Again immersing on French/Russian themes

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2 interesting new books; Keepers by Schickel & Gellman's The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961

Not on a library yet, but found at Vroman's;


http://www.amazon.com/Keepers-Greatest-Films---Favorites---Moviegoing/dp/0375424598/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1440118665&sr=8-1&keywords=schickel+keepers


Since I loved David Thomson's


http://www.amazon.com/Big-Screen-Story-Movies/dp/0374534136/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440118720&sr=1-5&keywords=david+thomson


Browsed a bit, and I liked it. He also doesn't regard Kubrick highly, so lol.


And another recent US history book;


http://www.amazon.com/President-Apprentice-Eisenhower-Nixon-1952-1961/dp/0300181051/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1440118793&sr=1-1&keywords=ike+and+nixon

2015] BBC Greatest 100 American films

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150720-the-100-greatest-american-films

Bolded the movies I haven't seen;

100. Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder, 1951)
99. 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
98. Heaven’s Gate (Michael Cimino, 1980)
97. Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939)
96. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008)
95. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)
94. 25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
93. Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
92. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955)
91. ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
90. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
89. In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray, 1950)
88. West Side Story (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
87. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
86. The Lion King (Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, 1994)
85. Night of the Living Dead (George A Romero, 1968)
84. Deliverance (John Boorman, 1972)
83. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)
82. Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981)
81. Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)
80. Meet Me in St Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)
79. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)
78. Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
77. Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939)
76. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
75. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
74. Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994)
73. Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
72. The Shanghai Gesture (Josef von Sternberg, 1941)
71. Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
70. The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953)
69. Koyaanisqatsi (Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
68. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)
67. Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936)
66. Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948)
65. The Right Stuff (Philip Kaufman, 1983)
64. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)
63. Love Streams (John Cassavetes, 1984)
62. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)
61. Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
60. Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
59. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975)
58. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
57. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen, 1989)
56. Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)
55. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
54. Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950)
53. Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, 1975)
52. The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
51. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
50. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
49. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
48. A Place in the Sun (George Stevens, 1951)
47. Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964)
46. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
45. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962)
44. Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1924)
43. Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)
42. Dr Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
41. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, 1959)
40. Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943)
39. The Birth of a Nation (DW Griffith, 1915)
38. Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
37. Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk, 1959)
36. Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977)
35. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)
34. The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939)
33. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
32. The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
31. A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)
30. Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959)
29. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)
28. Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
27. Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
26. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1978)
25. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
24. The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
23. Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977)
22. Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1924)
21. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
20. Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
19. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
18. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
17. The Gold Rush (Charlie Chaplin, 1925)
16. McCabe & Mrs Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
15. The Best Years of Our Lives (William Wyler, 1946)
14. Nashville (Robert Altman, 1975)
13. North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
12. Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974)
11. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942)
10. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
9. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
8. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
7. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)
6. Sunrise (FW Murnau, 1927)
5. The Searchers (John Ford, 1956)
4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
2. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
1. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)

Harvey Weinstein's motto

There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of mafia.

Kurt Vonnegut

From VF 2014 Mar. issue

Tom Cruise = Charlie Chaplin

Just watching Live.Die.Repeat, and Cruise looks just like a Charlie Chaplin character in his typical movie lol.

Just a thought.

Kristen Wiig

Watched these films of hers so far;

2013 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Cheryl Melhoff
2013 Hateship Loveship -  Johanna Parry

Liked both films.

Ronan seems a bit like

Sena, that legendary car racer. Face seems a bit similar..lol.

The movie American Sniper reminds me of

Clockwork Orange(1971) by Kubrick, which glorified violence.

Watch out for Logan Lerman

From IMDB

The Wife (pre-production) 

 2014Fury
Norman Ellison

 2014Noah
Ham

 2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Percy Jackson

 2012Stuck in Love
Louis

 2012The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie

 2012The Scribe (Short)
Jordan

 2011The Three Musketeers
D'Artagnan

 2010Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson

 2009Gamer
Simon

 2009My One and Only
George Devereaux

 2007Meet Bill
The Kid

 20073:10 to Yuma
William Evans

3 good movies on GM

The Damn United

Sheen always delivers. And another nice movie by Hooper.

Moneyball

Numbers don't lie.

Draft Day

GM is not an easy job! And character counts.
By the by, did Garner have an 'eye job'? Lol.

A promise(2013)

Was reading the synopsis of A promise, intending to borrow it: the storyline seemed eerily familiar.

But of course, it's Stefan Zweig! :)

Looking forward to it, starrs Rebecca Hall.

Philomena

Enjoying this(praise the library! So fast making recent? films available).

The Jane character looked familiar, and yes, she's the lead actress in the Bletchley circle!

And the scene in which the reporter confusing Jane Russell with Jayne Mansfield was a gem lol. British? humor abounds!

Otto Preminger

Was browsing the photos on the book,The World and Its Double: The Life and Work of Otto Preminger, and once again marvelled at his productivity.

August: Osage County & Hateship Loveship

Enjoyed those two movies.




Osage felt a bit like Lumet's masterpiece Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962). Streep was particulary delightful in the movie.


HL, nice subdued atmosphere, didn't seem to try too much on selling humor as well. Everybody was good imo, Pearce included.

Ulmer at LACMA

http://www.lacma.org/series/after-expressionism-versatile-edgar-g-ulmer

French Intifada

An exposé on current racism and anti semitism in France, an absorbing read.

http://www.amazon.com/French-Intifada-Between-France-Arabs-ebook/dp/B00F1R0RYQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406645142&sr=1-1&keywords=french+intifada

Was interested in French-Algerian relation after watching The Battle of Algiers(1966) ages ago, and glad that I grabbed it up at the library.

Did the movie Stargate(1914) get inspiration from

Churchill's advocation of bombing the 'rebellious' Imperial 'subjects' around 1920?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/?ref_=nv_sr_3


The scene in which the aliens bomb the rebellious tribes with their fighter airplane...isn't it the same?


A chilling thought..

Saving Mr. Banks

I almost didn't recognize Jason Schwartzman

in Saving Mr. Banks (2013) lol.

And..are all those episodes true? I heard she could be tiring but not THAT tiring lol. What a supreme revenge by Disney for all those hassles she created!

In the house(2012)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1964624/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Initially grabbed my attention because Emmanuelle Seigner  of The Ninth Gate starred in it- and Kirsten Scott Thomas starrs in a lot of French movies lol, like Love Crime - but it's actually quite hilarious, just watched about 15 minutes of it so far.

Red 2

You gotta adore Mary-Louise Parker in that role lol.