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

 

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 I had to shudder through recently, incidentally, this is probably all I had to say about The Thin Man, ergo, you could, maybe should leave this page…

Perhaps without flagging it – somebody did it to me, either because I veered off topic – and why not, we have a thing called stream of consciousness, or I expressed my view of MAGA and their disgusting orange monkey, and that is anathema for the members of that cult, I get hate messages at the sauna downtown because of that

 

Les Dimanches de Ville d’Avray is one motion picture I watched the other day, and it did not impress me https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/01/les-dimanches-de-ville-davray-aka.html only Weekend, by Jean Luc Godard really did the trick, it turned me off to the point where I will be skeptical with other NYT selections

Well, there is Mr. and Mrs. Bridge which I am watching today, started it last night, and this is ‘classic, remarkable’, with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in the leading roles, outstanding thespians, I have learned recently that Paul Newman was Jewish, so was Kirk Doglas, and Tony Curtis, I admire them so much

 

Weekend by Jean Luc Godard has a long outré scene in which the leading lady speaks for long minutes about bizarre sex: I mean, menage a trois is alright, alluring even, but then one of the women is placed in the…plate with the cat’s milk, and the other is made to perform cunnilingus, with the milk and all, while the man is also in action…

Ok, but is this to be included in a mainstream, ‘one of the best pictures? I wonder, and then this is just the lame part, we have a pig hit in the head, and then killed with a knife, on screen, and as if that is not enough, they then take a goose (maybe it was a duck) and cut its throat so that the audience can have a look at the spasms

 

Dashiell Hammett https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/11/from-all-time-100-novels-list-red.html was one of the greatest writers of mystery novels, and The Thin Man is not bad, evidently, in fact, mea culpa is required- this is just my take on the feature, the fact that I was no thrilled only means I did not get it

I am like that ridiculous emperor from History of The World https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/history-of-world-by-mel-brooks.html by Mel Brooks who looks at the immense fortune brought to him and says ‘nice, not thrilling, but nice’, because he is such a silly, spoiled brat, like that would be Orange Caesar, disgusting moron

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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