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  Miracle on 34 th Street by Valentine Davies is a great story, adapted for the big screen twice, the 1947 version is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time – if you are interested, you find notes on films from this NYT 1,000 and other sites, reviews on books from The GOAT and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   Santa Claus vs The Orange Grinch   9 out of 10   I see this as the clash between Santa Claus and The Orange Grinch, only the original Grinch changes and becomes generous, magnanimous, the one we see at work (as in destroying part of the White House, NATO and more) will not get better, we can only try to be optimistic - a rule of happiness from the magnificent:   The How of Happiness https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html by Sonja Lyubomirsky - ‘Happiness Activity No 2: Cultivating Optimism - you ca...

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  Two English Girls by Francois Truffaut is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have a few thousand notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other sites, along with other thousands of reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html you are welcome to subscribe     8 out of 10   This is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made that has delivered somewhat, there have been a few recently that annoyed, instead of enthuse, that was the case for Weekend by Jean Luc Godard, and https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/01/les-dimanches-de-ville-davray-aka.html Dimanches de Ville d’Avray, although the latter was not irritating, just not good enough for this fussy cinephile   I have listened to an audiobook Truffaut/Hitchcock in which the former interviews the latter, revealing what both th...

  The Known World by Edward P. Jones is a thrilling, marvelous novel, it must be high up on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and on other pages, as far as I can remember, it won The Pulitzer Prize, but I cannot check, I have no access to the internet, even if I do not live in Iran, where they have had a blackout, and it is much worse: a tyranny where they killed thousands of protesters this time, and they have been murdering them for many years – but, let me get back to The Known World, and say that for the second reading I was not so elated, maybe I will get into the details further down…however, I have a few thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All time and other lists, together with other thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other pages on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   ...

  A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolton Magnificent, stupendous- 10 out of 10 The film may be better known than the play and I however had the chance to enjoy the excellent screen version first. The movie had the script written by Robert Bolt and went on to win no less than six Academy Awards and had Orson Wells in the cast. This morning I have finished the play on which the acclaimed film was based and what a marvelous work it is!! It can serve as a lesson for anybody interested in learning about meaning, rectitude, bravery, power of conviction and much more. The hero is a very complex and strong man, determined to stand up for his beliefs, even if that means antagonizing the king. Thomas More is not really a rebel, on the contrary he respects the authority of the king and that makes the play even more thrilling. If he would be a nut case or a chevalier bent on fighting and dueling emphatically, refusing to accept the new order for the fun of it, it would have been a comedy or pe...

  The Thin Man written by Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich Dashiell Hammett was nominated for four Oscars in 1935: for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role for William Powell, Best Director for W.S. Van Dyke and Best Writing, Adaptation - Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett have adapted the original by Dashiell Hammett – this is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you have a few thousand notes on films from the NYT and other pages, along with other thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html I may not be on Goodreads for long, and then you find me there   8 out of 10   Something may be the matter with me   This is yet another film from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list that I am have failed to appreciate, though this is much better than a few features...