In Italian. 125 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long. Monica Vitti is nice to look at but I wasn’t interested in the boring? love? story (despite the stock exchange scenes) and fast forwarded through it. Next!
Movies Watched -- Amores Perros (2000)
In Spanish. 153 running time so way way way too long … three overlapping stories of people living in Mexico City, which is sort of a gimmick … one story low-lifes and dog fighting, another story about a man who leaves his wife for a model who is then in a horrific car accident, the model, not the man), and the last story is about a former college professor who is now a bum / hit man. Amores Perros is translated as “Love’s a Bitch,” so they’re all love (and betrayal) stories of sorts, but none of the characters is likable … I got what the director was doing (“the anguished nature of love”), I only wish he had been able to do it in 100 minutes or so….
Andrew O’Hehir wrote a good review … “cruelty and violence … are always evil and always corrosive.”
Name the baby Octavio
Feel Like I'm Born To Lose
Son Little with “Neve Give Up” … big fan of Son Little and love the way he ends this one:
Movies Watched -- A Special Day (1977)
In Italian. 105 minute running time. I have no idea how this ended up in my queue but I’m glad it did since I LOVED this movie … it’s a great story shot in interesting ways, just really well done, absolutely a green-go. Ah, it was John Farr who recommended it, which figures, and I agree with him 100%. Bravo, Ettore Scola!
“You’re not like the others, you’re here with me,”
Ain't Got Much Goin' My Way
Soul Scratch with “The Road Looks Long” … I dig it:
MicroSectors™ ETNs
Hadn’t heard of these before today:
BNKU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: BAC, C, GS, JPM, MS, PNC, SCHW, TFC, USB, WFC), ave vol 223,000
BNKD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 71,000
BULZ 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 15: AAPL, ADBE, AMD, AMZN, CRM, FB, GOOGL, INTC, MSFT, MU, NFLX, NVDA, PYPL, SQ, TSLA), ave vol 3.16MM
BERZ -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 64,000
FNGU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: AAPL, AMZN, BABA, BIDU, FB, GOOGL, MSFT, NFLX, NVDA, TSLA), ave vol 7.06MM
FNGD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 719,000
GDXU 3X Leveraged Exposure (75% GDX, 25% GDXJ), ave vol 732,000
GDXD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure
NRGU 3X Leveraged Exposure (Equally weighted 10: COP, CVX, DVN, EOG, MPC, OXY, PSX, PXD, VLO, XOM), ave vol 193,000
NRGD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 123,000
OILU 3X Leveraged Exposure (25 components, exploration and production of oil and gas), ave vol 107,000
OILD -3X Inverse Leveraged Exposure, ave vol 67,000
Weight of the Planets
Aldous Harding says “In your eyes I see the weight of the planets, And it's sucking you out.” I dig it:
Movies Watched -- Repo Man (1984)
96 minute running time … this was a weird one, but weird in a good way, wonderfully weird, must be a “cult classic” … I enjoyed its early 80s vibe, goofy story, and heavy-on-punk-rock soundtrack. This is a green-go.
Ebert correctly wrote: “‘Repo Man’ comes out of left field, has no big stars, didn't cost much, takes chances, dares to be unconventional, is funny, and works.”
It isn’t sausage, Otto
You're On Your Own
Katy Kirby with “Juniper” … I dig it:
One Is Not Like The Other
State of the Crypto Bubble, time-stamp it.
