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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...

  Weekend written by Julio Cortazar and Jean Luc Godard, and directed by the latter is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it would not make my Top 10,000 list, if I were to create one: it is bizarre, clearly not my cup of tea and I will try to put down a few lines explaining why, which would not matter, nevertheless, I am even inviting to check a few of my thousands of notes on films from the aforementioned NYT 1,000 and other pages, there are too many reviews on magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other sites on this blog and YouTube channel of mine here https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html let me know if you enjoyed the trip     6 out of 10   What a crazy motion picture!   At least from my point of view: they kill animals for this feature, it was no special effects mirage here, they take this pig, hit him on the head, and then plunge the knife into his heart, as...

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  Wild, based on the memoir by Cheryl Strayed 8.3 out of 10 Reese Witherspoon – nominated for an Academy Award for her performance – offers the audience a tour de force in this Wild motion picture, where the main character takes almost everything to the extremes, when she uses drugs it is with fervor and abandon, while she has a period of frequent sex – conservatives would call that fornication – it is again intense and finally, when she decides to take a hike, she accomplishes the impossible and travels alone for…one thousand one hundred miles! The story is told with flashbacks, in various tense moments, when the temperature drops to well below zero, she throws away perhaps her most valuable belongings, the walking boots, the protagonist thinks mostly of her deceased mother, Bobbi aka Laura Dern, also nominated for an Oscar for her remarkable acting, the abuse she has suffered from a violent father, that they had had to run away from, one night, in a pouring rain that looked like ...

  Star Trek II – The Wrath of Khan written by Gene Roddenberry, Jack B. Sowards and Harve Bennett is one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, although it does not make my own 1,000 favorites, indeed, it made me wonder what is so special about this motion picture, and there is worse, but more details in the lines bellow – you   find a few thousand notes on films from The NYT 1,000 and other pages, plus more 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     6 out of 10   Alas, I have seen Star Trek The Wrath of Khan and Weekend by Jean Luc Goddard in the past few days and I am quite disillusioned, to the point where I am nearly asking what the fuck is wrong with this NYT list of the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made – yes, "De gustibus non disputandum est" but still, these are bad for this cinephile...

  The Wheel of Love and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates was a finalist for the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was called "Quite simply, one of the finest collections of short stories ever written by an American” – you find a few thousand reviews of magnum opera from The Greatest Books of All Time and other lists, plus other thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog and YouTube channel https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html     9 out of 10   Black Water https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/black-water-by-carol-oates-this-book.html by Joyce Carol Oates is an enchanting read, seeing that, I would have started Blonde, which is ranked 723 rd on The GOAT site for masterpieces, but it is extremely long, I think it has more than one thousand pages…   In The Region of Ice is the fist in this collection - one of the others is at 6843 on t...