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  La Ceremonie written by Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff, based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, directed by the former was nominated for important prizes, and won in Venice, The Volpi Cup for Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert, the latter has also won the Cesar, which is the French Oscar, the motion picture is also on The New York Times Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list…you find thousands of notes on films from this and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   I have been elated by Judgement in Stone https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-judgement-in-stone-by-ruth-rendell-is.html the novel by Ruth Rendell on which La Ceremonie is based, perhaps I have been too exuberant, exhilarated, for the motion picture was not so enchanting this time, when I saw it first, it was mesmerizing   It is tempting to use the line from The History of The World as rendered by Mel Brooks, wher...

  88 out of 100 for Inception | realini

  Inception -The Shooting Script by Christopher Nolan, who has enchanted us recently with Oppenheimer http://realini.blogspot.com/2023/08/oppenheimer-by-christopher-nolan.html and other gems 9 out of 10     Christopher Nolan is the man of the day for the Screen Trade – there is a classic called Adventures in The Screen Trade http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/02/adventures-in-screen-trade-by-william.html by William Goldman, that will explain this phenomenon and so much more, it is a scripture for the thespian arts   He has recently bewitched audiences with his Oppenheimer – but before I plunge into a different subject, and abandon altogether, or for the most part Inception, let me say that the latter is fascinating, bewildering, dazzling, but often incomprehensible for yours truly, so, with that out of the way, this would be a disclaimer, spoiler alert, warning, you name it, thus maybe there is no complaint or retaliation Christopher Nolan is the favorite to win at t...

  83 out of 100 for Tootsie | realini

  Comedii la Portile Orientului by Andrei Plesu – in my view, Andrei Plesu is the absolute Magister Ludi, one of the greatest luminaries of all time   10 out of 10   I have taken a look at Comedii la Portile Orientului https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-look-at-comedii-la-portile-orientului.html some years ago, and now that we can access this on YouTube, or at least parts of it, why not repeat the exhilaration, exuberance, this is not just a philosopher, but a comedian as well   The luminary has been an acclaimed public figure for decades, although I would not be surprised to ask a young person and find they do not know about him, the other day, I have asked a teenager about Funar, a far-right mayor of Cluj, despite the fact that the adolescent was from that city, she did not know about this mad man That notwithstanding, there is a major difference, that mayor was an idiot, a precursor of the Orange Fool   https://realinibarzoi.blogspo...

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 552 nd on The Greatest Books of All Time site, only there is an incompatibility between this acclaimed oeuvre and this reader, it is not one of my Top 1,000 Favorites – you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where you can see my macaws   7 out of 10   Counterintuitively, I have preferred a short story https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-mesmeric-mountain-by-stephen-crane.html by Stephen Crane to what appears to be a magnum opus, at least if we listen to…well, anybody except the undersigned, and even I have to admit that this is all relative, subjective   But before I continue speculating, a spoiler alert will warn any venturesome person that all I had to say about The Red Badge of Courage is alre...