Sunday Bloody Sunday written by Penelope Gilliatt, John Schlesinger, and directed by the latter had four major Academy Nominations in 1972, for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Peter Finch, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Glenda Jackson, Best Director for John Schlesinger and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced for Penelope Gilliatt, this is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made…you find a multitude of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other pages, plus reviews on books from the GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html see there soon, I hope

 

Sunday Bloody Sunday written by Penelope Gilliatt, John Schlesinger, and directed by the latter had four major Academy Nominations in 1972, for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Peter Finch, Best Actress in a Leading Role for Glenda Jackson, Best Director for John Schlesinger and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced for Penelope Gilliatt, this is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made…you find a multitude of notes on films from the NYT 1,000 and other pages, plus reviews on books from the GOAT and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html see there soon, I hope

 

8 out of 10

 

John Schlesinger is the ‘auteur’ of one of the best films ever made – if we take the notion of director as auteur seriously, and apart from Sunday Bloody Sunday – Midnight Cowboy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/midnight-cowboy.html a film that shocked in 1970 for its audacity

 

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman were wonderful in Midnight Cowboy, alas, I reject Voigt for his support of the Orange Caligula, funny how conservatives were outraged because the Oscar for Best Picture, Director went to a movie that had a homosexual at the center (Hoffman), Schlesinger was gay, and we have this side in Sunday Bloody Sunday

Let me start with the good things, Peter Finch is remarkable, he was nominated for the Oscar for his performance as Daniel Hirsh, a gay Jewish doctor – the director was Jewish and homosexual, we could assume he identifies with his main character – and he won the top prize for his outstanding Howard Beale in The Network

 

The Network https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-network-written-by-paddy-chayefsky.html is another masterpiece, and Peter Finch has a fantastic presence as a mad prophet of the mass media, I understand the thespian was a well-known womanizer and heavy drinker, perhaps as much as Peter O’Toole say

Alas, we have an actor that I di not like, Glenda Jackson, she is Alex Greville in Sunday Bloody Sunday, mother of, I don’t know, four, maybe five children, she has a dog (who is killed by a truck, it could have been one of her daughters) and a…monkey, which seems crazy, how can you juggle with all these in the same house?

 

I have two macaws and they are often more than we can handle, anyway, she has this lover, she is divorced, Bob Elkin, who is shared between the woman and…the doctor, which is ‘sophisticated’, maybe even Avangard for 1971, when the movie was presented in cinemas…admittedly, Alex has sex with another man

Only this seems to be a ‘one night stand’, though it takes place at daytime (I think, I am not sure, now that I brought this to my attention) and Bob comes while the other man is in bed with Alex, they all talk – a naughty idea penetrates my puritanical character, no I am not, closer to being a pervert, than a moralist

 

They could have thought of a threesome, seeing as they were so open minded – this is a character strength according to Martin Seligman https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/flourish-by-martin-seligman.html - what with sharing this bisexual partner, this could be for another motion picture, coming to a theater near you

 

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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