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Three Colors – Red written and directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski was nominated for three Oscars in 1995, including for Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, it was also nominated for The Palme d’Or, BAFTAs and other prizes, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other sites, plus other thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, if you prefer this medium

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  Three Colors – Red written and directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski was nominated for three Oscars in 1995, including for Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, it was also nominated for The Palme d’Or, BAFTAs and other prizes, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies of All Time – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other sites, plus other thousands of reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, if you prefer this medium   8 out of 10   Krzysztof Kieslowski is celebrated as one of the greatest film makers of all time, his Dekalog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/dekalog-episode-8-by-krzysztof.html is included on The TIME 100 Best Movies list, and his trilogy has also made it into the most prestigious compilations, though I do not know about m...
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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn has won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Molière Award for Best New Play in 1999, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2000, the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Foreign Play in 2000, but the main reason for listening to it was that I admire the author – you find thousands of reviews of plays, magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my YouTube channel

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  Copenhagen by Michael Frayn has won the Tony Award for Best Play, the Molière Award for Best New Play in 1999, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2000, the New York Drama Critics' Circle for Best Foreign Play in 2000, but the main reason for listening to it was that I admire the author – you find thousands of reviews of plays, magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my YouTube channel   8 out of 10   I have read four works by Michael Frayn https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/towards-end-of-morning-by-michael-frayn.html , well, two were motion pictures actually, and three novels but Towards the End of The Morning and Headlong were so exhilarating that I plan to read at least the former again, soon   There are three characters in this play, and one of them is Werner Heisenberg, who went to Copenhagen to study quantum mechani...
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Note on Duck Soup

 My take on Duck Soup is at  Note on Duck Soup, with The Marx Brothers | realini
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A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers

  A Night at the Opera with the Marx Brothers A different version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at: -               https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E   and    http://realini.blogspot.ro/ One of the best comedies ever, advertised in the tag line as the best comedy ever Some of the scenes from this hilarious film have stuck in my mind. I have seen this comedy many years ago and saw it again yesterday. It was still entertaining to see many people in one room...how many was it, thirty?: Waiters, engineers, maids, I can't think who was missing. And Groucho Marx, as the leader of the team formed with his brothers has a fabulous sense of humor. Some of it is just repeating obsessively some words. At the start, he introduces Mrs. Claypool to Mr. Gotlieb. And he keeps saying: -          ...
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of the most important books of the moment, As of March 28, 2026, the book has been featured on the New York Times' best-seller list for 41 weeks in total…furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen is celebrated as the biggest success of the year, it has made about (or more than) 150 million at the box office in the US, and another few hundreds of million in the world, though the least is more of a guess, I forgot the figures for outside America, it has also entered the Greatest Books of All Time list, at 6915th for now – you have thousands of reviews on 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 you see my macaws

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  Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir is one of the most important books of the moment, As of March 28, 2026, the book has been featured on the New York Times' best-seller list for 41 weeks in total…furthermore, the adaptation for the big screen is celebrated as the biggest success of the year, it has made about (or more than) 150 million at the box office in the US, and another few hundreds of million in the world, though the least is more of a guess, I forgot the figures for outside America, it has also entered the Greatest Books of All Time list, at 6915 th for now – you have thousands of reviews on 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 you see my macaws   8 out of 10   Project Hail Mary has reminded me of 2001 – A Space Odyssey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/2001-space-odyssey-by-arthur-c-clarke.html a classic of Science Fiction – by ...
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Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html 10 out of 10

  Munich, screenplay by Tony Kushner, Eric Roth and George Jonas, directed by Steven Spielberg, another look at this is here  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html 10 out of 10     Since it is more than likely that this note will venture into the breaking news of the day, let me introduce a spoiler alert from the beginning, saying that if you looked for an opinion here, it is this – this film is stupendous, memorable and will give you an idea about what will happen next, only it will be on a much bigger scale, and you have yet more of my take at  http://notesaboutfilms.blogspot.com/2017/09/note-on-munchen-director-steven.html  and now let me continue   I was thinking of Munich as Hamas has attacked Israel yesterday (October 8, 2023) and they are surely fighting right now, Bibi aka Benjamin Netanyahu has said that they are ‘at war’ – we get an idea about Bibi as a young man by reading The Netanyahus  http:...
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A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, where the author has another two novels: An Ice Cream War and Any Woman Heart, but it is ranked only 5887th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html

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  A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd is included on the list of 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, where the author has another two novels: An Ice Cream War and Any Woman Heart, but it is ranked only 5887 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site – you find thousands of reviews on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   When I have read A Good Man in Africa https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-good-man-in-africa-by-william-boyd-10.html I was enthused, but after the second encounter I am not as ecstatic, indeed, I agree with Kingsley Amis to some extent, and the latter has surely influenced my impression this time   I thought the novel might be a bit long, though there is a lot happening, Morgan Leafy, First Secretary at the British Commission in Nkongsamba, state capital of the Mid-Western region, Kinjanja, West Africa, gets into a ...
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