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  Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html 10 out of 10     Since it is more than likely that this note will venture into the breaking news of the day, let me introduce a spoiler alert from the beginning, saying that if you looked for an opinion here, it is this – this film is stupendous, memorable and will give you an idea about what will happen next, only it will be on a much bigger scale, and you have yet more of my take at  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html  and now let me continue   I was thinking of Munich as Hamas has attacked Israel yesterday (October 8, 2023) and they are surely fighting right now, Bibi aka Benjamin Netanyahu has said that they are ‘at war’ – we get an idea about Bibi as a young man by reading The Netanyahus  http:...

  A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, where the author has another two novels: An Ice Cream War and Any Woman Heart, but it is ranked only 5887 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   When I have read A Good Man in Africa https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-good-man-in-africa-by-william-boyd-10.html I was enthused, but after the second encounter I am not as ecstatic, indeed, I agree with Kingsley Amis to some extent, and the latter has surely influenced my impression this time   I thought the novel might be a bit long, though there is a lot happening, Morgan Leafy, First Secretary at the British Commission in Nkongsamba, state capital of the Mid-Western region, Kinjanja, West Africa, gets into a ...

  A Buyer's Market is the second novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-novel series A Dance to the Music of Time, which is one of The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels, it is ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time, you also find it among The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, and last but not least, actually, more importantly for this corner, it is one of my Best 50 Novels, although if I count them, they will become the Top 200- you find reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, in case you want to visit   10 out of 10   I am reading A Dance to The Music of Time again https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-buyers-market-by-anthony-powell-10.html and this will be a joy ride, just like the first time- especially given the new ‘strategy’, I will try and keep them together, for some years back, I thought of ‘delayed gratific...

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  The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, based on the novel by John Boyne 9 out of 10 This motion picture is an example of how different we can view art, books, films, for while some critics have been exultant, others have been just as moved, but at the other end of the scale...'an appalling, jaw dropping movie that will cause serious nightmares' Entertainment Weekly They probably know better,but this cinephile disagrees. This may not be Schindler's List, but it is a compelling, well acted, professionally directed feature that will stay in memory for a long time, if not forever. It deals with the holocaust and takes a look from a different angle, building up to a cataclysmic finale. Asa Butterfiled is wonderful, precocious in the leading role of Bruno, son of the Nazi commandant of a German concentration camp. Although, in the first place, as they move with the fascist official to the new position he has, the family has no idea of his assignment. It is a well keep secret, up to t...

  Harry Potter and The Philosopher Stone by J.K. Rowling is ranked 236 th on The Greatest Books of All time site, it is clearly an immense success, along with all the other parts of the franchise – only this one has more than 11.5 million ratings on Goodreads, except that for the purposes of this space (which belongs to me, more or less) Harry Potter One, and the rest of them, although I may take the trouble to put in a few lines for the rest of them as well, is a waste of time, even if I have to admit I can speak (in a way) only about the adaptations, which I saw when my daughter, Hannah, was a child and this was ‘a thing’, I wonder if she liked it – this should be ‘the whole review’, even if there is some more down there – you also find thousands of notes on books from The GOAT and other sites, and on films from The NYT 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   6 out of 10   I have here a...