nonexistent.” I think that’s true for all of them. LaSalle continues: “[Sayles’] ideas are just banal: Things change. Progress is destabilizing. The relentless spirit of free enterprise can sometimes do more harm than good … He needs to say something else.”
No one mumble mumble stays in love for 23 years