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  Classe de Neige aka Class Trip, written (with others) and directed by Claude Miller 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/ From the very start, this film made me think of my own experience. Therefore, there is a spoiler alert: -            Not that I divulge what goes on or happens at the end! -            On the contrary, given that the film did not really fascinate me, this note is less, or not at all about what happens within, but the thoughts generated by the Moving Pictures… The first words and images are striking for me. In front of a blackboard – which is actually a green board- a teacher explains… The students are going on ...

  The Space Merchants by Cyril Kornbluth and Frederik Pohl 10 out of 10 The Space Merchants is a mesmerizing, captivating Science Fiction masterpiece, which has a surprising love story at its center, as well as political themes, a crime story that develops and keeps readers at the edge of the seat at times, with Mitch Courtenay as the hero, though to begin with he is the representative of the ‘upper class’, as a star class copywriter, one of the crème de la crème that knows about ‘consumers’ only from studies and tests, but not as one of the crowd, in a future that is separated between the consumers and the rest, the former being the poorer equivalents of the middle class of the present, albeit reduced to a state of poverty when compared with the rich of the future – some would become revolutionaries – some of us would hate to think that they might be projections of leftists or worse, commies. Corporations control the future, which might not surprise anyone, although the extent to ...

  One Battle After Another written by Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon and directed by the former seems to be the favorite to win the top awards this year (2025/2026) it has been nominated for nine Golden Globes including for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture – twice - Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture, Best Director - Motion Picture, Best Screenplay - Motion Picture – it might/probably enter The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists – you find more than five thousand notes on films from that and other pages, along with about as many revies on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/d...

  Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 9 out of 10 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/ Boogie Nights is a fantastic treat. You can find it, with other marvels, on list of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made: -            http://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made It won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Burt Reynolds, who is brilliant here. It was also nominated for another Golden Globe, three Academy Awards, two BAFTAs and other important prizes. The cast is simply mesmerizing: -            Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore,...

  Magnolia, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson Magnolia is one of the best films produced over the last twenty years, one of the few masterpieces written and directed by the phenomenal Paul Thomas Anderson, other outstanding films signed by the same author include: There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights. The cast of Magnolia is a Dream Team, with Tom Cruise winning the Golden Globe for his role as Frank T.J. Mackey, an obnoxious, misogynistic celebrity and guru, Jason Robards as Earl Partridge – the dying father of the male chauvinist – Julianne Moore as Linda Partridge, his wife, Philip Seymour Hoffman playing Nurse Phil Parma and many other sensational actors. As Earl Partridge is dying, he makes an attempt to come to terms, find closure, speaks about his abandoning a dying wife, who would be cares for by his son, who has chosen the name Frank Mackey and does not want to talk to his loathsome father, up to the point where he is contacted by nurse Phil Parma. Meanwhile, Lind...

  Nouvelle Vague by Jean Luc Godard, Richard Linklater – I see this as one of the best films of 2025, indeed, since it was a 2025 Nominee for The Palme d'Or for Richard Linklater, this is certification that you have here one of the Top 10, furthermore it is also a 2026 Nominee for The Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy…by the way, you find more than five thousand notes on films from The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages, plus about the same amount of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html maybe you wish to subscribe     9 out of 10   Nouvelle Vague is mesmerizing and this comes as no surprise, I have also enjoyed so much Blue Moon https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/blue-moon-written-by-lorenz-hart-robert.html directed by the same fabulous Richard Linklater, I a...