In French. 125 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long. Kidnapping movie. I wasn’t thrilled with this. Boring and you kind of wanted the kidnappers to kill this guy. I did laugh when the cops would open ransom envelopes with their bare hands and run to drop box locations in train stations. Pointless in the end. No idea why John Farr recommended it. I certainly don’t.
Vie difficile
High-polish black is kind of neat, but I wouldn’t buy this. 10,000 units.
Not thrilled with this design, wouldn’t buy it. 10,000 units. Duplicate post. High polish brass. (Retired 2024)
I found this nice list of college selectivity and thought I’d re-present it by state. You should NOT consider attending any college below these top two tiers, unless it is your state university and cheap. There are fewer than 100 “selective” colleges in the entire United States.
California:
California Institute of Technology
Claremont McKenna College
Harvey Mudd College
Pomona College
Stanford University
University of Southern California
Connecticut:
Yale University
Illinois:
Northwestern University
University of Chicago
Maine:
Bowdoin College
Colby College
Maryland:
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts:
Amherst College
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tufts University
Williams College
Minnesota:
Carleton College
Missouri:
Washington University
New Hampshire:
Dartmouth College
New Jersey:
Princeton University
New York:
Barnard College (womens’ college)
Columbia University
Cornell University
North Carolina:
Duke University
Pennsylvania:
Swarthmore College
University of Pennsylvania
Rhode Island:
Brown University
Tennessee:
Vanderbilt University
Texas:
Rice University
Washington, DC:
Georgetown University
California:
Scripps College (womens’ college)
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles
Colorado:
Colorado College
Connecticut:
Trinity College
Wesleyan University
Florida:
University of Miami
Georgia:
Emory University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Indiana:
University of Notre Dame
Iowa:
Grinnell College
Louisiana:
Tulane University
Maine:
Bates College
Massachusetts:
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Northeastern University
Smith College (womens’ college)
Wellesley College (womens’ college)
Michigan:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
New York:
Colgate University
Cooper Union
Hamilton College
New York University
University of Rochester
Vassar College
North Carolina:
Davidson College
Wake Forest University
Ohio:
Case Western Reserve University
Oregon:
Reed College
Pennsylvania:
Bucknell University
Carnegie Mellon University
Haverford College
Lehigh University
Villanova University
Texas:
Trinity University
Vermont:
Middlebury College
Virginia:
University of Richmond
University of Virginia
Washington and Lee University
In French. 94 minute running time. A movie about tragic death and grief and guilt and troubled children and lonely adults and public school politics and the French language and refugees and bureaucrats, etc… definitely wouldn’t fly in Murka, but I really liked this (yes, a green-go). I probably saw it a decade ago and just re-watched it and still liked it (a little heavy-handed in parts, but that’s ok). Bring your tissues.
Menteur!
99 minute running time … I enjoyed this one, it’s a green-go. I vaguely remember the story of Stephen Glass fabricating whole stories out of thin air … one thing that’s interesting and not explored in the movie is the fact that Glass is Jewish and Marty Peretz is Jewish, but the editors and most fellow writers were all Gentiles … not a whisper about this dynamic in the movie … anyway, it’s well made, not overly long, not boring. It’s a winner. It’s sort of quaint now … back in 1998, the cusp of the internet age, magazines like The New Republic mattered, but of course it doesn’t anymore. The entire newspaper/magazine industry has been decimated by the internet (with democracy failing alongside it). No need to shed a tear?
This was a John Farr reco and I thank him for it.
In Russian. 106 minute running time. I saw this movie 20 years ago and forgot that I had seen it. Andrei Svyagintsev made my favorite Russian movie of the last 25 years, Elena, so I remember seeing this one afterward and not being thrilled with it. The symbolism was a little too much for me… I guess the father represented the Russian state maybe and his kids were the Russian people? In any event, it was too abstruse for me (but I’m dumb). I can see how some would really love this movie, but for now I say just consider seeing it, a yellow rating. This was a John Farr reco.
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh
In Norwegian. 116 minute running time, yes, a little overly long (maybe cut the scene with the drug addict’s mother?) but I REALLY liked this movie, this a green-go recommended movie from me (RARE). It’s true that I like church organ music (and not just because I’m an expert at playing with my own organ), but this movie was good beyond the organ music (I actually wasn’t that thrilled with the other music, heavy on heartstring guitar) … this is a movie that Christians will enjoy, I think … forgiveness and mercy major themes here, crime and punishment. This was a John Farr reco and it’s 15 years old now and I had never heard of it, which makes me wonder how many other good movies I’ve missed.
The actress in the screencap below took my breath away with that scene … I was gobsmacked. That kind of talent in just amazing to see… she’s Danish.
Recognition then all the emotions that followed, my God what an actress!
In German. 124 minute running time so 25 minutes too long … this wasn’t terrible, another John Farr recommendation, but once again it isn’t good enough for ME to recommend. I could have cut a lot out and restructured the story to make it a green-go. I was glad to see that there was a full frontal nudity scene with a guy who had a normal penis.
Bis spater … pre-Barbie Doll Millennial era when women had intact bushes
121 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … I went to fast forward after 20 minutes but slowed it back down for Walker/Hopper scene which was funny. This was the first thing Quentin Tarantino wrote that actually got made into a movie, I think. It has all the Tarantino hallmarks: non-stop swearing, snappy dialogue, extreme violence, humor, and general absurdity. You get the sense that Tarantino is a man-child, a goofy guy who miraculously caught a break and broke into the industry instead of being a movie rental clerk, where he possibly should have remained for the good of mankind. John Farr recommended it, but I certainly don’t … unless you want to see James Gandolfini before he got fat.
Patricia Arquette has great knockers
