#Robert D. Siegel

[gameofthunder66]

CRUISE Official Trailer (2018) Emily Ratajkowski, Romance Movie HD

-watched 6/8/2023- 3 stars- on Tubi (free)

[rickchung]

Welcome to Chippendales (prod. Robert Siegel).

Hulu’s television adaptation of the surreal true crime story of the salacious origins behind the female-driven entertainment brand stars Kumail Nanjiani as Indian-American businessman and Chippendales founder Somen “Steve” Banerjee. There’s a lot of fun seeing the rise of male striptease culture in 1980s Los Angeles but the way the unsavoury criminal elements unfold leading to racketeering, arson, and murder in an episodic format never adequately highlights the real-life drama.

Nanjiani’s natural comic instincts are hampered by the frankly dour persona of the greedy Banerjee. Murray Bartlett shines in the role of charismatic choreographer Nick De Noia while surrounded by a talented supporting cast. Still, all the sordid ‘80s striptease business fun never entirely comes together with the more serious criminal elements.

[the-bi-library]

Bisexual books coming out in 2024!

Let me know of the books I didn't include!

Here is the goodreads list link. You can add books to this too!

Books listed:

Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf

Breaker of Fates by Vaela Denarr, Micah Iannandrea

Fake Dating a Witch: A Magical Summer Solstice Romance by Brigid Hunt

The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald

Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood

The 7-10 Split by Karmen Lee

Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris

Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach

Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar

The Afterdark by E. Latimer

Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong

The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J. Brown Don't Be a Drag by Skye Quinlan

Digging for Destiny by Jenna Jarvis

Exes & Foes by Amanda Woody

Under All the Lights by Maya Ameyaw

Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Lavash at First Sight by Taleen Voskuni

Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco

The Loudest Silence by Sydney Langford

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin

Mewing by Chloe Spencer

London On My Mind by Clara Alves, Nina Perrotta

What Is Love? by Jen Comfort

Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

Rise by Freya Finch

The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur

Honeybloods by I.S. Belle

The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe

Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva

Redsight by Meredith Mooring

Finally Fitz by Marisa Kanter

The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

Trouble by Lex Croucher

Playing For Keeps by Jennifer Dugan

Something To Be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke

[cinedeoromexicano1920]

𝐿𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑑𝑒 𝐸𝑠𝑝𝑎𝑛̃𝑎

Empezó en el canto y baile siendo niña, y a los doce años actuó por primera sobre un escenario formando parte de la Compañía de Estrellita Castro, en el espectáculo Rapsodia española. Después se incorporó a las Compañías del Príncipe Gitano y de Paco Reyes.

Su belleza la ayudó a trabajar en muchas películas folklóricas.

Hizo su debut en el cine en 1947 en la película Serenata española, dirigida por Juan de Orduña y tuvo su primer papel protagonista frente a Jorge Negrete en Jalisco canta en Sevilla, dirigida por el mexicano Fernando de Fuentes; participó después en Andalousie (Robert Vernay, 1951).

Protagoniza, entre otras, Cuentos de La Alhambra (1950), de Florián Rey, La hermana San Sulpicio (1952), de Luis Lucia, Violetas imperiales (1952) de Richard Pottier, trabaja en El deseo y el amor (Le désir el l'amour, H. Decoin, id.), La bella de Cádiz (La belle de Cadix, R. Bernard, 1953) y El amor de Don Juan (Don Juan, J. Berry, 1956).

El director español Juan Antonio Bardem le dio un papel en La venganza (1957) (primera película española candidata al Premio Óscar a la Mejor Película de habla no inglesa), después protagoniza Pan, amor y Andalucía (1958) de Javier Setó o El balcón de la luna (1962), junto a Lola Flores y Paquita Rico, pero su fama reconocida en su país natal donde fue la heroína de numerosos melodramas indigentes, además traspasó las fronteras con Aventura para dos (D. Siegel, 1958), Europa di notte (A. Blasetti, 1959), Rey de reyes (Nicholas Ray, 1961, en el papel de María Magdalena), Marco Antonio y Cleopatra (Chalton Heston, 1972 en el papel de Octavia).

𝙵𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚣 𝚌𝚞𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝟿𝟸!🎂

[brokenbeldam]

WANTED FACECLAIMS:

this is just a list of fcs that i not only like to use, but also like to write against. please note that this list isn't set in stone and i am happy to use anyone who might not be featured. this list will be updated regularly. i will always prioritise older fcs.

a-d:

aaron moten

aaron taylor-johnson

amber riley

amy adams

angela bassett

anthony mackie

anya chalotra

ashley graham

avan jogia

ben barnes

blake lively

bradley cooper

brie larson

brock o'hurn

bryce dallas howard

carla gugino

caterina scorsone

chanel iman

charles melton

chris evans

chris hemsworth

christina aguilera

daveed diggs

david harbour

dom benjamin

e-h:

e.r. fightmaster

elizabeth olsen

ella purnell

emilia clarke

emily blunt

florence pugh

gabrielle union

gemma chan

greta onieogou

henry cavill

henry golding

hilarie burton

hugh jackman

i-l:

idris elba

jacob artist

jamie campbell bower

jamie chung

jason momoa

jeffrey dean morgan

jesse williams

jessica capshaw

jessica chastain

john hamm

john krasinski

kassius nelson

kate beckinsale

kate siegel

kate walsh

kate winslet

keke palmer

kylie sonique love

lana parrilla

leigh-anne pinnock

lily james

loey lane

m-p:

maggie q

margot robbie

mark ruffalo

maya jama

melanie lynskey

michael b jordan

naomi scott

natalie portman

nico tortorella

nikki de jager

normani kordei

olivia munn

orlando bloom

oscar issac

patrick dempsey

paul rudd

penn badgley

pom klementieff

q-t:

rachel weisz

rahul kohli

ray fisher

robert downey jr

royce pierreson

ryan destiny

ryan reynolds

sandra oh

samantha logan

sara ramirez

sarah paulson

sebastian stan

shay mitchell

simone ashley

stephanie hsu

taika waititi

tati gabrielle

tessa thompson

tom ellis

tom hiddleston

u-z:

winona ryder

winston duke

zendaya coleman

[connors-chocolate-history-blog]

WORKS CITED:

Chocolate in the Underworld Space of Death: Cacao Seeds from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave (Keith M. Prufer and William Jeffrey Hurst) Chocolate: Cultivation and Culture in pre-Hispanic Mexico Author(s): Margarita de Orellana, Richard Moszka, Timothy Adès, Valentine Tibère, J.M. Hoppan, Philippe Nondedeo, Nezahualcóyotl, Nikita Harwich, Nisao Ogata, Quentin Pope, Fray Toribio de Benavente, Motolinía, Guadalupe M. Santamaría and Daniel Schechter Source: Artes de México, No. 103, CHOCOLATE: CULTIVO Y CULTURA DEL MÉXICO ANTIGUO (SEPTIEMBRE 2011), pp. 65-80 The Power of Chocolate Author(s): Blake Edgar Source: Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 6 (November/December 2010), pp. 20-25 Published by: Archaeological Institute of America Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics by MARCY NORTON CHOCOLATE II: Mysticism and Cultural Blends Author(s): Margarita de Orellana, Quentin Pope, Sonia Corcuera Mancera, José Luis Trueba Lara, Jana Schroeder, Laura Esquivel, Jill Derais, Mario Humberto Ruz, Clara Marín, Miguel León-Portilla, Michelle Suderman, Marta Turok, Mario M. Aliphat Fernández, Laura Caso Barrera, Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe and Pedro Pitarch Source: Artes de México, No. 105, CHOCOLATE II: Mística y Mestizaje (marzo 2012), pp. 73- 96 The Introduction of Chocolate into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640- 1730 Author(s): Kate Loveman Source: Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Fall 2013), pp. 27-46 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43306044 Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas Author(s): Robert J. Ferry Source: The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 609-635 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2514606 Accessed: 12-07-2019 16:34 UTC The Cacao Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Province of Caracas and the Spanish Cacao Market Author(s): Eugenio Pinero Source: The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 75-100 Published by: Duke University Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2516221 Accessed: 12-07-2019 17:03 UTC Establishing Cacao Plantation Culture in the Western World - Timothy Walker The Ghirardelli Story Author(s): Sidney Lawrence Source: California History, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2002), pp. 90-115 Published by: University of California Press in association with the California Historical Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25177676 The Evolution of Chocolate Manufacturing Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, and Laura Pallas Brindle The Emperors of Chocolate - Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner (Random House, 1998) Bitter Chocolate by Carol Off (The New Press, 2006) "Cocoa's child labrorers", Whoriskey, Peter; Siegel, Rachel, The Washington Post, June 10 2019 The Harkin-Engel Protocol (Chocolate Manufacturers' Association, 2001) "Role of Trade Cards in Marketing Chocolate during the Late 19th Century", Virginia Westbrook "Chocolate at the World's Fairs, 1851-1964", Nicholas Westbrook Edible Ideologies by Kathleen LeBesco (SUNY 2008) Cosmopolitan cocoa farmers: refashioning Africa in Divine Chocolate advertisements Author(s): Kristy Leissle Source: Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 2012), pp. 121-139 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42005280 Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan (Zed Books, 2011) Cocoa by Kristy Leissle (Polity, 2018) How Mars Inc., maker of M&Ms, vowed to make its chocolate green. And failed. Mufson, Steven . The Washington Post (Online) , Washington, D.C.: WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post. Oct 29, 2019.

[cinematic---monologue]

Great Neville Brand, lousy croc!

Eaten Alive USA, 1976, Tobe Hooper

D. T.: Blutrausch, IMDb: 5,5 - my score: 6

AKA: Starlight Slaughter, Death Trap, Crocodile, The Devil's Swamp, Slaughter Hotel, Brutes and Savages

English version below

Wenn es zwei Kerle gab, die den Hoodlum, den Mann fürs Grobe bestens darstellen konnten, waren es Jack Elam und Neville Brand. Was für fiese Hackfressen. Beide hab ich sehr ins Herz geschlossen und beide hatten wenige Hauptrollen. Bei Elam bin ich mir nicht sicher, ob er überhaupt einmal Leading Man war. Brand ist großartig in Don Siegels Riot in Cell Block 11 (1952) und auch in Eaten Alive liefert er. Deswegen ist es noch kein guter Film. Der Nachfolger des Texas Chainsaw Massaker handelt von Hillbilly Judd (Brand), der ein verwahrlostes Motel mit Krokodilteich als Attraktion betreibt. Nach und nach werden Gäste von ihm, gern mit einer Sense, ins Jenseits befördert und an ein lächerlich schlecht getrickstes Krokodil verfüttert. Bemerkenswert ist noch der junge Robert Englund, der den Film mit dem Satz "My name is Buck, I'm here for a fuck!" eröffnet und damit den Ton vorgibt. Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addans) gibt eine sehr amüsante Puffmutter ab und der wohl bekannteste Mime, Mel Ferrer, lernt viel zu schnell die Sense kennen.

Die ganze Story ist nur lose um die Gewaltszenen gebaut und macht im ganzen wenig Sinn. Man fragt sich 'What's the point?" Was den Film sehenswert macht, ist nicht das Was sondern das Wie. Hooper inszeniert alles im Studio, setzt künstliches, oft koplimentäres, Licht und unterlegt alles mit einem selbst komponierten Soundtrack - mehr Sound-Effekte als Musik. Dadurch erzielt er eine einzigartige Stimmung - mehr Arthouse Horror als slasher. Auch wenn jede Menge Blut fließt, gruselig ist das alles nicht.

Englisch Version

If there were two guys who could best play the hoodlum, the man for the rough stuff, it was Jack Elam and Neville Brand. What nasty hacks. I took them both very much to my heart and they both had few leading roles. With Elam, I'm not sure he was ever a leading man. Brand is great in Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11 (1952) and he also delivers in Eaten Alive. That's why it's not a good film yet. The sequel to Texas Chainsaw Massacre is about hillbilly Judd (Brand) who runs a run-down motel with a crocodile pond as an attraction. One by one, guests are killed by him, gladly with a scythe, and fed to a ridiculously badly tricked crocodile. Remarkable is the young Robert Englund, who opens the film with the sentence "My name is Buck, I'm here for a fuck!" and thus sets the tone. Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addans) makes a very amusing madam and the well known mime, Mel Ferrer, learns the scythe far too quickly.

The whole story is only loosely built around the violent scenes and makes little sense as a whole. One wonders 'What's the point?" What makes the film worth watching is not the what but the how. Hooper stages everything in the studio, sets artificial, often coplimentary, lighting and underpins everything with a soundtrack he composed himself - more sound effects than music. In this way he achieves a unique mood - more arthouse horror than slasher. Even though there is a lot of blood, it is not scary.

[awesomefridayca]

Podcast: 'The Book of Boba Fett' & 'Pam & Tommy'

Awesome Friday #Podcast: #TheBookOfBobaFett & #PamAndTommy

Greetings programs! This week on the Awesome Friday Podcast, we talk about two new series, both from Disney. First up is The Book of Boba Fett, which has aired five episodes and is struggling to figure out precisely what it wants to be. Next, Pam & Tommy, the upcoming miniseries starring Lily James, Sebastian Stan, and Seth Rogen, depicts a specific moment in 90s pop culture with staggering…

[jordyvix]

PAM & TOMMY Takes on the Infamous Sex Tape, Celebrity Culture and Exploitation

PAM & TOMMY Takes on the Infamous Sex Tape, Celebrity Culture and Exploitation

At the dawn of the internet in the late 1990s, a stolen VHS tape would become one of the biggest scandals in celebrity culture history. Pam & Tommy tells the story of the unauthorized release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s sex tape and all the wild details. Starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan, the eight-episode series dives into the Playboy icon and Mötley Crüe drummer’s whirlwind romance,…

[1day1movie]

Big Fan (2009) Robert D. Siegel.

[cinesludge]

Movie #44 of 2017: The Founder

[cinemafanatic]

"Contracts are like hearts, they are made to be broken."

The Founder (2016)

[weareonlyspiritswhotrytobealive]

Movies watched in February, 2022

FIRST VISIONS:

Twins (1988). Directed by Ivan Reitman

Rec 4 (2014). Directed by Jaume Balagueró

Easy Street (1917). Directed by Charlie Chaplin

The Gorilla (1939). Directed by Allan Dwan

Horrors of Spider Island (1960). Directed by Fritz Böttger

Spider Baby (1967). Directed by Jack Hill

Grandma's House (1988). Directed by Peter Rader

Dream Demon (1988). Directed by Harley Cokeliss

Goodfellas (1990). Directed by Martin Scorsese

Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004). Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Deux hommes dans la ville (aka: "Two Men in Town"), (1973). Directed by José Giovanni

The Deer Hunter (1978). Directed by Michael Cimino

Area 407 (2012). Directed by Dale Fabrigar & Everette Wallin

Dead in Tombstone (2013). Directed by Roel Reiné

Johnny Mnemonic (1995). Directed by Robert Longo

The Horde (2009). Directed by Yannick Dahan & Benjamin Rocher

Hannibal (2001). Directed by Ridley Scott

Hannibal Rising (2007). Directed by Peter Webber

Body Armour (2007). Directed by Gerry Lively

Vanishing on 7th Street (2010). Directed by Brad Anderson

Gangsters, Guns and Zombies (2012). Directed by Matt Mitchell

The Carillon (2018). Directed by John Real

Isolerad (aka: "Corridor"), (2010). Directed by Johan Lundborg & Johan Storm

Public Enemies (2009). Directed by Michael Mann

Shock (1977). Directed by Mario Bava

La bambola di Satana (aka: "The Doll of Satan"), (1969). Directed by Ferruccio Casapinta

I tre volti della paura (aka: "Black Sabbath" - "The Three Faces of Fear"), (1963). Directed by Mario Bava

Hostel (2005). Directed by Eli Roth

Hostel: Part II (2007). Directed by Eli Roth

Tenebrae (1982). Directed by Dario Argento

Una farfalla con le ali insanguinate (aka: "The Bloodstained Butterfly"), (1971). Directed by Duccio Tessari

Hostel: Part III (2011). Directed by Scott Spiegel

Strangers on a Train (1951). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

The Expendables (2010). Directed by Sylvester Stallone

Play Misty for Me (1971). Directed by Clint Eastwood

The Beguiled (1971). Directed by Don Siegel

The Way Back (2010). Directed by Peter Weir

Gemini Man (2019). Directed by Ang Lee

Fitzcarraldo (1982). Directed by Werner Herzog

Monster Man (2003). Directed by Michael Davis

Southbound (2015). Directed by R. Benjamin, M. Bettinelli-Olpin, etc.

Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021). Directed by Malcolm D. Lee

REWATCHED:

Moby Dick (1956). Directed by John Huston

The Blues Brothers (1980). Directed by John Landis

Kill Bill: Volume I (2003). Directed by Quentin Tarantino

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973). Directed by Norman Jewison

The Legend of Al, John & Jack (2002). Directed by A. Baglio, G. Poretti & G. Storti

Small Soldiers (1998). Directed by Joe Dante

Memento (2000). Directed by Christopher Nolan

Dead Silence (2007). Directed by James Wan

Mindhunters (2004). Directed by Renny Harlin

SHOWS:

Drag Race Italia (2021)

Biography: WWE Legends (2021)

TV SERIES:

CHiPs (1977 - 1983)

[beenovel]

My Fiction Books!

Key:

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🍄 - to be read

🌿 - personal favorite

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I did not include my kindle books, just physical ones

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling

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Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

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A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray

Ten Thousand Skies Above You - Claudia Gray

A Million Worlds With You - Claudia Gray

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The Selection - Kiera Cass

The Elite - Kiera Cass

The Heir - Kiera Cass

The Crown - Kiera Cass

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Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Warrior - Nnedi Okorafor 🍄

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Mortal Arts - Anna Lee Huber

A Study in Death - Anna Lee Huber

As Death Draws Near - Anna Lee Huber

A Brush With Death - Anna Lee Huber

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Magyk Angie Sage 🌿

Flyte - Angie Sage 🍄

Physik - Angie Sage 🍄

Queste - Angie Sage 🍄

Syren - Angie Sage 🍄

Darke - Angie Sage 🍄

Fyre - Angie Sage 🍄

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In Grandma’s Attic - Arleta Richardson 🌿

More Stories from Grandma’s Attic - Arleta Richardson

Still More Stories from Grandma’s Attic - Arleta Richardson

Treasures from Grandma - Arleta Richardson

Sixteen and Away From Home - Arleta Richardson

Eighteen and On Her Own - Arleta Richardson

Nineteen and Wedding Bells Ahead - Arleta Richardson

At Home In North Branch - Arleta Richardson

New Faces, New Friends - Arleta Richardson

Stories from the Growing Years - Arleta Richardson

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Seven Black Diamonds - Melissa Marr

One Blood Ruby - Melissa Marr

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Seraphina - Rachel Hartman 🍄

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Ogre Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine 🍄

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Bloodlust and Bonnets - Emily McGovern

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Wonder Woman, Warbringer - Leigh Bardugo

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Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo 🍄

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The Girl Who Drank the Moon - Kelly Barnhill

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The Tail of Emily Windsnap - Liz Kessler

Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun - Liz Kessler

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The Name Of This Book is Secret - Pseudonymous Bosch

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late - Pseudonymous Bosch

This Book Is Not Good For You - Pseudonymous Bosch

This Isn’t What It Looks Like - Pseudonymous Bosch

You Have To Stop This - Pseudonymous Bosch

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The Sisters Grimm - Michael Buckley

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Loki’s Wolves - K. L. Armstrong & Melissa Marr

Odin’s Ravens - K. L. Armstrong & Melissa Marr

Thor’s Serpents - K. L. Armstrong & Melissa Marr

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The Glass Spare - Lauren DeStefano 🌿

The Cursed Sea - Lauren DeStefano

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Legacy - Cayla Kluver

Sacrifice - Cayla Kluver

Allegiance - Cayla Kluver

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Assassin’s Heart - Sarah Ahiers

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The Daughter of the Pirate King - Lauren Levenseller

The Daughter of the Siren Queen - Lauren Levenseller

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Stalking Jack the Ripper - Kerri Maniscalco

Hunting Prince Dracula - Kerri Maniscalco 🍄

Escaping From Houdini - Kerri Maniscalco 🍄

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The Bone Witch - Rin Chupeco

The Heart Forger - Rin Chupeco

The Shadow Glass - Rin Chupeco

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Inkheart - Cornelia Funke 🌿

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The Wrath and the Dawn - Renée Adieh 🌿

The Rose and the Dagger - Renée Adieh

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Flame in the Mist - Renée Adieh

Smoke in the Sun - Renée Adieh

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My Lady Jane - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows

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My Plain Jane - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows 🍄

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Shadow Run - Adrianne Strickland & Michael Miller

Shadow Call - Adrianne Strickland & Michael Miller

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Grave Mercy - Robin LaFevers 🌿

Dark Triumph - Robin LaFevers

Mortal Heart - Robin LaFevers

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Westmark - Lloyd Alexander

The Kestral - Lloyd Alexander

The Beggar King - Lloyd Alexander

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The Frog Princess - E. D. Baker 🌿

Dragon’s Breath - E. D. Baker

Once Upon a Curse - E. D. Baker

No Place for Magic - E. D. Baker

The Frog Princess Returns - E. D. Baker

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The Wide-Awake Princess - E. D. Baker

Unlocking the Spell - E. D. Baker

Princess Between Worlds - E. D. Baker

The Princess and the Pearl - E. D. Baker

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Royals - Rachel Hawkins

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Twilight - Stephenie Meyer

New Moon - Stephenie Meyer

Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer

The short second life of Bree Tanner - Stephenie Meyer

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The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern 🌿

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Since You’ve Been Gone - Morgan Matson 🌿

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Save the Date - Morgan Matson

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The Case of the Missing Moonstone - Jordan Stratford

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The Ten Thousand Doors of January - Alix E. Harrow 🍄

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ACID - Emma Pass

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Labrinth Lost - Zoraida Córdova 🍄

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Battle Mage - Peter A. Flannery 🍄

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Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

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Midnight in Austenland - Shannon Hale

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Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie 🌿

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And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie 🌿

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The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen 🌿

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Garden Spells - Sarah Addison Allen 🍄

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The Peach Keeper - Sarah Addison Allen 🍄

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Lost Lake - Sarah Addison Allen 🍄

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A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness 🌿

Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness

The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness

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Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan 🍄

Rise of Empire - Michael J. Sullivan 🍄

Heir of Novron - Michael J. Sullivan 🍄

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Alpha Centauri - Robert Siegel

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Rebel of the Sands - Alwyn Hamilton 🌿

Traitor to the Trone - Alwyn Hamilton 🍄

Hero at the Fall - Alwyn Hamilton 🍄

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Starflight - Melissa Landers

Starfall - Melissa Landers

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Polgara the Sorceress - David & Leigh Eddings 🌿

Guardian of the West - David Eddings 🍄

Sorceress of Darshiva - David Eddings 🍄

The Seeress of Kell - David Eddings 🍄

Demon Lord of Karanda - David Eddings 🍄

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The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi 🍄

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The Star-Touched Queen - Roshani Chokshi 🍄

A Crown of Wishes - Roshani Chokshi 🍄

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The Love That Split the World - Emily Henry

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The Forbidden Wish - Jessica Khoury

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Tales of the Kingdom - David and Karen Mains

Tales of the Resistance - David and Karen Mains

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Just Another Sweetheart Deal - Pat Brady

Rose Is Rose - Pat Brady

High-Spirited Rose Is Rose - Pat Brady

Rose Is Rose Right On the Lips - Pat Brady

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Baby Island - Carol Ryrie Brink 🌿

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King of the Dollhouse - Patricia Clapp 🌿

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson 🍄

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Photo Finish - Ngaio Marsh 🌿

Died in the Wool - Ngaio Marsh 🍄

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The Humans - Matt Haig 🌿

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[booksofrobertgreene]

Is there anyone besides Robert Greene you have great respect for? Why?

I’ve a lot of respect for a number of people who are no longer with us.

Prince, Bowie, Terry Pratchett, D C Fontana, Ursula K LeGuin, Sally Ride, Robin Williams. Leonardo daVinci, Hedy Lamarr, Shakuntala Devi, Erno Rubik, Denis Gabor, Alan Turing (I’d love to bring him forwards with me to spare him his death in 1952), Benoit Mandelbrot, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Mary Seacole, Siegel & Schuster, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Carlos Ezquerra. N Robin Crossby. Sir Christopher Lee.

The ones who are (as of 2021) still alive, I’d include Sir Patrick Stewart; Sir Ian McKellen; Sophia Myles; the entire cast of Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard; Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill and Sacha Dhawan; journalist Rachael Swindon; online magazine editor Dave Middleton; publishers The Design Mechanism, Ken Wickham, Fishwife Games, and Rebellion; Tom Dalgliesh of Columbia Games; and whoever is behind the “Led By Donkeys” campaign.

There are plenty of others. These are just off the top of my head.

Also my Mum and Dad, my agent, the rest of the cast and crew, and *sheds tears while hoisting my Oscar aloft* all my wonderful fans ...

[miguelmarias]

TOP 2020

25/12/2020

 A)    Great movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Buoyancy(Freedom;Rodd Rathjen, 2019)

Les choses qu’on dit, les choses qu’on fait(Emmanuel Mouret, 2020)

L’Île au trésor(Guillaume Brac, 2018)

Le Sel des larmes(Philippe Garrel, 2019/20)

Ghawre Bairey Aaj(Home and the World;Aparna Sen, 2019)

Undine(Christian Petzold, 2020)

Happī awā(Happy Hour;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2015)

Netemo Sametemo(Asako I & II;Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, 2018)

Adolescentes(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2013-9/20)

Family Romance, LLC.(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Demain et tous les autres jours(Noémie Lvovsky, 2017)

Gamak Ghar(Achal Mishra, 2019)

Lunana:A Yak in the Classroom(Pawo Choyning Dorji, 2019)

Semina il vento(Sow the Wind;Danilo Caputo, 2020)

Objector(Molly Stuart, 2019)

La France contre les robots(Jean-Marie Straub, 2020)

Paris Calligrammes(Ulrike Ottinger, 2019/20)

Un film dramatique(Éric Baudelaire, 2019)

 B)    Great movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Là-Haut, un Roi au-dessus des nuages(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 2003)

Pangarap ng Puso(Demons/Whispers of the Demon/Hope of the Heart;Mario O’Hara, 2000)

Les Films rêvés(Eric Pauwels, 2009)

La vida en rojo(Andrés Linares, 2007/8)

Come Next Spring(R.G. Springsteen, 1955/6)

Song of Surrender(Mitchell Leisen, 1948/9)

Adventure in Manhattan(Edward Ludwig, 1936)

Strannaia zhenshchina(A Strange Woman;Iuli Raízman, 1978)

Chastnaia zhízn(Private Life;Iuli Raízman, 1982)

Málva(Vladimir Braun, 1956/7)

Zhila-byla devochka(Once There Was a Girl;Viktor Eisimont, 1944)

The Unknown Man(Richard Thorpe, 1951)

Aisai Monogatari(Story of a Beloved Wife;Shindō Kaneto, 1951)

Practically Yours(Mitchell Leisen, 1944)

A Summer Storm(Robert Wise, 1999/2000)

Lettre d’un cinéaste à sa fille(Eric Pauwels, 2000)

Sombra verde(Untouched;Roberto Gavaldón, 1954)

Fantasma d’amore(Dino Risi, 1981)

Adieu, Mascotte(Das Modell vom Montparnasse;Wilhelm Thiele, 1929)

Mori no kajiya(The Blacksmith of the Forest;Shimizu Hiroshi, 1928/9;fragment)

Zwischen Gestern und Morgen(Between Yesterday and Tomorrow;Harald Braun, 1947)

Last Holiday(Henry Cass, 1950)

Dialogue d’ombres(Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 1954-2013)

Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man(Jonas Mekas, 2012)

Nice Time(Claude Goretta & Alain Tanner, 1957)

Aloma of the South Seas(Alfred Santell, 1941)

A Feather in Her Hat(Alfred Santell, 1935)

La Danseuse Orchidée(Léonce Perret, 1928)

Underground(Vincent Sherman, 1941)

Time Out(in Twilight Zone-The Movie)(John Landis, 1983)

Lackawanna Blues(George C. Wolfe, 2005)

Janie(Michael Curtiz, 1944)

Dernier Amour(Léonce Perret, 2016)

Jeunes Filles en détresse(Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1939)

Kisapmata(Blink of an Eye;Mike De Leon, 1981)

La Dernière Lettre(Frederick Wiseman, 2002)

The Lady of the Dig-Out(W.S. Van Dyke II, 1918)

Their Own Desire(E.Mason Hopper, 1929)

 C)    Very good movies made since 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Zumiriki(Oskar Alegria, 2019)

Atlantique(Mati Diop, 2019)

J’accuse(An Officier and A Spy;Roman Polanski, 2019)

Richard Jewell(Clint Eastwood, 2019)

Alice et le Maire(Nicolas Pariser, 2019)

Contes de Juillet(July Tales;Guillaume Brac, 2017)

Dark Waters(Todd Haynes, 2019)

Ofrenda a la tormenta(Fernando González Molina, 2020)

Nomad:In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin(Werner Herzog, 2019)

Into the Inferno(Werner Herzog, 2016)

The Zookeeper’s Wife(Niki Caro, 2017)

Journal de septembre(Eric Pauwels, 2019)

La Deuxième Nuit(Eric Pauwels, 2016)

Kaze no denwa(Voices in the Wind;Suwa Nobuhiro, 2019/20)

Da 5 Bloods(Spike Lee, 2020)

Izaokas(Isaac;Jurgis Matulevičius, 2019)

A Metamorfose dos Pássaros(Catarina Vasconcelos, 2020)

Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari(To the Ends of the Earth;Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2019)

La Nuit d’avant(Pablo García Canga, 2019)

My Mexican Bretzel(Nuria Giménez, 2018-9)

Domangchin yeoja(The Woman Who Ran;Hong Sang-soo, 2019/20)

Öndög(Wang Quanan, 2019)

Hatsukoi(First Love;Miike Takashi, 1959)

Million raz pogivaet odin Cheloviek(One man dies a million times;Jessica Oreck, 2018/9)

The Two Popes(Fernando Meirelles, 2019)

Félicité(Alain Gomis, 2016/7)

Salt and Fire(Werner Herzog, 2016)

Ni de lian(Your Face;Tsai Ming-liang, 2018)

Qi qiu(Balloon;Pema Tseden, 2019)

River Silence(Rogério Soares, 2019)

Charlie’s Angels(Elizabeth Banks, 2019)

La boda de Rosa(Iciar Bollain, 2020)

Guerra(War;José Oliveira & Marta Ramos, 2020)

My Thoughts Are Silent/Moyi dumky tykhi(Antonio Lukich, 2019)

Namo(The Alien;Nader Saeivar;co-script-Jafar Panahi, 2020)

Los silencios(The Silences;Beatriz Seigner, 2018)

Terminal Sud(Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, 2019)

Tu mérites un amour(You Deserve a Lover;Hafsia Herzi, 2019)

Les Misérables(Ladj Ly, 2019)

Padre no hay más que uno(Santiago Segura, 2019)

Honeyland(Tamara Kotovska & Ljubomir Stefanov, 2019)

Izbrisana(Erased;Miha Mazzini & Dusan Joksimovic, 2018)

This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection(Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019)

Primero Enero(Darío Mascambroni, 2016)

Lahi, Hayop(Pan, Genus/Genus Pan;Lav Diaz, 2020)

 D)    Very good movies made before 2015 seen for the first time in 2020: 

Topaze(Marcel Pagnol, 1936)

The SIGN OF THE RAM(John Sturges, 1947/8)

Abandoned(Joseph M. Newman, 1949)

Bewitched(Arch Oboler, 1944/5)

La Femme du Bout du Monde((Jean Epstein, 1937)

The Outcast(William Witney, 1954)

Saadia(Albert Lewin, 1953)

Un monde sans femmes(Guillaume Brac, 2011)

Dishonored Lady(Robert Stevenson, 1947)

Always Goodbye(Signey Lanfield, 1938)

A Blueprint for Murder(Andrew L. Stone, 1953)

Bedevilled(Mitchell Leisen, 1955)

That Forsyte Woman(Compton Bennett, 1949)

The Miracle(Irving Rapper, 1959)

The Madonna’s Secret(Wilhelm Thiele, 1946)

The Town That Dreaded Sundown(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Grayeagle(Charles B. Pierce, 1977)

Barricade(Peter Godfrey, 1949/50)

Tomorrow is Forever(Irving Pichel, 1945/6)

David Harum(James Cruze, 1934)

The Vanquished(Edward Ludwig, 1953)

Keisatsukan(Uchida Tomu, 1933)

...Enfants des courants d’air(Édouard Luntz, 1959, short)

The Winds of Autumn(Charles B. Pierce, 1976)

Suddenly It’s Spring(Mitchell Leisen, 1946)

Uchūjin Tōkyō ni arawaru(Warning from Space;Shima Kōji, 1956)

Swiss Family Robinson(Edward Ludwig, 1940)

Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern(Wilhelm Dieterle, 1930)

Faithless(Harry Beaumont, 1932)

Botan-dorō(Peony Lanterns;Yamamoto Satsuo, 1968)

Ginza 24 chou(Tales of Ginza;Kawashima Yūzō, 1955)

Goodbye Again(Michael Curtiz, 1933)

Lines of White on a Sullen Sea(D.W. Griffith, 1909)

You Gotta Stay Happy(H.C. Potter, 1948)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Riff-Raff(Ted Tetzlaff, 1947)

The Moon is Down(Irving Pichel, 1943)

The Bride Wore Boots(Irving Pichel, 1946)

Adventures in Silverado(Phil Karlson, 1948)

The Stolen Ranch(William Wyler, 1926)

Congo Maisie(H.C. Potter, 1940)

Marcides(Mercedes;Yousry Nasrallah, 1993)

Hell’s Five Hours(Jack L. Copeland, 1958)

Daniel(in Stimulantia;Ingmar Bergman, 1967)

Diên Biên Phú(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1992)

Canyon River(Cattle King;Harmon Jones, 1956)

Dos Basuras(Kurt Land, 1958)

Smart Girls Don’t Talk(Richard L. Bare, 1948)

The Big Shakedown(John Francis Dillon, 1933/4)

Corvette K-225(Richard Rosson;p.,collab.Howard Hawks, 1943)

The Gay Deception(William Wyler, 1935)

The Invisible Woman(A.Edward Sutherland, 1940)

Rage in Heaven(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Robert B. Sinclair,Richard Thorpe, 1941)

Wild Side(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2004)

I bambini e noi(Luigi Comencini, 1970//7)

The House Across The Street(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

The Doughgirls(James V. Kern, 1944)

The Love Trap(William Wyler, 1929)

Torch Song(Charles Walters, 1953)

The Meanest Man in the World(Sidney Lanfield, 1942/3)

Cole Younger, Gunfighter(R.G. Springsteen, 1958)

Ballerine(Gustav Machatý, 1936)

Via Mala(Josef von Báky, 1945//8)

Sky Giant(Lew Landers, 1938)

Les Invisibles(Sébastien Lifshitz, 2012)

Promène toi donc tout nu(Emmanuel Mouret, 1998)

A Story for the Modlins(Una historia para los Modlin;Sergio Oksman, 2012)

Something in the Wind(Irving Pichel, 1947)

Spoveď(Confession;Pavol Skýkova, 1968)

Guilty Hands(W.S. Van Dyke II;collab.Lionel Barrymore, 1931)

Atto di accusa(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1950)

Suspense(Frank Tuttle, 1956)

This Is The Night(Frank Tuttle, 1932)

Escape in the Fog(Oscar ‘Budd’ Boetticher,Jr., 1945)

The Price of Fear(Abner Biberman, 1956)

Happy People:A Year in the Taiga(Werner Herzog, 2010)

Urok(The Lesson;Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov, 2014)

Le Naufragé(Guillaume Brac, 2009)

Lili Marlen(Peter Mihálik;script.Dušan Hanák, 1970;short)

Deseo(Antonio Zavala Kugler, 2013)

  E)     Great movies that improved by new watchings: 

Shanghai Express(Josef von Sternberg, 1932)

The Best Years of Our Lives(William Wyler, 1946)

Till We Meet Again(Frank Borzage, 1944)

Man’s Favorite Sport?(Howard Hawks, 1963/4)

Along The Great Divide(Raoul Walsh, 1951)

Hondo(John V. Farrow, 1953)

Where The Sidewalk Ends(Otto Preminger, 1950)

Mrs. Miniver(William Wyler, 1942)

Driftwood(Allan Dwan, 1947)

‘Good-bye, My Lady’(William A. Wellman, 1956)

Touch of Evil(Preview version, 1975;not later ‘improvements’)(Orson Welles, 1958)

Le Crabe-Tambour(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1977)

Unfinished Business(Gregory LaCava, 1941)

Madigan(Don Siegel, 1968)

Big Business(James Wesley Horne;s.Leo McCarey, 1929)

Putting Pants on Philip(Clyde A. Bruckman;s.Leo McCarey, 1927)

The Runner Stumbles(Stanley Kramer, 1979)

Yushima no Shiraume(Romance at Yushima;Kinugasa Teinosukē, 1955)

David Harum(Allan Dwan, 1915)

The Virginian(Cecil B. DeMille, 1914)

Island in the Sky(William A. Wellman, 1953)

All About Eve(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)

L’Eclisse(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

The Roaring Twenties(Raoul Walsh, 1939)

The Plainsman(Cecil B. DeMille, 1936)

JLG/JLG-Autoportrait de décembre(Jean-Luc Godard, 1994)

‘Je vous salue, Marie’(Hail Mary;Jean-Luc Godard, 1984)

La Roue(Abel Gance, 1923)

They All Laughed(Peter Bogdanovich, 1981)

Innocent Blood(John Landis, 1992)

An American Werewolf in London(John Landis, 1981)

The Thing Called Love(Peter Bogdanovich, 1993)

Into the Night(John Landis, 1985)

The File On Thelma Jordon(Thelma Jordon;Robert Siodmak, 1949)

The Little American(Cecil B. DeMille, 1917)

In Our Time(Vincent Sherman, 1944)

The Hunters(Dick Powell, 1958)

Phase IV(Saul Bass, 1974)

L’Honneur d’un Capitaine(Pierre Schoendoerffer, 1982)

Backfire(Vincent Sherman, 1948//50)

Five(Arch Oboler, 1951)

Somewhere in the Night(Joseph L. Mankiewiz, 1946)

A Man Alone(Ray Milland, 1955)

Die Geiger von Florez(Paul Czinner, 1926)

Living on Velvet(Frank Borzage, 1934/5)

La Recta provincia(Raúl Ruiz, 2007//15)

La Noche de enfrente(Raúl Ruiz, 2012)

Carrie(Sister Carrie;William Wyler, 1951/2)

The Spiral Staircase(Robert Siodmak, 1945/6)

The Paradine Case(Alfred Hitchcock, 1947)

L’Amore(Una voce umana+Il Miracolo)(Roberto Rossellini, 1947/8)

The Heiress(William Wyler, 1949)

 F)     Very good movies watched again 

Bluebeard’s 10 Honeymoons(W.Lee Wilder, 1960)

The Five Pennies(Melville Shavelson, 1958)

Take a Letter, Darling(Mitchell Leisen, 1942)

Escape(Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1948)

Appassionatamente(Giacomo Gentilomo, 1954)

Así como habían sido(Trío)(Andrés Linares, 1986/7)

San Antone(Joseph Kane, 1953)

The High and the Mighty(William A. Wellman, 1954)

Taki no Shiraito(The Water Magician;Mizoguchi Kenji, 1933)

The Web(Michael Gordon, 1947)

The Buccaneer(Anthony Quinn;s.Cecil B. DeMille, 1958)

The Buccaneer(Cecil B. DeMille, 1938)

Desire Me(uncredited:George Cukor/Jack Conway/Mervyn LeRoy/Victor Saville, 1946)

Flaxy Martin(Richard L. Bare, 1948/9)

Swing High, Swing Low(Mitchell Leien, 1937)

Death Takes A Holiday(Mitchell Leisen, 1934)

Irene(Herbert Wilcox, 1940)

Beloved Enemy(H.C. Potter, 1936)

The Cowboy and the Lady(H.C. Potter, 1938)

Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam(Paul Wegener, 1920)

Mia madre(Nanni Moretti, 2015)

Hell On Frisco Bay(Frank Tuttle, 1955)

Stormy Weather(Andrew L. Stone, 1943)

The Milky Way(Leo McCarey;w.Harold Lloyd, 1936)

Pietà per chi cade(Mario Costa, 1954)

Repeat Performance(Alfred L. Werker, 1947)

Das indische Grabmal:1.Die Sendung des Yoghi,2.Der Tiger von Eschnapur(Joe May, 1921)

Julie(Andrew L. Stone, 1956)

The Member of the Wedding(Fred Zinnemann, 1953)

Winterset(Alfred Santell, 1936)

The Right to Romance(Alfred Santell, 1933)

As Young as You Feel(Harmon Jones, 1951)

You’ll Never Get Rich(Sidney Lanfield, 1941)

The Woman Accused(Paul Sloane, 1933)

Foma Gordeiev(Mark Donskoí, 1959)

The Parent Trap(David Swift, 1961)

High Wall(Curtis Bernhardt, 1947)

Mr. Lucky(H.C. Potter, 1943)

Un Marido de Ida y Vuelta(Luis Lucia, 1957)

The Safecracker(Ray Milland, 1957/8)

She’s Funny That Way(Peter Bogdanovich, 2014)

Oh...Rosalinda!!(Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1955)

Caribbean(Edward Ludwig, 1952)

Harper(The Moving Target;Jack Smight, 1966)

For You I Die(John Reinhardt, 1947)

Crashing Hollywood(Lew Landers, 1937/8)

Le Souvenir d’un avenir(Chris. Marker & Yannick Bellon, 2001)

Susan Slept Here(Frank Tashlin, 1954)

Bishkanyar Deshot(In the Land of Poison Women;Manju Borah, 2019)

Pollyanna(David Swift, 1960)

A Tale of Two Cities(Jack Conway;collab.Val Lewton & Jacques Tourneur, 1935)

Café Society(Woody Allen, 2016)

Shadow on the Wall(Patrick Jackson, 1949/50)

Tonnerre(Guillaume Brac, 2013)

Le Jouet criminel(Adolfo G. Arrieta, 1969)

‘Once more, with feeling!’(Stanley Donen, 1959)

The Shopworn Angel(H.C. Potter, 1938)

The Absent Minded Professor(Robert Stevenson, 1961)

Gavaznha(The Deer;Masud Kimiai, 1974)