Or: money, sex and power.
Watched Booknotes episode Great Souls: Six Who Changed the Century with David Aikman. Mentioned A WORLD SPLIT APART Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address at Harvard University on June 8, 1978
Movies Watched -- Morvern Callar (2001)
97 minute running time … a Lynne Ramsay movie desperately in need of subtitles … I didn’t understand a word so I had to fast forward through all of it… this was on the BFI list so I saw it … the lead actress Samantha Morton reminds me of Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves) … kind of a strange story, I don’t know what the audience is supposed to make of it? I’ve seen Ratcatcher (depressing), and I still think You Were Never Really Here is Ramsay’s best movie ever.
“Morvern Callar has no inner world that's penetrable, intelligible or even credible … She leaves us totally baffled about her motives, emotions and mental state.” — Alexander Walker .. it’s true, you do wonder about her…
“…rare is the movie that convincingly presents the interior life of a cracked mind.” — Michael Agger
Movies Watched -- Cat Person (2023)
120 minute running time … I liked this a lot but it ran about 20 minutes too long .. I never read the original short story it is based on … Susan Fogel also made Booksmart, which I hated because it was filled with F-bombs, but Cat Person was much, much better. It’s about a girl who goes to Farleigh Dickinson U. (never named), she’s a 20-year-old sophomore … I liked that her Pomfret sweatshirt identifies her as a rich kid … she’s very attractive … there’s a tall, creepy, awkward 33-year-old guy that she has a relationship with… there’s a lot of texting involved (2023 movie after all). It’s pretty insightful about youth culture, I guess, the little I know of it. The main actress is really good, British it turns out… anyway, it’s a green-go recommended movie and since I saw it in the theater, I don’t have a screen-cap. The scene of terrible sex was hilarious and brilliantly done. I think I could do a fan edit and cut out a good 20 minute though to make it perfect. I guess a lot of people are upset about the tacked on last third of the movie compared with the short story, but I see why the filmmakers did it.
Shelia O’Malley correctly wrote: “The sex scene goes on forever! It's excruciating but also hilarious. Fogel and Ashford have found a way to explore what goes on in someone's mind during a bad hook-up, a hook-up you regret not just afterward but as it is happening. This is a very important scene, so perfectly realized it could have been a stand-alone short film.”
Movies Watched -- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
~14 minute running time … silent movie from the 1940s, made by a woman… this was on the BFI Greatest Films of All Time list and my local library happened to have a copy, so I watched it and I have to say there wasn’t much here. I guess it was a “woke” selection since the BFI wants to include more movies by women and other “minorities,” even amateurish shorts like this one, but I can confirm that you can give Meshes of the Afternoon a miss. Tiny Maya Deren has a handsome face and good bones, but that’s about it. I guess she was interested in sex and violence and death, but don’t know for sure.
Playing with knives
The Greatest Films of All Time (Chronological) -- English Language Only
The Greatest Films of All Time … 2022 poll … English Language Only, listed chronologically … movies I’ve see are in bold and movies I’ve see and recommend are noted:
Intolerance (1916)
Greed (1923)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The General (1926)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Crowd (1928)
City Lights (1931)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
Duck Soup (1933)
Modern Times (1936)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
His Girl Friday (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941) — recommended
Casablanca (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942) — recommended
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944) — recommended
Brief Encounter (1945)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Notorious (1946) — recommended
Black Narcissus (1947)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
Out of the Past (1947) — recommended
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) — long, boring, unrealistic
The Red Shoes (1948) — too long, too boring, too gay
The Third Man (1949) — recommended
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
All about Eve (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
SIngin’ in the Rain (1951) — recommended
The River (1951)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Rear Window (1954) — recommended
All That Heaven Allows (1955) — recommended
The Night of the Hunter (1955) — recommended
The Searchers (1956)
Rio Bravo (1958)
Vertigo (1958) — recommended
Imitation of Life (1959) — another Sirk? One Sirk is enough
North by Northwest (1959) — recommended
Some Like It Hot (1959) — recommended
Touch of Evil (1958)
Psycho (1960)
The Apartment (1960) — recommended
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Dr. Strangelove or… (1963) — recommended
The Birds (1963)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One (1967)
Wavelength (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Wanda (1970) — token “feminist” movie
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Godfather (1972) — recommended
Pink Flamingos (1972) — John Waters’ movies good if you need to induce vomiting
Don’t Look Now (1973)
A Woman under the Influence (1974) — Cassavetes means hell no, hard pass, awful awful awful
Chinatown (1974) — recommended
The Godfather Part II (1974) — recommended
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Mirror (1975)
Nashville (1975)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
News from Home (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976) — recommended
Annie Hall (1977) — recommended
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Star Wars (1977) — recommended
Days of Heaven (1978) — recommended
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Alien (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Raging Bull (1980)
The Shining (1980) — recommended
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) — recommended
Blade Runner (1982) — recommended
The Thing (1982)
Born in Flames (1983)
Once upon a Time in America (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
Love Streams (1984) — there is NOTHING WORSE on the planet than a Cassavetes movie
Paris, Texas (1984) — hated this
Blue Velvet (1986) — creepy weirdo David Lynch (not again)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Do the Right Thing (1989) — if you’re going to include a token black movie, I guess this it it
GoodFellas (1990)
Paris is Burning (1990)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Orlando (1992) — sort of interesting
The Piano (1992)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) — creepy weirdo David Lynch
Pulp Fiction (1994) — recommended (with caveats)
Heat (1995) — recommended (with caveats)
Crash (1996)
The Watermelon Woman (1997) — token black homosexual movie (two for one), bah
Magnolia (1999) — PT Anderson, hard pass
The Matrix (1999)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Morvern Callar (2001) — incomprehensible without subtitles
Mulholland Dr. (2001) — recommended
There Will Be Blood (2007) — way way too long
The Tree of Life (2010) — interminable navel gazing, Malick made one good movie
Under the Skin (2013) — recommended
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) — recommended
Moonlight (2016) — token black homosexual movie (two for one), bah
Get Out (2017) — token black movie, bah
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) — creepy weirdo David lynch, bah
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) — Lesbians, bah
The Greatest Films of All Time (BFI Ranked) -- English Language Only
The Greatest Films of All Time (Foreign language movies in italics) … 2022 poll … English Language Only … stupid ranking… see my Chronological Listing instead!
Vertigo (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
SIngin’ in the Rain (1951)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
The Searchers (1956)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Mirror (1975)
Psycho (1960)
City Lights (1931)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Rear Window (1954)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
North by Northwest (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Wanda (1970)
The Piano (1992)
News from Home (1976)
Blade Runner (1982)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The Apartment (1960)
Moonlight (2016)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Casablanca (1942)
GoodFellas (1990)
The Third Man (1949)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Shining (1980)
Get Out (2017)
The General (1926)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Rio Bravo (1958)
Jaws (1975)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
A Woman under the Influence (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Thing (1982)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Matrix (1999)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
His Girl Friday (1939)
Raging Bull (1980)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Notorious (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
Alien (1979)
Chinatown (1974)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Orlando (1992)
Once upon a Time in America (1983)
Out of the Past (1947)
Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One (1967)
Heat (1995)
Under the Skin (2013)
Black Narcissus (1947)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Magnolia (1999)
Greed (1923)
Love Streams (1984)
The River (1951)
The Birds (1963)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Paris is Burning (1990)
The Tree of Life (2010)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Dr. Strangelove or… (1963)
Double Indemnity (1944)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Wavelength (1967)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Brief Encounter (1945)
All about Eve (1950)
Duck Soup (1933)
Crash (1996)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
The Crowd (1928)
Intolerance (1916)
Star Wars (1977)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
Morvern Callar (2001)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Videodrome (1983)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Annie Hall (1977)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Born in Flames (1983)
The Greatest Films of All Time (BFI Ranked)
The Greatest Films of All Time (Foreign language movies in italics) … 2022 poll.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Vertigo (1958)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Tokyo Story (1953)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Beau Travail (1998)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
SIngin’ in the Rain (1951)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
La Regle du jeu (1939)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
The Searchers (1956)
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Close-up (1989)
Persona (1966)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927)
Late Spring (1949)
Playtime (1967)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Shoah (1985)
Daisies (1966)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Mirror (1975)
Psycho (1960)
8 1/2 (1963)
L’atalante (1934)
Pather Panchali (1955)
City Lights (1931)
M (1931)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
A bout de souffle (1960)
Rear Window (1954)
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Rashomon (1950)
Killer of Sheep (1977)
Stalker (1979)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
North by Northwest (1959)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Wanda (1970)
Ordet (1955)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Piano (1992)
Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
News from Home (1976)
Blade Runner (1982)
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Le Mepris (1963)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
The Apartment (1960)
Sans Soleil (1982)
Moonlight (2016)
La dolce vita (1960)
Daughters of the Dust (1991)
Casablanca (1942)
GoodFellas (1990)
The Third Man (1949)
Touki Bouki (1973)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
La Jetee (1962)
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Metropolis (1927)
The Red Shoes (1948)
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Journey to Italy (1954)
L’avventura (1960)
Imitation of Life (1959)
Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
Spirited Away (2001)
Satantango (1994)
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Celine and Julie Go Bathing (1974)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Histoire(s) du Cinema (1988)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Chunking Express (1994)
The Shining (1980)
Madame de… (1953)
The Leopard (1963)
Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
Yi Yi (1999)
Parasite (2019)
Get Out (2017)
Tropical Malady (2004)
Black Girl (1965)
The General (1926)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Rio Bravo (1958)
The House Is Black (1962)
Vagabond (1985)
La Maman et la Putain (1973)
Come and See (1985)
Jaws (1975)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
To Be Or Not To Be (1942)
A Woman under the Influence (1974)
Nashville (1975)
Don’t Look Now (1973)
Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)
The Conformist (1970)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Thing (1982)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Matrix (1999)
The Colour of Pomegranates (1968)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Ascent (1976)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
His Girl Friday (1939)
Raging Bull (1980)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Notorious (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1947)
La cienaga (2001)
Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Sambizanga (1972)
Trouble in Paradise (1932)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Pickpocket (1959)
Partie de campagne (1936)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Gertrud (1964)
The Watermelon Woman (1997)
Vampyr (1932)
Alien (1979)
India Song (1975)
La Grande Illusion (1937)
Chinatown (1974)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960)
Le Bonheur (1965)
West of the Tracks (2002)
Orlando (1992)
A City of Sadness (1989)
All about My Mother (1999)
Where Is the Friends’ House? (1987)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Once upon a Time in America (1983)
Amarcord (1972)
Vivre sa vie (1962)
Out of the Past (1947)
Ikiru (1952)
Los olvidados (1950)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
L’Argent (1983)
Un chien andalou (1928)
Out 1 (1990)
Symbiopyschotaxiplasm: Take One (1967)
Heat (1995)
Under the Skin (2013)
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Red Desert (1964)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Charulata (1964)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Magnolia (1999)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Pyaasa (1957)
Ran (1985)
Greed (1923)
Love Streams (1984)
An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
The River (1951)
The Birds (1963)
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Paris is Burning (1990)
The Headless Woman (2008)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
The Tree of Life (2010)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Zama (2017)
Paisan (1946)
Nosferatu (1922)
One Way or Another (1977)
Dr. Strangelove or… (1963)
Double Indemnity (1944)
L’eclisse (1962)
I Know Where I’m Going! (1945)
Wavelength (1967)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Limite (1931)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
Twenty Years Later (1984)
Melancholia (2011)
Army of Shadows (1969)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Suspiria (1977)
Brief Encounter (1945)
All about Eve (1950)
Duck Soup (1933)
By the Bluest of Seas (1935)
The Green Ray (1986)
Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Blue (1993)
Crash (1996)
Happy Together (1997)
Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Petite Maman (2021)
Je, tu, il, elle (1974)
A Touch of Zen (1969)
The Crowd (1928)
Napoleon (1927)
Europa ‘51 (1952)
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Intolerance (1916)
Star Wars (1977)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
Harlan County, USA (1976)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Quince Tree Sun (1992)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Morvern Callar (2001)
The Intruder (2004)
Syndromes and a Century (2006)
Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Soleil O (1970)
Possession (1981)
Videodrome (1983)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Mouchette (1966)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
Earth (1930)
Annie Hall (1977)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Pandora’s Box (1928)
Born in Flames (1983)
Movies Watched -- Memories of Murder (2003)
In Korean. 131 minute running time … someone in my Discord group recommended this, but it didn’t grab me at all and I only watched 20 minute before going to fast forward … it was way way too long and was made by the same guy who made Parasite (which I hated) … nothing about Korean culture appeals to me, I don’t think I’ve seen a single Korean movie that I’ve ever liked. This is strange because I like dozens of Japanese and Chinese movies.
I think it fell out.
Movies Watched -- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
In German. 93 minute running time … Fassbinder is not a fan of his fellow Germans, that’s for sure … pretty scathing stuff about age and race and class … it’s not an entertaining movie so I can’t give it a green-go, but I guess everyone should see it … John Farr recommends it for sure.
Ali hat einen großen Penis
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