Ataraxia

  On The Town by Betty Comden and Adolph Green was the Winner of The Oscar for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, nevertheless, it does not make it on my Top 500, or even Top 5,000 for that matter…you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   I do not see why this motion picture made it on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, but then I am not a fan of musicals – one aspect intrigues me, the name of one of the writers, and this reminds me of https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/how-about-adolf-based-on-play-by.html How About Adolf?   This is a film I enjoyed, and there are perhaps more than two more versions, an Italian and a Romanian one, I think, the subject is both comical and rather gruesome: a baby has to have a name and the question ...

  Public Enemy by Kubec Glasmon and John Bright is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and it was the 1931 Nominee Oscar for Best Writing, Original Story, and it was voted by the American Film Institute as the 8th greatest crime film in American film history, that notwithstanding, it is not one of my favorites: quite good, but not shattering – you have thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   If we compare The Public Enemy with The Godfather https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-godfather-ii-by-mario-puzo-this.html then the former seems like a mediocre feature, except we should lower our expectations, a good rule, which worked recently with Jurassic Park, I started it without an ecstatic feeling, and it is so good   James Cagney has the leading role of Tom Powers, The Public Enemy, and he was a great ...

  Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, yet it is ranked only 1529 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, the reading public was thrilled, it has nearly 1.1 million ratings on Goodreads – I had not been expecting it, but this rather long read has captured almost all my attention…there are thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my small dinosaurs are present   9 out of 10   I have seen the motion picture based on this book and liked it, except that made me except a different scenario, and I had taken the novel with somewhat low expectations, probably in large part due to The Lost World https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/note-on-lost-world.html an annoying feature, if you ask me   As far as I can remember – perhaps not much – Jurassic Park the movie has a gradua...

  The Inheritor by Eduardo De Filippo is an amusing, if not overwhelming play, notwithstanding that, George Constantin has the leading role in it, and ergo we have here a spectacular performance – he was the greatest thespian, at least in my book…you find thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws ‘walk in beauty’   9 out of 10   George Constantin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/peer-gynt-by-henrik-ibsen-calling.html makes all the difference here, and in any play, motion picture we could see him, he is The Inheritor, otherwise a quite amusing, but not outstanding work, with some messages, in the age of the charlatans, The Orange Caligula   Ludovico Ribera is also called Prospero at some point, and he is the protagonist, who comes to claim his ‘Inheritance’, in a rather pec...

Trapnel based on Julian I loved Of love and hunger link ‘Christ, what a marvellous idea. You mean I’d call at their place and hand back the pound?’   He pondered this extravagant – literally extravagant – possibility. comment. The lights were on all over the flat, the sound of running water audible. No one seemed to be about. Widmerpool listened, his head slightly to one side, with the air of a Red Indian brave seeking, on the tail of the wind, the well-known, but elusive, scent of danger. The splashing away of the water had a calming effect. ‘As a matter of fact the message was – ”I’ve left” Of course Tolstoy’s inordinately brilliant. In spite of all the sentimentality and moralizing, he’s never boring – at least never in one sense. The material’s inconceivably well arranged as a rule, the dialogue’s never less than convincing. The fact remains, Anna Karenin’s a glorified magazine story, a magazine story of the highest genius, but still a magazine story in that it te...

  The Private Life of Henry VIII written by Lajos Biro, Arthur Wimperis was nominated in 1934 for The Oscar for Best Picture, and it won The Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charles Laughton as Henry VIII; it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant   8 out of 10   Let me use a sound bite: I see Henry VIII as a sort of predecessor of The Orange ‘Abrascam’ (as Jimmy Kimmel called him) except in this motion picture, Henry VIII was amusing, although keeping things in proportion this modern day Caligula has not killed wives, just divorced two (maybe more in the future) even if he is responsible for many deaths   The other king that comes to mind is Richard III https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/richard-iii-by...