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Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney, included on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, but if you ask me, it is one of the Top 100, and as a comedy, it would be in the Top 20 http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world 10 out of 10

Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney, included on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, but if you ask me, it is one of the Top 100, and as a comedy, it would be in the Top 20   http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/unique-in-world.html?q=unique+in+the+world 10 out of 10     This is an absolutely magnificent, alert, modern, or post-modern, enticing, hilarious, thoughtful, also tragic, insightful, sophisticated, outré, dazzling, intoxicating and vivid, original, written in the second person – now when is the last time you have read about…You in a novel, you are the reader and also…the protagonist – You are twenty four, work as a fact- checker at one of the prestigious New York Magazines – we should think of The New Yorker maybe – where you had dreamed to be, only it does not work too well   ‘Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don’t want to invite any one inside’ and yes, some of us, the readers, will have ide...
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Note on Young Mr. Lincoln

97 out of 100 for Young Mr Lincoln | realini
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Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway was the 1961 Nominee for Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for the author of the original, James Kennaway, it is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list – you find more than five thousand notes on films from The NYT Best 1,000 and other sites, along with another about 5k reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html I think there are three subscribers, you might join a select group

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  Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway was the 1961 Nominee for Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium for the author of the original, James Kennaway, it is also included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list – you find more than five thousand notes on films from The NYT Best 1,000 and other sites, along with another about 5k reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html I think there are three subscribers, you might join a select group     9 out of 10   Alec Guiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/lawrence-of-arabia-screenplay-by-robert.html was one of the greatest thespians of all time – though I think it should be Sir Alec Guiness, and you find on the net this story told by Sir Michael Caine: he was about to act with Lord Laurence Olivier in Sleuth, there were ...
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Note on Z for Zachariah

  From the Macaws'Garden about Z for Zachariah | realini
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The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti - “The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.”— from The Sunday Telegraph, this is ranked 1454th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, although it must have been higher up when I saw it, for I have decided to try this and the algorithm changes places there – you have more than five thousand reviews on magnum opera (well, some of them) from the aforementioned GOAT and other pages, together with about as many notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you could even subscribe

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  The Shipyard by Juan Carlos Onetti - “The Graham Greene of Uruguay . . . foreshadowing the work of Beckett and Camus.”— from The Sunday Telegraph, this is ranked 1454 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, although it must have been higher up when I saw it, for I have decided to try this and the algorithm changes places there – you have more than five thousand reviews on magnum opera (well, some of them) from the aforementioned GOAT and other pages, together with about as many notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you could even subscribe     7 out of 10   I must be very careful with these lines, for I just received a warning (something like that) from Goodreads, so let me put a spoiler alert here, I did not enjoy The Shipyard, and that is about all there is to the ‘review connected to the topic’ – b...
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The Square by Ruben Ostlund is The 2017 Winner of The Palme d'Or and one of the best features of this century, also one of my favorites – you find more than five thousand notes on favorites of mine, and those from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, along with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you may wish to be the fourth to subscribe

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  The Square by Ruben Ostlund is The 2017 Winner of The Palme d'Or and one of the best features of this century, also one of my favorites – you find more than five thousand notes on favorites of mine, and those from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists, along with reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel at https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you may wish to be the fourth to subscribe     10 out of 10   I have watched Sentimental Value https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/sentimental-value-written-by-eskil-vogt.html recently with my daughter, and this made me think of another impressive Scandinavian film maker, well, two actually, for I have started looking at the chefs d’oeuvre of Ingmar Bergman as well   Ruben Ostlund has already won two Palms d’Or, in a short period of time, and seeing as he is only fifty-tw...
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Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Bunuel, with Catherine Deneuve

  Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Bunuel, with Catherine Deneuve A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ Luis Bunuel has an unusual, at times surrealist take on making movies. Notwithstanding its eccentricity, Belle de Jour is more "rational" than say The Exterminating Angel. The film has been included on the New York Times' Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made List: -            http://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/checklist/3 The phenomenal director has created other masterpieces: -            The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Diary of a Chambermaid, That Obscure Object of Desire and others T...
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