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[olivrsm]

[deke-rivers-1957]

Harum Scarum Review

The second Gene Nelson and Sam Katzman picture starring Elvis Presley. Inspired by Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik and filmed on the original Cecile B. DeMille's set of The King of Kings, Elvis had hope of finally getting a movie that allowed him to be more of an action hero. Given that Peter O'Toole's 1962 film, Lawrence of Arabia was a massive success for Columbia Pictures, MGM likely wanted to capitalize on that success by using a guaranteed money maker in Elvis.

Unfortunately, the hype Elvis had regarding the possibility of being a Rudolph Valentino figure was quickly squashed. He received the script and realized that his character wouldn't live up to the expectations he originally had. It's a pretty known story that even the Colonel thought the script was so weird, he thought it should include a talking camel. This of course is in reference to the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope movie, Road to Morocco. Ironically enough, the reference I make to Zanzibar in my announcement post was another movie that the duo made. With Kissin Cousins being described as the begin of Elvis' decline, this movie is typically described as being Elvis' rock bottom. Is it really as bad as people say, or is it over hated due to outdated elements? Let's find out.

"Harem Holiday" while it sounds great, is very confusing in the context of this movie. Why is this movie called Harum Scarum when it's called Harem Holiday elsewhere and even has a song with that name? I get that it's a term meaning someone acting reckless and without care, but it doesn't relate to the movie at all. Both titles completely gloss over the very important detail of how Johnny ended up in the position he will end up in.

We immediately open to a movie within a movie as Johnny Tyrone stars in an Arabian film where he saves a woman by killing a jaguar with his bare hands. He even sings to her "My Desert Serenade" while he has the weirdest sideburns I have ever seen. And then the movie just ends to a roaring applause in front of what's an unusually white crowd.

Apparently this is being screened in front of Arabian dignitaries as a diplomacy mission by the US State Department. Why is this specific actor's movie being chosen for this mission when just by what we're shown, would be the equivalent of going into the Soviet Union and screen a movie of Elvis fighting a polar bear in Siberia? Only 2 minutes in and I already have a lot of questions on why this is the set up. He sings "Go East Young Man" and again why is this the song that you're choosing to perform in front of dignitaries you're supposed to schmooze? Again it'd be the equivalent of going into the Soviet Union and singing a song about drinking vodka with Josef Stalin. It's just so stereotypical that if this was a real diplomatic mission, it would be an absolute disaster. Dignitaries that you're trying to establish a relationship with, wouldn't see this as honoring their culture. If anything, what this movie should be about, is Johnny being kidnapped because they found his performance insulting.

Johnny Tyrone in this picture above summarizes Elvis' acting throughout the entire movie. Sir, you are meeting actual royalty and this is how you act? I can understand wanting to make a good impression but for goodness sake crack a smile. Or at the very least show humility by bowing before the prince. For someone who's supposed to be an actor/stuntman that was given a golden opportunity to act as a diplomat of American culture on this mission, Johnny looks like if it wasn't for Aishah, he literally couldn't care less to be there. Even when the prince invites Johnny to the king's palace (making him the first American to ever do so) Johnny looks bored out of his skull.

After traveling with the prince to Lunarkand, Johnny stops at a camp. Johnny goes to flirt with Aishah and we get a Red West appearance as on of the attackers. I know Star Trek didn't come out yet, but what is up with these costumes? These men look like an alien race trying to disguise themselves as human. Also this is the worst depiction of drugging someone I have ever seen. It's obvious that Aishah drugged his drink, but what drug could possibly work that fast? Whatever plot they want to commit would be executed a lot faster if they simply used a little too much of the Brand X drug if it's truly that effective. Drinking something is the slowest method you could possibly use to drug someone. It doesn't go directly to the brain like inhaling a substance.

The prince is obviously behind this and any twist that comes from it, is gone. My reason why it's so obvious: the prince would be completely incompetent if he traveled without any type of security for himself. So the fact that these men were able to enter his camp with absolutely no resistance indicates that this was planned to happen. If this was truly just a plot by Aishah, he would've been a victim as well to get the King's attention or attempt to implicate Johnny for the crime so Lunarkand would go to war agains the US. But that didn't happen. The prince is conveniently resting in his tent while Johnny is kidnapped.

I have never laughed so hard at an Elvis movie as I did when Johnny starts singing "Mirage". You have Johnny who was just kidnapped waking up in a strange place and what does he do? He literally starts singing to the slave women thinking this is just a dream. How in the world are we supposed to take anything that happens in this movie seriously? Johnny is being held captive in a Middle Eastern country and nobody will even know about it until after a week when Johnny doesn't return from his vacation. But no we need to have a gag about how Johnny's horny for slave women.

Even when he's facing Sinan, the leader of assassins who wants him to kill the King of Lunarkand, he still doesn't seem to care. All he does is make a snarky remark about how stupid it is to believe he can actually kill a jaguar with his barehands. Even if it was actually true, that just makes him all the more boring. Why should I care about Johnny Tyrone, if he's shown to be physically invincible and doesn't even seem all that scared about the amount of danger he's in? That isn't relatable. It's especially worse when you get the racist stereotype that poor Arabians are thieves in the form of Zacha offering to help Johnny escape for 10,000 American dollars. He explains how this country is so isolated that there's airport. How would Zacha even know what an airport was if Lunarkand's been isolated for 2000 years? And how does he speak fluent English if Johnny's the first American to even be on palace grounds? I just don't get how this world is set up.

Johnny escapes and runs into Princess Shalimar who for literally no reason says she's a slave girl. This would absolutely never happen and if anything makes me even more suspicious of the prince. Shalimar is a princess so she should have guards everywhere. Johnny would've been immediately captured just by being near her. Shalimar wasn't there during Johnny's movie screening so she has no reason to believe that he isn't going to be a danger to her. Johnny being hot isn't enough of a reason to trust him.

It also makes Johnny's plight even more frustrating to watch. For someone who's supposed to be on the run he sure takes his sweet time escaping. He doesn't take his safety seriously as he stops by the lake and sings "Kismet" to a woman he literally just met. It's a good song but it the movie literally stops when Johnny is supposed to be running away. When he tells Shalimar about Sinan and she runs away, it becomes all the more dumb that he wasted that much time. The guards are right on their heels and only get lucky in their escape.

So Johnny decides to follow Zacha until they find some dancing girls in Bar Esalaam that are part of Zacha's Den of Thieves. The stereotypes don't get better as you have an element out of the 1920s in the form a little person playing the mute fool named Baba. We've seen Billy Barty before in Roustabout and it's nice to have him do more than just one gag. I just wish they could've treated Baba as a real person, given how progressive it was to even have little people (especially since Billy Barty was the founder of the non-profit organization, Little People of America). Heck you know things are bad when you have me praise this movie for having a token black person be on screen in a movie that's meant to be in the Middle East. Are there pale skinned people in the Middle East? Absolutely. I don't mind that the royal family and their servants have pale skin. My beef is that a movie meant to be in the Middle East shouldn't have only one noticeably black person. Especially when you consider that Lunarkand celebrates Ramadan, a holiday celebrated by Muslims, who are typically darker skinned.

"Shake That Tambourine" I guess is good but why on earth are we stopping everything just for this? All we're doing is pro-porting the stereotype that all poor Arabians are thieves. What exactly is this accomplishing when Johnny needs to escape and he's going to pay Zacha $10,000? Nothing. If anything Baba getting caught stealing only brings attention to them. The guards chase Johnny in what's the most ridiculous display of physics I've ever seen in a fight. Johnny might be an actor/stuntman, but that doesn't mean he's capable of taking on a group of soldiers. The fact that this is being treated like one of his movies destroys any possible conflict. Why should I be worried about him getting caught when I know he's just going to beat them up and get away? What's worse is that you have two orphan children throwing rocks at the guards and it knocks them out. These children are about 10 years old at the oldest. Even if they're using a slingshot of sort, I just don't see them as being strong enough to make it at all effective.

"Hey Little Girl" has the worst context I've ever seen. Johnny is singing this song while a barely 10 year old girl dances like a stereotypical adult dancing girl. This isn't me taking the song out of context when the girl literally says she dreams about growing up to be a beautiful slave woman. Not to mention that there's literally a lyric that goes "Hey little girl, I'd like to take you home. Come on, come on, come on I want you for my very own." and another that goes "I want you swing it to the left, and shake it to the right. Hey little girl, you know you're lookin' fine". This is not at all appropriate for a girl this young to be shown doing that.

If you were listening to this song as just the soundtrack version, then it's just fine. It's a different sound that breaks up the monotony of his other songs. But when you watch it in context, it just doesn't match the actual intent Johnny has of wanting to adopt this girl. I of course don't blame Elvis because he didn't choose to have this be included. I don't think he realized that, her even doing this would be inappropriate since the movie itself has associated those moves to an adult woman in a more sexual nature. Movie scenes aren't always filmed in the order the audience sees them in, so I can understand why Elvis wouldn't have made the connection the audience would make. Regardless, there were better ways to have Johnny bond with the children he plans on adopting than this.

Aishah arrives at the Den of Thieves because Zacha is still working for Sinan. Knowing Johnny isn't a complete villain, she intends on holding the slave women and children hostage so Johnny has no reason to chicken out. In what is a very jarring display of seriousness, Sinan's men arrives at the den too with a bunch of weapons. They fully intend to kill these orphans if Johnny doesn't do it. The plot to kill the King is on as the plan is to kill him during the final celebration of Ramadan.

Princess Shalimar meanwhile laments that Johnny doesn't know she's a princess. That was entirely her fault so I don't feel bad for her. I get that she probably only said she was a slave girl to keep herself safe, but once she kissed Johnny, she never told him the truth. She's so down bad for Johnny, that she hallucinates seeing his reflection in her pool. I actually don't mind this break in reality since we're obviously supposed to understand this is just her imagination. "Golden Coins" is probably the only song with a Middle Eastern sound that doesn't feel completely stereotypical. If anything it gives us an insight that Shalimar wants Johnny to worship her by giving her many gifts. Very appropriate given how she's a princess.

So Johnny goes to the palace with the flimsiest disguise I have ever seen and I severely question what Sinan's plan is. Why on earth would you have Johnny try to kill the King when he's surrounded by everyone? If Johnny is trying to warn the king why would he take his knife out before explaining the situation? Having the knife in your hand is obviously going to lead to a "shoot first, ask questions later" reaction. Why is Sinan using Aishah to hold hostages knowing good and well that Johnny would never be killed? Johnny is an American who has people knowing that he'll only be gone a week. If he never returns from Lunarkand, the State Department is going to know he was killed. This was meant to be a diplomatic mission built into his vacation so even if the prince succeeds in killing the King, having Johnny be killed would only lead to war.

This is probably the most amount of emotion Johnny shows in the entire movie. He felt betrayed that Shalimar lied to him about being a princess. He's additionally upset that he let everyone down by failing. "So Close, Yet So Far (From Paradise)" is the most relatable song in this movie. At this point in watching, I looked at the run time and saw that I was barely at the hour mark. This movie felt so long that I had to pause and walk away for a minute to contemplate how a movie could be so complicated plot wise, yet also give you nothing. After coming back to finish this movie, Baba manages to set them all free. I take back what I said earlier as in a way, he did have a genuine character moment by getting past the guards to save his friends as opposed to running away to save himself. Johnny decides to try to reason with the King knowing he would have diplomatic immunity anyway.

Sure enough, things are smoothed over once Johnny explains himself. I guess the King only believes him because Shalimar vouched for his honor. In her heart of hearts, she never believed he could do such a thing. I mean she technically shouldn't anyway since again, Johnny killing the King as the first American to step foot on this land would be an act of war. Johnny isn't that stupid to risk that. Johnny comes up with a plan to keep the King safe, and expose Sinan. Meanwhile, we get actual whippings and the potential murder of women and children at the Den of Thieves. The true mastermind is of course revealed as the prince. However, what I didn't expect is for Sinan to betray the prince so he can take the throne himself. Granted there's the very big issue of Princess Shalimar being the heir to the throne, but I appreciate the attempt to be unpredictable. Sinan does after all, plan on keeping the prince alive so the people don't grow suspicious.

Johnny of course, exposes Sinan and saves the hostages in what's a pretty clever way. Using the slave women's bells as a means of misdirecting Sinan's men is a great way to get to Sinan and make him vulnerable. After a complicated plot involving the King fighting his brother that ends with Sinan getting shot full of holes by a machine gun somehow. The King defeats his brother with Aishah's hands being binded and promises Shalimar's hand in marriage to Johnny despite knowing him for only less than a week. The King doesn't even have his brother executed and instead has him banished. Because I guess blood is thicker than water and having your brother knowingly commit an act of treason without coercion on his part isn't as bad as Johnny only pretending to try to kill you. Aishah was part of the conspiracy too so unless she goes with the prince as banishment she would absolutely be executed for her treason. But no, we just jump right over that as if the King's possible assassination doesn't even matter.

We get one final performance and what I think is a Joe cameo with Johnny's new act in a reprise of "Harem Holiday". It's nice that Johnny fulfilled his promise to adopt the slave children, but what did you expect? Johnny isn't a complete villain to just let orphan children remain in slavery. There's just no reason to even worry about them, when there's no sense of complex morals in this movie. I have no idea why Johnny would even want to call it a holiday either. Sure he was on vacation and got a bride out of this, but getting kidnapped and being asked to assassinate a monarch should be traumatizing. I get that this is an Elvis movie and we need to have an Elvis movie, but really? This is the best way you could think of ending it?

It just raises several questions on how the movie ends. Why is Johnny performing in Vegas during what's supposed to be his honeymoon? Why did Johnny even decide to go back to the US at all when he's married to a LITERAL PRINCESS? If this country is so isolated that it doesn't even have an airport, how did Shalimar and her father even get into the country without a passport? This isn't a diplomatic mission and Shalimar wouldn't automatically be a US citizen just because she married Johnny. I'm just so baffled on how the movie emphasizes Lunarkand's monarchy and isolation only to completely erase that when Johnny marrying Shalimar would be a huge deal. The unfortunate reality is that nothing in this movie that's supposed to be taken seriously is taken seriously. And when you have that happen, all you have left to do is sit there and care about as much as Johnny does about everything: very little.

This movie at times was painful to sit through. I have seen The Sheik and Son of the Sheik before watching this movie. Those were made about 40 years prior to this one and were both silent. I enjoyed those movies a lot more. Things didn't age well but at least they had cohesive stories, and actors that express real emotion. When Rudolph Valentino is angry, he can be explosive, or silently seething without hearing a word. Elvis in this movie is just flat the entire time. This is probably one of the only times where Elvis has visibly given up without having had a concussion only a couple weeks prior to filming. When the movie is supposed to be dramatic, he's just so blasé I lose all investment. If Johnny can't even care about the trouble he faced, why should I?

I have no idea how to rate this. It looks nice visually and most of the songs if listened to out of context actually sound decent. Everything else ranges from mid to bad to (in the case of "Hey Little Girl") cringe inducing. IMDB has a current rating of 4.6 which sounds about right. Since it's not even 50% good, I'm giving this a 4/10. I wouldn't recommend watching this since if you like songs, just listen to the soundtrack. If you're looking for movies in an Arabian setting, do not watch this. Just watch Rudolph Valentino's movies on YouTube since that was what Elvis specifically expected. And when you take those stories for what it was, you'll see why they were used as a source of inspiration and just how unfortunate it was that this didn't measure up.

AN: Happy Holidays everyone. I hope you have a better time than I did. If you want to be tagged in future reviews, please leave a note here: https://www.tumblr.com/deke-rivers-1957/743326835519176704/ecu-movie-taglist?source=share

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[colesstar]

@jayswalker HAPPY HOLIDAYS !! Someone (harum) was feeling rather generous and. Jay Present.

[eptodaytommorowforever]

Very Rare And Newly And Recently Discovered Promo Studio Photo Of Elvis Presley In 1965 At The Samuel Goldwyn Studios On The Production Movie Set Of Harum Scarum US Title Harem Holiday UK Title Photo By Hollywood Photographer To The Stars Bob Willoughby

[my-chaos-radio-70s-list]

The 70s & Other List

Update: Every Sunday

Last:       December 22, 2024

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A Glass Of Champagne - Sailor

A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum

Airport - The Motors

Angeleyes - ABBA

Another Funny Honeymoon - David Dundas

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Babe - Styx

Baby Come Back - Player

Bad Girls - Donna Summer

Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

Bang-A-Boomerang - ABBA

Barbara Ann - The Beach Boys

Beat The Clock - Sparks

Bicycle Race - Queen

Black Betty - Ram Jam

Blame It On The Boogie - The Jacksons

Blow Away - George Harrison

Boat On The River - Styx

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire

Born To Be Alive - Patrick Hernandez

Boy Oh Boy - Racey

Breakfast In America - Supertramp

Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel

Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers

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Ça Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand

Can't Get By Without You - The Real Thing

Chiquitita - ABBA

Cold As Ice - Foreigner

Come Together - The Beatles

Confusion - Electric Light Orchestra

Copacabana - Barry Manilow

Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison

Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen

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Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? - Rod Stewart

Daddy Cool - Boney M.

Dance Away - Roxy Music

Dance  Little Lady Dance - Tina Charles

Dancing In The City - Marshall Hain

Dancing Is Dangerous - Noel

Dancing Queen - ABBA

Davy's On The Road Again - Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Daydream Believers - The Monkees

Denis - Blondie

Devil Woman - Cliff Richard

Does Your Mother Know - ABBA

Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul

Don't Let Me Be Missunderstood - Santa Esmeralda

Don't Stop - Fleetwood Mac

Don't You Write Her Off - McGuinn, Clark & Hillman

Down Among The Dead Men - Flash And The Pan

Dr Love - Tina Charles

Dreadlock Holiday - 10cc

Dreaming - Blondie

Driver's Seat - Sniff 'N' The Tears

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Eagle - ABBA

Easy - Commodores

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman, The Modern Lovers

Emma - Hot Chocolate

Every Kinda People - Robert Palmer

Everlasting Love - Love Affair

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Far Far Away - Slade

Fairytale - Dana

Fernando - ABBA

Fire - The Pointer Sisters

Follow You Follow Me - Genesis

Fool If You Think It's Over - Chris Rea

For A Few Dollars More - Smokie

Free Me - Uriah Heep

[parkerbombshell]

From Memphis To Merseyside Ep 87

Thursdays 8pm EST bombshellradio.com From Memphis To Merseyside Summer Ep. 88 The title says it all. Tony Stuart and Aaron Badgley celebrate the beginning of summer with a playlist of summer hits and songs about summer. Add in some great chat between friends, and you have a great two hours to welcome in Summer. Ric Denis This Rumbling Sky Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues The Danleers One Summer Night Nat King Cole Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer Martha and The Vandellas Dancing In The Street Martha and The Vandellas Heatwave Mungo Jerry In The Summertime Sly And The Family Stone Hot Fun In The Summertime Paul McCartney & Wings Country Dreamer Lovin’ Spoonful Summer In The City The Beatles Here Comes The Sun The Kinks Sunny Afternoon Elvis Presley Summer Kisses, Winter Tears Procol Harum A Whiter Shade Of Pale James Brown & The Famous Flames Cold Sweat Bobbie Gentry Ode to Billie Joe The Monkees Pleasant Valley Sunday The Beatles All You Need Is Love Lighthouse Sunny Days The Beach Boys Do It Again The Beach Boys All Summer Long The Ramones Rockaway Beach Yoko Ono Midsummer New York Chicago Saturday in the Park Seals and Crofts Summer Breeze The Drifters Under The Boardwalk Klaatu Everybody Took A Holiday Lovin Spoonful Daydream The Beatles Good Day Sunshine Friends Of Distinction Grazing In The Grass Big Brother & The Holding Company Summertime King Harvest Dancing In The Moonlight Van Morrison Moondance The Who Summertime Blues Bryan James Duffy The Red Brick Road Read the full article

[iloveeap]

not that anyone asked, the three awful ones are

stay away joe (it was dated when it CAME OUT)

harum scarum (the uk title for this movie was harum holiday, i wish i was kidding)

easy come, easy go (this was soooo boring)

Reblog and put in the tags your "yes it's trash but it's MY trash" piece of media

[brookston]

Holidays 11.24

Holidays

All Our Monkeys Are Uncles Day

Brownielocks Day

Brunette Pride Day

Carménère Day

Catherine (Katarzynki; Poland

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

Celebrating Mariachi Day

Christkindlesmarkt begins (Stoudt's; Adamstown, Pennsylvania)

D.B. Cooper Day

Discovery Day (Tasmania)

Evolution Day

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Silence

Grace Darling Day

Guys and Dolls Day

International Carmenere Day

International Day of Action on Forest Biomass

International Day of the Bible [also 11.29]

Lachit Divas (Assam, India)

Martyrdom of Guru Tech Bahadur (India)

Medlar Day (French Republic)

Mothers of Civilization Day

National Border Collie Day

National Change Your Password Day (Netherlands)

National Email Unsubscribe Day

National Illustration Day (UK)

National Oliver Day

National Opt-Out Day

National Pride Day (Magnolia)

National 16-Inch Softball Day

Origin of the Species Day

Ragtime Day

Sasi Sura (Javanese New Year; Suriname)

Softball Day

Teachers’ Day (Turkey)

Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day

Vertical Marathon

Venus Day

World Walrus Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Fairy Bread Day (Australia)

National Sardines Day

St. Pumpkin's Day

World Day of Red Wine Day

4th & Last Friday in November

Black Hole Friday [Last Friday]

Friday after Thanksgiving (US) [4th Friday] (a.k.a. ... 

Black Friday

Bleak Friday (UK)

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing (But Beer) Day

Family Day (Nevada)

Green Friday

Maize Day

National Day of Listening

National Farm to Pints Day

National Flossing Day

National Leftovers Day

National Turkey Sandwich Day

Native American Heritage Day

Plaid Friday

Planetary Buy Nothing Day

Plan Your Dagwood Sandwich Day

Random Acts of Kindness Friday

Robert E. Lee Day (Georgia)

Sinkie Day (celebrates eating over the sink)

You’re Welcome Day (a.k.a. You're Welcomegiving Day)

Fur-Free Friday [Last Friday]

International Systems Engineer Day [Last Friday]

National Day of Thanksgiving (Turks and Caicos) [Last Friday]

Stars in Our Schools Day (UK) [4th Friday]

Systems Engineer Day [Last Friday]

Thank a Property Manager Day [Last Friday]

Independence Days

Calsahara (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Natin (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Northumbria (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Albert of Louvaint (Christian; Saint)

Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and companions (Christian; Vietnamese Martyrs)

Brumalia begins (Byzantine Feast of Dyonisus and New Wine Festival) [11.24 until Solstice]

Brumalia begins (Roman feast of Bacchus) [11.24 until Solstice]

Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church)

Colmán of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church)

Day of Offerings to Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Eanflæd (Christian; Saint)

Firmina (Roman Catholic Church)

Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church)

Flora and Maria (Christian; Saint)

Guru Tech Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day (India)

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (Artology)

Jehu Jones (Lutheran)

Joachim Ho (Christian; Saint)

John of the Cross (Christian; Saint)

Justus Falckner (Lutheran)

Kenan (a.k.a. Cianán; Christian; Saint)

Krisfaluchi Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lester McBird (Muppetism)

Marie Bashkirtseff (Artology)

Mary of Cordoba (Christian; Saint)

Mercurius (Eastern Church)

Pierre Dumoulin-Borie (Christian; Saint)

Protasius of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Romanus of Blaye (Christian; Saint)

Sigd (ends at Sundown) [Hebrew, Cheshvan 29]

Turgot (Positivist; Saint)

Undead Understanding Day (Pastafarian)

Vainamoinen’s Day (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell (Novel; 1877)

The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1983) [Discworld #1]

Dancing Lady (Film; 1933) [1st Fred Astaire movie]

Encanto (Animated Disney Film; 2021)

Far From the Tree (Disney Cartoon; 2021)

Guys & Dolls (Broadway Musical; 1950)

Harum Scarum (Film; 1965) [Elvis Presley #19]

Hawkeye (TV Series; 2021)

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (Cartoon Short; 2011)

Love and Other Drugs (Film; 2010)

Morris, the Midget Moose (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Film; 1993)

Murder on the Orient Express (Film; 1974)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series; 1988)

On the Origin of Species (Book; 1859)

The Pearl (Short Story; 1947)

Simon & Simon (TV Series; 1991)

Tangled (Animated Disney Film; 2010)

Tomorrow Will Be Better, by Betty Smith (Novel; 1948)

Toy Story 2 (Animated Pixar Film; 1999)

Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, by Johann Strauss (Polka; 1858)

Two Crows from Tacos (WB MM Cartoons; 1956)

Today’s Name Days

Albert, Chrysogonus, Flora (Austria)

Ekaterina, Katerina, Katina, Katya (Bulgaria)

Andrija, Krizogon, Krševan (Croatia)

Emílie (Czech Republic)

Chrysogonus (Denmark)

Ustav, Ustus (Estonia)

Lemmikki, Lempi, Sivi (Finland)

Flora (France)

Albert, Chrysogon, Clemens, Flora (Germany)

Emma (Hungary)

Cristo, Firminia, Flaviano, Flora, Prospero (Italy)

Velta, Viliberts, Viola (Latvia)

Gerardas, Mantvinas, Žybartė (Lithuania)

Gudrun, Guro (Norway)

Dobrosław, Emilia, Emma, Flora, Franciszek, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Jan, Mina, Pęcisław, Protazy (Poland)

Clement (Romania)

Emília (Slovakia)

Flora, María (Spain)

Gudrun, Rune (Sweden)

Katerina, Katherine (Ukraine)

Zachariah, Zachary, Zachery, Zackary, Zackery (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 328 of 2024; 37 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 47 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 12 (Bing-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 11 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 28 Mir; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 11 November 2023

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 20 Frederic (12th Month) [Turgot]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 62 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 3 of 30)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.24

Holidays

All Our Monkeys Are Uncles Day

Brownielocks Day

Brunette Pride Day

Carménère Day

Catherine (Katarzynki; Poland

Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day

Celebrating Mariachi Day

Christkindlesmarkt begins (Stoudt's; Adamstown, Pennsylvania)

D.B. Cooper Day

Discovery Day (Tasmania)

Evolution Day

Family Day (Palau)

Festival of Silence

Grace Darling Day

Guys and Dolls Day

International Carmenere Day

International Day of Action on Forest Biomass

International Day of the Bible [also 11.29]

Lachit Divas (Assam, India)

Martyrdom of Guru Tech Bahadur (India)

Medlar Day (French Republic)

Mothers of Civilization Day

National Border Collie Day

National Change Your Password Day (Netherlands)

National Email Unsubscribe Day

National Illustration Day (UK)

National Oliver Day

National Opt-Out Day

National Pride Day (Magnolia)

National 16-Inch Softball Day

Origin of the Species Day

Ragtime Day

Sasi Sura (Javanese New Year; Suriname)

Softball Day

Teachers’ Day (Turkey)

Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day

Vertical Marathon

Venus Day

World Walrus Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Fairy Bread Day (Australia)

National Sardines Day

St. Pumpkin's Day

World Day of Red Wine Day

4th & Last Friday in November

Black Hole Friday [Last Friday]

Friday after Thanksgiving (US) [4th Friday] (a.k.a. ... 

Black Friday

Bleak Friday (UK)

Buy Nothing Day

Buy Nothing (But Beer) Day

Family Day (Nevada)

Green Friday

Maize Day

National Day of Listening

National Farm to Pints Day

National Flossing Day

National Leftovers Day

National Turkey Sandwich Day

Native American Heritage Day

Plaid Friday

Planetary Buy Nothing Day

Plan Your Dagwood Sandwich Day

Random Acts of Kindness Friday

Robert E. Lee Day (Georgia)

Sinkie Day (celebrates eating over the sink)

You’re Welcome Day (a.k.a. You're Welcomegiving Day)

Fur-Free Friday [Last Friday]

International Systems Engineer Day [Last Friday]

National Day of Thanksgiving (Turks and Caicos) [Last Friday]

Stars in Our Schools Day (UK) [4th Friday]

Systems Engineer Day [Last Friday]

Thank a Property Manager Day [Last Friday]

Independence Days

Calsahara (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Natin (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Northumbria (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Albert of Louvaint (Christian; Saint)

Andrew Dũng-Lạc, Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, and companions (Christian; Vietnamese Martyrs)

Brumalia begins (Byzantine Feast of Dyonisus and New Wine Festival) [11.24 until Solstice]

Brumalia begins (Roman feast of Bacchus) [11.24 until Solstice]

Chrysogonus (Roman Catholic Church)

Colmán of Cloyne (Roman Catholic Church)

Day of Offerings to Sekhmet (Egyptian Warrior Goddess)

Eanflæd (Christian; Saint)

Firmina (Roman Catholic Church)

Flavian of Ricina (Roman Catholic Church)

Flora and Maria (Christian; Saint)

Guru Tech Bahadur’s Martyrdom Day (India)

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (Artology)

Jehu Jones (Lutheran)

Joachim Ho (Christian; Saint)

John of the Cross (Christian; Saint)

Justus Falckner (Lutheran)

Kenan (a.k.a. Cianán; Christian; Saint)

Krisfaluchi Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lester McBird (Muppetism)

Marie Bashkirtseff (Artology)

Mary of Cordoba (Christian; Saint)

Mercurius (Eastern Church)

Pierre Dumoulin-Borie (Christian; Saint)

Protasius of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Romanus of Blaye (Christian; Saint)

Sigd (ends at Sundown) [Hebrew, Cheshvan 29]

Turgot (Positivist; Saint)

Undead Understanding Day (Pastafarian)

Vainamoinen’s Day (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell (Novel; 1877)

The Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1983) [Discworld #1]

Dancing Lady (Film; 1933) [1st Fred Astaire movie]

Encanto (Animated Disney Film; 2021)

Far From the Tree (Disney Cartoon; 2021)

Guys & Dolls (Broadway Musical; 1950)

Harum Scarum (Film; 1965) [Elvis Presley #19]

Hawkeye (TV Series; 2021)

Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (Cartoon Short; 2011)

Love and Other Drugs (Film; 2010)

Morris, the Midget Moose (Disney Cartoon; 1950)

Mrs. Doubtfire (Film; 1993)

Murder on the Orient Express (Film; 1974)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series; 1988)

On the Origin of Species (Book; 1859)

The Pearl (Short Story; 1947)

Simon & Simon (TV Series; 1991)

Tangled (Animated Disney Film; 2010)

Tomorrow Will Be Better, by Betty Smith (Novel; 1948)

Toy Story 2 (Animated Pixar Film; 1999)

Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, by Johann Strauss (Polka; 1858)

Two Crows from Tacos (WB MM Cartoons; 1956)

Today’s Name Days

Albert, Chrysogonus, Flora (Austria)

Ekaterina, Katerina, Katina, Katya (Bulgaria)

Andrija, Krizogon, Krševan (Croatia)

Emílie (Czech Republic)

Chrysogonus (Denmark)

Ustav, Ustus (Estonia)

Lemmikki, Lempi, Sivi (Finland)

Flora (France)

Albert, Chrysogon, Clemens, Flora (Germany)

Emma (Hungary)

Cristo, Firminia, Flaviano, Flora, Prospero (Italy)

Velta, Viliberts, Viola (Latvia)

Gerardas, Mantvinas, Žybartė (Lithuania)

Gudrun, Guro (Norway)

Dobrosław, Emilia, Emma, Flora, Franciszek, Gerard, Gerarda, Gerhard, Jan, Mina, Pęcisław, Protazy (Poland)

Clement (Romania)

Emília (Slovakia)

Flora, María (Spain)

Gudrun, Rune (Sweden)

Katerina, Katherine (Ukraine)

Zachariah, Zachary, Zachery, Zackary, Zackery (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 328 of 2024; 37 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 47 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 12 (Bing-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 11 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 11 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 28 Mir; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 11 November 2023

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 20 Frederic (12th Month) [Turgot]

Runic Half Month: Nyd (Necessity) [Day 14 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 62 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 3 of 30)

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[spoiledstrawberry]

OK, THATS COOL

January- La Mente Vola By Alphataurus (I'm going to start a progressive year 🫴🏻)

February: Repent Walpurgis By Procol Harum (A LITTLE DEPRESSIVE BRUH 💀 ironic as my classes start in February so it's perfect)

March- Cantarella By Vocaloid (ERRMM ok)

April - All Right Now By Free (HHEHEHEHE, what an April jam)

May - Summer Holiday By Terry Winter (cool, but it won't be summer-)

June - Who Can It Be Now? By Men At Work (MOOD AF)

July - Even Open Door By Supertramp (at this point I'm going to be like this song LMAO)

August - Cosmic Messenger By Jean Luc Ponty (are you sure I won't hear this in January? I listen to this shit often 💀)

September - Goodbye Stranger By Supertramp (My birthday month Hshshshshshs ok, goobai strangah)

October - Enigmatic Ocean Pt II By Jean Luc Ponty

November - South California Purples By Chicago (DAMNNN WHAT A NOVEMBER YEAH)

December - Viajante By Ney Matogrosso (EMO AFFFFF)

Tagging: @anxiousrelief @milkyway-ashes @radiochuu @probably-not-mig @glennsdick @moonage-dancer @huntressofartemis001 @frodopotter7 @peaceloveandstarrs and everyone who has Spotify

I didn't tag u @bridgeoverstrawberryfields cause I know you don't have Spotify, dear :(

i wanna start a tag game so: let your spotify predict your 2024!

shuffle your on repeat playlist, and the first twelve songs represent your 2024

january- guns and ships- hamilton (idek what this could represent but okay)

february- we fell in love in october- girl in red (PLEASE)

march- say no to this- hamilton (…i have nothing to say about this)

april- castles crumbling- taylor swift ft hayley williams (damnit sad month then?)

may- you’re losing me- taylor swift (FUCK TWO SAD MONTHS?? breakup songs are even worse now that im actually in a relationship. please. better not be accurate)

june- astronomy- conan gray (please stop why am i having so many sad songs)

july- stoned- ed sheeran (oh fuck this)

august- new year’s day- taylor swift (hm okay. idk what to say about this)

september- heather- conan gray (i consider heather to be a happy song AND it’s mine and my partners song so i’m taking this as a good one)

october- 18- one direction (yessss we’re going okay now)

november- king of my heart- taylor swift (YESSS)

december- all too well (ten minute version)- taylor swift (i take it back ugh)

no pressure tags!!- @autumnleavesforwinter @weeping-in-the-willows @swiftieannah @felizusnavidad @jittyjames @anixknowsnothin (please help me get this off the ground, but also if this flops you saw nothing)

[deke-rivers-1957]

Holiday Review Announcement

That's what Harum Scarum's called in the UK because apparently actually spelling it harem wasn't cool by US standards.

I guess you can also photoshop this into being Santa Claus. I know it's not the greatest movie and definitely not the best way to end the year, but I found something very interesting while reading the summary. Bar Esalaam, (the fictional city this movie takes place in) sounds a lot like the real life Dar es Salaam (the largest city in Tanzania).

Tanzania at the time of this movie's production had just recently been established as a unified country with Tanganyika and Zanzibar getting their independence from the UK on December 9th 1961 and December 10th 1963 respectively. What does any of this have to do with Elvis' Arabian movie? Ramadan is considered to be an important plot element and Tanzania has a large Muslim population.

At the end of the day, this is just grasping at straws to give this movie a significantly deeper meaning than originally intended. I had this movie picked for December randomly and since I've been trying to make connections to special events this was the closest I could get.

Happy Holidays and I hope I can find at least something to enjoy about a commonly hated movie.

[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)

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Park Harume (NoCC)

Park Harume has been reconstructed, so it combines the long history of the area and the present. There are beautiful scenery and incredible scenery, perfect for a good holiday with children. Or for a walk with loved ones.

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