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Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, which I just found that the author declined, it is ranked 1630th on The Greatest Books of All Time – you find many reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT and other sites, along with notes on films on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html I will be pleased if you visit and ecstatic if you subscribe

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  Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize, which I just found that the author declined, it is ranked 1630 th on The Greatest Books of All Time – you find many reviews on magnum opera from The GOAT and other sites, along with notes on films on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html I will be pleased if you visit and ecstatic if you subscribe   9 out of 10   The Hero compared with the Orange Villain   Most often, when I read or see a movie these days I think about the protagonist, the ideals, moral in the book or film in contrast with what I see in the world today – now I have in the background the show Washington Week with The Atlantic, I listened to it on every Saturday and they comment on what happened in the past seven days   While Arrowsmith is a hero, we have now a model that is the Mobster – modelled on the Orange Fool from the White House, no longer the build...
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Through a Glass Darkly written and directed by Ingmar Bergman was the 1962 Winner of The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Nominee for the Oscar for The Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find many notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other lists, plus reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT site and others on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  Through a Glass Darkly written and directed by Ingmar Bergman was the 1962 Winner of The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the Nominee for the Oscar for The Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen and it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find many notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other lists, plus reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT site and others on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     10 out of 10   I have already seen Through a Glass Darkly and wrote this note on it https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/through-glass-darkly-written-and.html given that this is one of the best motion pictures, and the auteur is also one of the greatest film makers, his work deserves A Closer Look   Nonetheless, we must say that Ingmar Bergman was not a wonderful man: he supported the Nazi, while he was a Swede, wh...
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Note on Bicycle Thieves

  One of the Best Movies Ever Made, Ladri di Biciclette aka Bicycle Thieves | realini
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Violator by Depeche Mode – this is the band that I loved most, indeed, I still do, though I missed their last concert in this realm, maybe I will get to the next one https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html 10 out of 10 A one liner would be alright here, after all, the most popular reviews on Goodreads are just a few words long So, my ‘review’ should be: - I love Violator! As in the Depeche Mode album, especially World in My Eyes, Sweetest Perfection, Personal Jesus, Waiting for the Night, Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth and Clean…” Words like violence break the silence Come crashing in, into my little world /Painful to me, pierce right through me/Can't you understand? Oh, my little girl” We were young in 1990, after the 1989 Revolution http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html that ended the Ceausescu regime, and in which I took part, I am proud of that Once free, we used to go to this discotheque near the Military Academy where Depeche Mode was the favorite band, we even had a special dance move, used whenever Personal Jesus or one of their other hits was in the air; also, at that time we took ‘referee language’, used the signs they make on the football (soccer) field The referee has yellow and red cards, shows the misbehaving players the locker rooms when they are out of competition, eliminated, there are specific signs for the end of the game and we kept inserting those in the ‘choreography’, it was so much fun to show the door to your friends, if all in jest, and without consequences… I also remember getting an audio tape from one of my clients, a young woman, who liked Depeche Mode- this was at the time when Ceausescu was still the (living) dictator – someone like the orange Baboon in the White House, well, former White House, for he is destroying it) and we had no access to…actually almost anything Then, I rented a studio downtown, on Victory Avenue, as a coincidence or an allegory of the full circle of life, I go daily to a place which is just fifty meters away, the gym, or spa, as my spouse calls it (what do you do all the time? Nothing, you just go to the spa) and back in 1990, the landowner lived just next door We would listen to Depeche Mode and he would come at the door to do his funny number, my cousin was great with impersonations, maybe he still is, he lives in Argentina now – actually, as a ship’s captain, he is supposed to sail around the world – so I have only seen him once in the last thirty years or so, a long time since the Depeche Mode period Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works ‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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  Violator by Depeche Mode – this is the band that I loved most, indeed, I still do, though I missed their last concert in this realm, maybe I will get to the next one https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     10 out of 10 A one liner would be alright here, after all, the most popular reviews on Goodreads are just a few words long   So, my ‘review’ should be:   -           I love Violator!   As in the Depeche Mode album, especially World in My Eyes, Sweetest Perfection, Personal Jesus, Waiting for the Night, Enjoy the Silence, Policy of Truth and Clean…” Words like violence break the silence Come crashing in, into my little world /Painful to me, pierce right through me/Can't you understand? Oh, my little girl” We were young in 1990, after the 1989 Revolution http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html that ended the Ceaus...
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10 written and directed by Blake Edwards, with Dudley Moore, Julie Edwards and Bo Derek is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it does not make my equivalent list – for many notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other pages, reviews on magnum opera, you may wish to check my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and/or the YouTube channel

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  10 written and directed by Blake Edwards, with Dudley Moore, Julie Edwards and Bo Derek is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it does not make my equivalent list – for many notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other pages, reviews on magnum opera, you may wish to check my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and/or the YouTube channel     7 out of 10   This is not all that bad!   Nevertheless, to have it among the Best Ever, even if we are talking about one thousand features, I would replace 10 with Blood Moon https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/12/blue-moon-written-by-lorenz-hart-robert.html in a jiffy, indeed, this comedy has no place among my favorites, it is banned, never to be watched again   On the other hand, you have a wonderful thespian – Julie Andrews – in the movie and she is a pleasure to watch, she cannot enthuse as she did in The Sound of Music ...
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Note on Un Chien Andalou

  Note on Un Chien Andalou, director Luis Bunuel, writers Salvador Dali an... | realini
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Note on Exterminating Angel

  Note on The Exterminating Angel by Luis Bunuel | realini
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