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  Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice written by Larry Tucker and Paul Mazursky, directed by the latter is included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, and Variety has published recently its Top 100 Comedies – or else, I have learned about this lately – where this feature has a top spot, as far as I remember it is higher that the 50 th spot – speaking of these pages, you have access to my own more than five thousand notes on films from these and other compilations, together with another five thousand reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and You Tube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you may even subscribe, if you wish     9 out of 10   First a correction: I wrote above that this comedy is within the first fifty of Variety’s Top 100, I just saw that it is in fact ranked 90 th , I could have edited the above, but maybe this way I will re...

  Humor Me, written and directed by Sam Hoffman 9 out of 10 Humor Me is an excellent comedy. It benefits from a great script and director- the writer is also the director. Furthermore, the actor in the leading role, Jemaine Clement, is wonderful, charismatic, talented, we should see him in mainstream, big budget films, if we are not talking Avengers or other productions that appear to waste the skills of those involved and the time of the discerning audiences. Cherry on top, we have a Giant of cinema, the eternal Eliott Gould in the role of the father, Bob Kroll. Jemaine Clement plays Nate Kroll, the son. Nate is a playwright who has had an important success with a play that announced him as a future established writer. As he tries to create another landmark work, his wife, Nirit, leaves him for a French billionaire. She takes their son away and they would communicate over Skype, with details of the luxurious, resplendent life she enjoys in Monet Carlo and other exuberant places gi...

  Note on The Deal, with William H Macy, Meg Ryan, Elliott Gould | realini

  Glory, based on books by Peter Burchard and Lincoln Kirstein 9.4 out of 10 This Glorious motion picture is more than just a formidable pleasure that we take in an afternoon at the theater, it goes way beyond that, for it is more than educational, it is inspiring and the story of the all-black volunteers serves to enlighten those of us who had not been familiar with some of the aspects of the American Civil War – better said most or all aspects of it – offers us plenty of role models, as well as the insight into what these heroes have had to put up with, even when they tried to offer their services and ultimately their lives for the North, they had to cope with adversity, trauma, humiliation and more. Indeed, for some time, they did not even have shoes or boots for their legs, resulting in unbearable suffering –and in one memorable case, Private Trip aka iconic, winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, the Golden Globe and other prizes for his part, tries t...

  Note on Blume in Love, writer, director Paul Mazursky, with George Segal... | realini

  In The Fade aka Auf Dem Nichts, written by Hark Bohm and Fatih Akin In The Fade has won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film, although in this cinephile's opinion, Una Mujer Fantastica- which has won the Oscar in the same category- Nelyubov or The Square would have been better choices. Having said that, Auf Dem Nichts is a very good, significant, remarkable feature, that attracts attention to violence against minorities, in this case the Kurdish community in Germany. It is therefore not one sided, we do not have only Muslim lunatics killing innocent "infidels", but also some extreme Europeans murdering the other side. The problem is that, unacceptable, horrifying and vile as these acts are, it appears that the overwhelming majority of atrocities are committed by zealots acting in the name of Islam- radical and unrepresentative as they are for this supposedly peaceful faith, although there are passages in its holy book that seem to insist on a violent jihad and ultimat...