Ataraxia

  Mad Max, written and directed by George Miller 8 out of 10 Mad Max is a legendary motion picture, included on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list: https://www.listchallenges.com/new-york-times-best-1000-movies-ever-made/list/13 now that we have the more recent Mad Max Fury Road, it is interesting to compare, to see how far the sequel has reached, what the differences are, if any. Although 40 years old, the original Mad Max is still impressive in its use of stunts and the technology of the time. For instance, there is an outstanding scene wherein Mad Max aka the iconic, if controversial over the past years, due to his rants when drunk and stopped by the police, Mel Gibson, is chasing a motorcyclist. The latter ends up facing a truck, which is coming from the opposite direction and the crash is credible, making the viewers think about what they used, a plastic body, how on earth have they managed to pull it off? Max is a police patrolman that has to see horrors on ...

  Dark Knight written by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan and David Goyer, directed by the former is The Top Rated Movie Number Three, it won two Academy Awards, including the 2009 Oscar for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role for Heath Ledger, it was a awarded posthumously…you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists waiting on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   9 out of 10   Christopher Nolan https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/oppenheimer-based-on-book-by-kai-bird.html might be the most important film maker of the moment, and one of the greatest of all time, which reminds me of this quote about Elizabeth Taylor, the magnificent writer, not the better-known actress:   ‘Triumphant narrative skill, a wonderful eye and unfailing humor, though not of the 'robust' nor of the ‘savage' variety, often delightfully ca...

  Pulp Fiction written and directed by Quentin Tarantino was the 1994 Winner of The Palmes d’Or, in my book, the most prestigious cinematic award, it also won the 1995 Oscar for Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, it is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, and it is ranked 9 th among The Top Rated Movies; you have thousands of notes on films from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html   10 out of 10   Quentin Tarantino https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/05/reservoir-dogs-by-quentin-tarantino-is.html is one of the best filmmakers of all time, he has two of the Top 20 Best Films, in my personal file, maybe it would be Top 50, if I think of more favorites, he made history with them, I am not a great fan of the other oeuvres though   We can find the story of the making of those classics, how Harvey Keitel helped with...

  Good Business, Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, one of the founders of Positive Psychology 10 out of 10 -           This is a brilliant masterpiece! Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of the geniuses of our time. He is considered to be one of the fathers of Positive Psychology. The other parent is Martin Seligman, but the two are not involved in a same sex marriage, unless we consider the Bill Maher joke: -           All marriages are same sex -           Every night it is the same sex all over again…or words to that effect…I hope The author of Flow, a classic of Positive Psychology, talks about the conditions that bring Flow to work: 1.        “Goals are clear 2.        Feedback is immediate 3.        A balance between oppor...

  The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver the was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1999, it is placed on the 865 th spot on The Greatest books of All Time site, and what is crucial for this space, it is already one of my Top 200 Favorite Oeuvres, and I have only read a quarter of it, the plan is too have a few notes on it – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the GOAT and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   10 out of 10   Another Barbara, Barbara Fredrickson https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/positivity-by-barbara-fredrickson-life.html has written a psychology classic, Positivity, and you find there the ingredients of, well, Positivity: awe, interest, hope, inspiration, pride, serenity, joy, gratitude, love and…amusement, which is what The Poisonwood Bible is about   This was my own attempt at a feeble, failed joke...

  Wag the Dog written by Larry Beinhart, David Mamet, a motion picture that seems to have changed, it is now on the news, what with the ‘special operation’, the name given by the tyrant in the Kremlin to his war in Ukraine, or the war in Iran, which was won on day one, according to another lunatic, the self-proclaimed ‘greatest president of the US’; you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/08/do-you-have-any-suggestions-how-to-make.html and YouTube channel   8 out of 10   Glengarry Glen Ross https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/glengarry-glen-ross-by-david-mamet.html by David Mamet has won The Pulitzer Prize and it has been adapted for the big screen, that is one of the best films I know, with Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, the latter, in fact all are superb   Alec Baldwin is Blake, and he has been sen...