Ataraxia

  Liar Liar written by Paul Guay and Stephen Mazur is an entertaining comedy, if not one of the best, I am more interested here in how the free world has the ultimate Liar Liar at the top now, so you have been warned – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   7 out of 10   Jim Carrey https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-truman-show-by-andrew-niccol-my.html is one of the greatest thespians, and although he is best known for his comedy roles, he has been outstanding in The Truman Show (again, one of the best motion pictures), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind   He is Liar Liar here, Fletcher Reede, a lawyer who wants to become partner in the firm, and more generally, he is ambitious to the point where nothing else seems to matter, he neglect his son, the spouse will get a divorce and mayb...

  Marie Antoinette, written and directed by Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette was nominated for the most relevant cinema award at the 2006 Festival, the coveted:                  The Palme D’Or For this film buff, this nomination means that Marie Antoinette was one of the best motion pictures of 2005. However, the production was controversial, even if it won an Academy Award in the technical arena. It has to be admitted that there are two ways to look at this movie and indeed, at anything else:                 “ There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so ” – Hamlet On the one hand, the interpretation of the magnificent Sofia Coppola is rather phantasmagoric, postmodern maybe. It is an astonishing contrast between Marie Antoinette and The Beguiled, the latter launched in 2017. Sofia Coppola has won the Cannes Festiva...

  The Seven Year Itch written by George Axelrod and Billy Wilder, directed by the latter is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, and one of the best comedies of all time – you find thousands of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube Channel, where my macaws radiate   10 out of 10   Some Like It Hot https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/some-like-it-hot-written-by-billy.html was acclaimed as the Best Comedy Ever by a number of critics, and Billy Wilder has worked with Marylin Monroe on this one too, just like they did on The Seven Year Itch -this is the year when Monroe is celebrated   Tom Ewell has the leading role of Richard Sherman, the man who feels The Seven Year Itch, when his wife and son leave town, New York, for the summer holydays near some lake – the son is supposed to have a paddle and canoe, or something el...

  The Searchers by Alan LeMay and Frank Nugent is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – you find thousands of notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are resplendent   9 out of 10   John Wayne https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/02/red-river-written-by-borden-chase-and.html was one of the great actors, I should say greatest, except I am not such a great fan, I can see he was so talented, he was – what for ten years in a row? – America’s favorite, they called him Duke and he was an icon   Nevertheless, he was right wing, we could not be sure what his views would be today, but I fear he might have sympathized with MAGA, during the persecutions started by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s, John Wayne was quite aggressive towards the accused, mind you, I hate communism, I had to endure it for about twent...

  Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, although albeit it is ranked only 2388 th on The Greatest Books of All Time site…I have enjoyed it, only I am not sure how much, by the end of this note, maybe I will have a better idea – you find reviews of magnum opera from The GOAT and other web pages on my blog   https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html   8 out of 10   I have read three novels by Anne Tyler https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-accidental-tourist-by-anne-tyler.html and this is the second time that I read Breathing Lessons, Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1989, the year of the Revolution in which I took part, when Ceausescu was deposed   I know I enjoyed it so much the first time, although I am not sure why I did not post a review on it, after all, I suffer from hypergraphia on the one hand, on the other, I have some impressive results on Goodreads...

  Pressure by David Haig is not overwhelming, but I have enjoyed most of it – you have thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other web sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, where my macaws are radiant   7 out of 10   Brandon Fraser https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-note-on-gods-and-monsters.html is a very good actor, and his handling of the role of General Dwight Ike Eisenhower is excellent, although Jack Nicholson, or Geroge Constatin would have added panache, irony, and much more to this emblematic persona   Pressure describes events taking place during World War II, just before (and for some scenes during and after) D Day, the celebrated, magnificent landing of the Allied troops in France, a crucial operation for the fate of the war, which was depicted in some other fantastic motion pictures, such as The Longest Day, wh...