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  Black Sunday by Thomas Harris is one of The 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, although it is ranked only 5375 th on the Greatest Books of All Time, the author has two other books that are acclaimed: Red Dragon, and the better known Silence of The Lambs – The Orange American Psycho keeps talking about the ‘great Hannibal Lecter’, but then he is so much off his rocker that this only confirms the diagnosis – you find thousands of notes on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and my well hidden YouTube channel   7 out of 10   Everyone knows about Silence of The Lambs https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/silence-of-lambs-based-on-novel-by.html even the American Orange Psycho who keeps talking about the ‘great Hannibal Lecter’, either because he has no idea who that is, or he fancies himself as another serial killer, and he likes those monsters   We d...

  The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell is the third book in the roman fleuve A Dance To The Music of All Time, which is included on The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, among the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, it is ranked 339 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site, and more importantly for this space, it is among my Top 20 – you find thousands of reviews -not necessarily crème de la crème – on magnum opera from the aforementioned and other lists on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, in case I am not on Goodreads anymore   10 out of 10   I have been thrilled by A Dance To The Music of Time https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-buyers-market-is-second-novel-in.html the first time I had the chance to read it, and now I am blessed again, The Acceptance World is the third volume, part of this repeated joy ride, seeing as I still have the Kingsley Amis oeuvre…   I am set for ...

  Stormy Monday written and directed by Mike Figgis is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made…with this, I have reached the 800 seen mark from this list, which is relative, in that there are some that I will not be able to find, others might not – or definitely – be of interest, so in this space, there may be just another one hundred posts on features from The NYT 1,000, nevertheless, you have thousands of notes on films from there and other sites on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and/or YouTube channel, if you are curious   7, maybe 6 out of 10   I was not exhilarated, indeed, I even wonder why Stormy Monday made it on The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made list, for it clearly will not be included on my own, not even if I manage to put together 5,000 titles…or well, maybe then, being left out of names, it has to do with a few elements to consider   Leaving Las Vegas htt...

  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...

  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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