#ubaba

[beautiful-basque-country]

The outstanding Ubaba viewpoint, Urbasa range (Nafarroa).

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[elderlytourney]

Old Woman Tourney Round 2 - P

[ro-sen]

Once You've Met Someone You Never Really Forget Them

[hiphopafrikaorg]

TBOY DAFLAME – UBABA KA DUDUZANE (GQOM EDITION)

uBaba ka Duduzane (Gqom Edition) Mp3 is the newest song from the South African singer whose name is Tboy Daflame. https://hiphopafrika.org/tboy-daflame-ubaba-ka-duduzane-gqom-edition/

[skenpiel]

YAY💗

wat abbtou me my lovely When your done with your important work of course

Afghan hound

[glitched-eyes]

Something I keep on thinking about with The Boy and the Heron was the way the movie seems to mix Japanese and European designs.

Spoilers for the Film, btw

What I mean in particular is the house he moves to, the entrance is more traditionally Japanese.

But then the part he sleeps in as well as the tower are more western in style

Someone with far more knowledge is probably best speaking about this, but I found it an interesting choice.

It reminds me of a video essay I watched about how in Spirited Away, the bathhouse is in a traditional Japanese style, but Ubaba's quarters add her dress are western, and how it relates to colonial power.

It really makes me wonder what Miyazaki was trying to say with these design choices. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

[peterxwade24]

BWYD Chapter 39

For Maribat March 2021 Day 25: School Dance

Brothers are Annoying

Marinette and Adrien had swapped parents a few days ago and had begun patrolling as each other, or rather as Māomī and Bāndiǎn, respectively. Māomī, initially, looked like a female version of Chat Noir, with Bāndiǎn looking like a male version of Ladybug but that changed after the first few transformations. Their enemies, and allies, didn’t know what to think of the swap at first and then they learned that even though they had swapped Ladybug and Chat Noir were still in charge and leading the team.

Māomī looked like a smaller, slightly darker version of Red Hood, for some reason. She wore black, pleather, cargo pants with criss-crossing straps across her thighs and shins with a black belt cinching the waist in. She had a black, long-sleeved top underneath a black, armored vest with a neon green bat across her chest. Over her shirt and vest she had a black pleather jacket with a silver zipper resting against her belt. She had a dark green domino mask with tiny black paw prints on either side of her eyes, which were an acidic blue-green. Her boots were such a dark brown they almost appeared black with silver tips which alluded to the fact they were steel-toed. 

Bāndiǎn, on the other hand, looked almost inspired by Arsenal. He wore baggy red pants with thick black stripes down the sides tucked into black, silver-tipped, steel-toed boots. He wore a red, sleeveless top tucked into his pants over a black long-sleeved shirt with red spots down the sides. His hands were covered in black gloves, not too dissimilar to Chat Noir’s gloves. He had a black belt, mostly to break up the big block of red that was his costume. He had a slightly darker shade of red bat across his chest, only because he wanted to match with his partner.

They had only been spotted around Paris a handful of times, but even in that short amount of time, they’d given the Parisians a sense of hope. That if their main hero pair could be just as successful with the other’s powers, maybe they had a chance to defeat Hawkmoth.

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Marinette was leaning against her friends and brothers in their house, debating with herself if she wanted to call Bruce or not.

“Copycat, quit thinking so loudly.” Damian chucked a throw pillow at his sister, shaking his head with a laugh. “Just talk to us.”

“Mari,” Colin began, “what’s up?”

“I don’t know if I should call Ubaba to ask him to send one of the girls to help me choose outfits for us for the dance.” Marinette turned to look at her brothers, seeing the understanding in Damian’s eyes, because he too had had his privacy violated by some of their brothers.

“Do it.” Alix brushed her fingers through Marinette’s hair intent to braid it. “If Circus Boy and Yellow Guy are just going to treat you like you’re a baby then reach out to someone who won’t.”

“Why don’t we just all go to a thrift shop to browse and see what we like and what would look best on us?” Adrien looked at his friends, worry written on his face.

“Adrien, bestie, if I wasn’t gay, I would make out with you for how smart that is.” Marinette almost melted against Alix’s ministrations.

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The group of friends spent way too long walking around the thrift shop, pointing out different things to each other all willy-nilly. Colin had, in fact, pointed out a dark purple, cheetah print top that Marinette had forced him to try on, and then they had bought it. It had suited Colin, possibly too well, given he had just randomly found it while browsing.

They spent a few hours just browning before they had to leave, not having found anything really inspiring. However, they had patrol to get ready for. Crime waits for no one, and Hawkmoth? He opperates on his own timetable.

A loud explosion sounded from across the city, the first indication that Hawkmoth had released an Akuma.

The group of friends looked at each other, exchanged a smile, before rushing out of the thrift store. They had an Akuma to stop and a city to save.

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Falak, Terrapene, Wadjet, Māomī and Bāndiǎn rounded on the Akuma, a recently fired shop worker going by Time Off, and took their stances. The battle had been going on for nearly thirty minutes and this was the first time they’d been even a little close to beating the Akuma. None of them had used their powers, but they had come close a few times to at least two of them using their powers.

Māomī and Bāndiǎn shared a look before turning to look at Falak, Terrapene and Wadjet. “This is about to get dicey, we’re going to need to run this very close together. We have an idea how to finish this but we’re going to need to use everyone’s power.”

The quintet looked at each other before everyone nodded. “Let’s do this.”

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All in all, the battle took an additional twenty minutes and it did in fact take everyone’s powers. But, at the end of the battle, they beat Time Off and comforted the Akuma victim. He was one of the only members of staff at his small store that hadn’t had his time off request approved. It had happened several times since he started at the store, every time he put in a request it was denied. All he wanted was time off, was that so hard to ask?

The quintet all agreed that that was bogus, that he should have been approved at least once by now. So, that gave his a suggestion.

“I hear Wayne Enterprises is always hiring.” Falak shrugged in faux nonchalance. “You should look into applying, I hear that they are opening a near branch in the city.”

“Yeah, maybe I will.”

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Marinette, Adrien, Alix, Colin and Damian walked into the dance, all of them wearing beautifully put together outfits with gray accents. They looked like a cohesive unit and not just a group of friends.

Damian wore a cream collared shirt under a brown plaid vest with a burgundy pocket square, gray dress pants and black dress shoes. His hair was slicked back and gelled to perfection. Colin wore a green plaid short sleeve shirt under a dark gray vest, charcoal dress pants and black dress shoes. His hair was tousled just so to look like tasteful bedhead. Adrien wore anoversized orange plaid shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the middle of his forearms over gray dress pants and light brown dress shoes. His hair was combed off of his forehead. Alix wore a green blouse with a floral print and gold buttons over beige dress pants and gray ankle boots. Marinette wore a black cheongsam with black lace from the top of the bodice to her neck with gray and white kitten heels.

They were some of the best dressed at the dance, and they couldn’t be happier. Hopefully, WE would have a new employee, that guy seemed stressed and needed all that WE offers its employees. All in all, things were looking up for the quintet and for Parisians at large.

Taglist: @dast218 @amayakans @toodaloo-kangaroo @crazylittlemunchkin @marinettepotterandplagg @duckies16

[globalworship]

I pay no heed to all my scars for my Father will heal me (Zulu song)

"Angiwanaki" is a traditional Zulu song, arranged here by featured singer Nomvula Maneli as an homage to her parents, her father being Xhosa and her mother being Zulu. The lyrics of the opening verse — “Angiwanaki amanxeba ami uzowapholis’ ubaba” in Zulu — translate as “I pay no heed to all my scars for my Father will heal me.”

Recorded April 20, 2023, in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Recording Studios at Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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ANGIWANAKI   Arranged by Nomvula Maneli Angiwanaki - I pay no heed Amanxeba ami - to all my scars Uzowapholis’ ubaba - for my Father will heal me Uzowapholis - he will heal Amanxeba ami - all my scars Uzowapholis’ ubaba - my father will heal/ restore me "Angiwanaki " © 29:11 International Exchange. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

[amr2002amr]

In Spirited Away, I bet a lot of trans folk would have loved giving up their name for a new name from Ubaba and completely forget their own name.

[dzamie]

Tag transcript:

#funny and true but also this has me thinking in the insomnia hours #i think it's a little taken for granted how ya it's a story about her maturing and accepting change that's a much stated intention of it #but i think it's forgotten how much he was wanting to portray a girl for the girls #and thinking about it now seeing comments where ppl are complaining about weird kid stories where they have no agency it's like… #ya that's the thing with kids. they are in new experiences constantly and expected to take it with adult grace and have no choice #but really thinking about it i feel like she is characterized by her kindness but specifically she Does take agency #it makes me think of the conventional wisdom re what was up with Alice in wonderland and this is a similar type of story #I've seen the meta on wonderland that goes into the fact that this is what it's like in a kids world #she's run off from her governess who wants her to do all this stuff she had no care or context for #and this whole fever dream feels like being a kid being poked at and having value judgements made of u that u don't get #being told to do all sorts of ridiculous stuff and dealing w authority figures being mad when u don't just get the rules #Alice gets pushed from one scene to the next #and at the start this happens to chihiro #thinking on it right now it feels a lot more like keeping true to yourself while you learn to navigate these things #all the adults are so unhinged in this story and it feels a lot like when u first get old enough to realize adults can be full of shit #chihiro at the beginning would have picked any old pig in the lineup at best to appease the prompt due to the pressure to reply #chihiro at the end takes her time listens to her heart is unafraid to speak up and say this is a trick question i won't pick just to pick #when she has no idea what's going on it's important for her to keep her head down and absorb the world she's in #but whenever she's faced with a trail or a choice she's brave enough to take it and won't back down #she has agency and an iron will she WENT DOWN THOSE STAIRS TO THAT BOILER and she was willing to work #no she should not Have to do a lot of this bc she's 10 but that's not the plot #adults around you can be selfish and i think it's more accurate to say that her own selfishness was narratively more about… #realizing that sometimes people's moods aren't about you in a way? #again not selfish she's a 10 yr old in basically a horror situation #she's very proactive esp for a girl character coming out at that time and that was intentional i think #she faces demanding body horror humans with Respect she treats spirits twisted by human disregard with kindness #she goes down the frightening stairs in a rush she deliberately walks the tracks and takes a long thoughtful train ride she never swerves #empathy was what she had to connect with and what she showed at ever key moment #but ya ubaba u have got beef w a 10yo!! #sorry to op for all these tags on a funny shit post but seeing the same comment over and over i was like

obsessed with how the entire movie is just this

[eclesalia]

La vida es un regalo

LA VIDA ES UN REGALOKOLDO ALDAI AGIRRETXE, koldo@portaldorado.comARTAZA (NAVARRA). ECLESALIA, 20/09/24.- Las noticias corren raudas por nuestro valle. Ni siquiera habían desembarcado los amarillos y ocres menguantes en la sierra. Una mujer que se equivoca, una nueva vida que se despeña en el Balcón de Ubaba, una desesperación más sin poder sostener, un alma de no poder echar para atrás, de no…

[pennycat83]

I legit think I can only put this here but I watched the stage play version of Spirited Away, by play standards it was phenomenal, I loved the puppets, props, way it only uses one set but so well, etc. But in the story department it kinda lacks.

I feel like they already got the script and let certain things slip or not fully take fruition. Like this is probably just my ass growning up on the English dub and how natural it sounds, but characters like Kamaji, Lin and even Haku were overacting at points.

Mildish spoilers??? (literally only makes sense if you watch it) But the biggest idea I had on why so many characters were overacting in the bath house in comparison to the opening sequence, is because the bath house is by default, overtly lavish and grand. Like of course the staff would need to overact to bring in customers and keep them satisfied, whilst it also works as a nice fit for the play.

My only grip is the characters I mentioned aren't like that. Haku's more or less brainwashed by Ubaba into working there so it'd make more sense if that over acting slips at points. Lin's already bullied by her peers and higher up and no one sees Kamaji, he's the boiler guy, who the fuck goes on holiday and is like "hey honey wanna go down to the scalding heat inducing steam room to check out the boilers?!".

Also since the og movie's like 2 hours long the pacing in it's done in a particular way where it's slow, builds up to acti0n and then comes down for more slow. It flows in just the right way where it doesn't feel like it drags (also it's animation so that's the main thing you're focusing on as it goes on). The acting helped with that in the original as well with how chill all the workers are in the down to Earth scenes.

But since everyone was overacting most of the time I just got bored. Like it's all high note all the time, I was betting on when the damn interval was.

The only scene that didn't feel like that was when we got to the train scene and we watch a group of shadowy yokai leave one by one. Nothing's changed, it's the same in the perfect sense, it's the right kind of breather, my favourite part in it's when this one shadow that looks like a school girl watches them a bit before getting off.

Like in the movie none of the shadows did that they didn't seem interested in Chihiru and no face but I like that small touch.

Again I had no beef with the set design I was just annoyed with how sloppy the pacing felt.

[elderlytourney]

Old Woman Tourney - Round 1 Group 1C

[eggyspoon]

Mini theory alert🧙‍♂️

Ok so, we all know that the gang from the circus can remember parts of their lives before the circus but they cant remember their names.

HERE COMES THE THEORY

maybe the way they get out of the circus is by remembering their names Like spirited away ( or well haku specifically ) and it sorta works like cane is ubaba??? ( I think thats her name, the fat one from ghibli. )

Idk if anyone has said this yet but yk. Just a theory :0 )

[piasgermany]

[Album + Video] A cappella-Band The Joy kündigt Debütalbum an!

Die 5-köpfige südafrikanische A-cappella-Band The Joy kündigt ihr selbstbetiteltes Debütalbum an, welches am 21. Juni auf Transgressive Records veröffentlicht wird.

Das 11-Track-Album wurde live in den renommierten Church Studios in Crouch End in London aufgenommen und enthält keine Instrumente oder Overdubs. Die Songs kommen dabei nur mit dem erstaunlichen Gesangstalent der Mitglieder - Pastor (Ntokozo Bright Magcaba), Duzie (Melokuhle Mkhungo), Guduza (Sphelele Hlophe), Sthombe (Phelelani Sithole) und Marcus (Sanele Ngcobo) aus, die seit ihrer Schulzeit zusammen Musik machen. Fünf Teenager aus dem südafrikanischen Township Hammarsdale, die damals früher als alle anderen zu ihrer Schulchorprobe erschienen - früh genug, um spontan einen neuen Song zu erschaffen und zu merken, wie gut das funktioniert.

Aufgewachsen sind die Fünf in einem Teil Südafrikas, in dem die Zulu-Tradition des A-cappella-Gesangs für die kulturelle Identität des Volkes von zentraler Bedeutung ist und Ladysmith Black Mambazo seit Jahrzehnten verehrt werden. Mit "You Complete Me" teilt die Band eine erste Kostprobe samt Video.

Tracklist "The Joy": 01. Uhlenge 02. Amaqatha Amancane 03. Mama ka Nomthandazo 04. Bayang’khetela 05. Mama uleli Kanjani 06. Ngiphuphe Ngilele 07. Mashaya kancane 08. uBaba Uthwelekanzima 09. You Complete Me 10. Amandla ka Moya 11. Jesu

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Movies I watched this Week # 153 (Year 3/Week 49):

So on Monday morning, as I start preparing my "Viewing schedule" for the week, I stumble on a new space documentary The making of JUICE, and two hours later, I already know that this will probably be my most emotionally-rewarding film of the week. It chronicles the final years of development of The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which took off to Jupiter on April 14, 2023. It’s a deeply technical dive into a topic I know nothing about. But it’s absolutely exhilarating - 10/10.

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I really struggled with Scorsese's new saga Killers of the flower moon. It's an indictment against America's original sin, the genocide and dispossession of the ingenious population, and the systemic evil it shows is deeply unpleasant. Had De Nero ever played such an sinister character? His Jimmy Conway was also a ruthless murderer, but he didn't come across as Machiavellian as here.

It's a stunningly beautiful film, but the tragedy should have been told in two hours, not 3.5.

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While waiting for Miyazaki's latest 'The boy and the heron', I caught Castle in the sky, one of the last Ghibli Studio features I hadn't seen yet.

An imaginative retro-futuristic adventure, its drawing style is somehow primitive compared to his later films. As always, many of its themes and tropes were repeated later nearly-verbatim: The old woman pirate who become Ubaba in 'Spirited away', the many fanciful steampunk airships, the strong female protagonist and her sidekick, the magical journey, the beautiful scenery, the ecological destruction, the sumptuous food.

(Unfortunately I could only watch it in the bad English dubbed version).

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From the '30 best mobster movies' list, the classic French Noir Touchez pas au grisbi ('Don't touch the loot'). Cool Jean Gabin is the honorable gangster, a refined, quiet, responsible, thoughtful criminal with an impeccable looks and manners. 8/10.

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3 by German-born French director Dominik Moll:

🍿 The Night of the 12th, a patient award-winner cop thriller that follows an investigation into an unsolved murder. A young woman is burnt alive, and in the quest to discover who did it, quiet dynamics about misogyny and gender roles are being exposed. Reminiscent of 'Memories of murder'. The rural areas outside Grenoble were mouth-watering beautiful. 8/10.

🍿 Moll’s previous thriller, Only the animals, was even a tighter thriller. Like ‘Rashomon’, it tells seven diverse stories that don't seem connected until the very last scene. This one is worth watching without any knowledge about it beforehand; it's so surprising, and shocking, and fresh. My 6th film with Denis Ménochet. Best thriller I've seen for a while - 9/10.

🍿 His earlier hit, With a Friend Like Harry, disappointed me greatly. "Harry" meets an old high school acquaintance at a roadside restroom, and invites himself to stay with the friend's family. Without any clear motivation, well-to-do Harry decides to buy his struggling friend a new car, and as some days go by, starts killing everybody around him, "because they irritate him (?)". It opens with a long grating scene of the three children crying in the car, and continued with none of the characters becoming appealing or interesting. A terrible Hitchcock at best.

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2 about cute French swimming instructors:

🍿 The five devils, My 5th uneven film with Adèle Exarchopoulos. It's a mixed up magical fantasy which is also taking place in the eastern mountainous part of Rhône. At its core, there's a tender bond between a mother and her daughter, and the 10-year-old has a extra-strong sense of smell. But then a slew of confusing subplots emerge. They include pyromania, clairvoyance, disintegrating marriage, supernatural time travel, lesbianism, trances, and what have you. 4/10.

🍿 Sink or swim, my 10th film with gorgeous Belgian actress Virginie Efira. A low-brow and predictable 'comedy' about a depressed group of suburban, sad-sack losers, each with their own midlife crisis, who join a male team of synchronized swimming. Efira is their trainer, and the whole premise is ridiculous, and sloppily-made. 2/10.

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First watch: Vincente Minnelli's turn of the century Gigi. A lame musical about a teenager prostitute school... Sorry, "Courtesans". Hard to fathom that in 1958 it swept all the 9 Oscars it was nominated for! It opens with 70-year-old grandpa Maurice Chevalier singing “Thank Heaven For Little Girls", an ode to 7 year old girls with a sly smile on his face. Disturbingly creepy, it's explicitly about "grooming", or, how to train a young woman to be a mistress. 1/10.

At least it got me interested enough to read about the "Belle Époque", the "Golden Age" era from a century ago, which had so many similarities to our recent past: A period "characterised by optimism, regional peace, economic prosperity, colonial expansion, and technological, scientific, and cultural innovations". And which ended so brutally by some certain historical calamities, the two World Wars…

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Make way for tomorrow, the "Saddest movie ever made"? An old couple loses their home in 1937 America, and none of their five selfish adult children wants to help them stay together. A real tearjerker that may have been the inspiration to Ozu's 'Tokyo Story'.

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“… This land doesn’t seem to have changed much…”

Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) was a symbolic, melancholic Danish painter. Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershøi is part of the travelogue series that Michael Palin used to host. Palin was fascinated by him, because many of his Vermeer-inspired portraits featured a mysterious woman shown from the back.

He lived mainly on Strandgade 30 in Christianshavn, [which I passed on many times], and painted the interior of his home more than 60 times. Extensive use of Bach's Prelude No. 1. But the documentary itself was not very insightful.

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2 Black Mirror-like Re-watches:

🍿 Melancholic Black Mirror S1, E1, Be right back, voted as "12th greatest TV episodes of the 21 century", an unusually tender story.

🍿 Soderbergh's tight conspiracy fire cracker from last year, Kimi, his nail-biting Covid-19 'Black Mirror'-style thrill-ride. Like Hitchcock's Rear Window about our digital life today. With Derek DelGaudio as the murderous heavy. Terrifying 9/10.

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"Off with everybody's heads!"

A 1915 silent film version of Alice in Wonderland, using faithful costuming to the original John Tenniel's illustrations. Some of the animal characters were creepy.

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Hatchi X 2:

🍿 Hatchiko, a new Chinese remake of the famous real-life Japanese story about the faithful dog, waiting to his owner at the railway station, even years after his death. Adora and I watched the Richard Gere's 'Hatchi' many times. Here, the dog is not an Akita, but a mongrel and his name is BaTong. There's also a scene where he is saved from a dog meat restaurant, just before being made into spicy stir-fry. Very sentimental, with Joan Chen.

🍿 I also tried to watch the original 1987 Japanese original of Hachikō Monogatari, but this turned up to be a insufferable Olde Tyme, super sweet version, and I had to abandon it midstream.

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2 more by The Obama's:

🍿 American symphony documents a year in the life of musician Jon Batiste and his wife, as she struggles with leukemia. I've previously seen five other films that were produced by Obama’s Hollywood company, 'Higher Ground'. But as much I adored him 15 and 18 years ago, this 'heart-felt' documentary was boringly pedestrian. 2/10.

🍿 I devoured Leave the world behind because I always seek realistic stories about the end of our world. It started slow and small, with some highfalutin cinematography and sound edits, surrounding the lifestyle of the upper middle class well-to-do and un-famous. But it quickly lost steam as it turns into a mixed-up conspiracy nightmare, that tries to get all the possible apocalyptic tropes into one giant pot. A generous 5/10.

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The Realest Real, another short parable with Mahershala Ali, about fashion, social media, status. Produced by the Kenzo brand. 2/10.

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Fast Charlie, a new Mississippi/New Orleans crime thriller, with Pierce Brosnan as an aging, omnipotent hit-man, dreaming of retiring to Tuscany. Like a mid-range Elmore Leonard caper with high body count. James Caan's last paycheck.

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"...Wait. Not the homeless person that fell down the stairs?..."

What does it say about me that one of my favorite romantic comedies of late is Long shot, and that I've seen it probably 10 times, including last month, and that I felt 'forced' to watch it again today?

The Boys ll Men groove is how this movie appeals to me. But it's so well-done on every level. 10/10.

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Nahum Gutman and his world, the only documentary I could find about the greatest Israeli painter, my childhood’s hero. But the banal voiceover gave the most incomprehensible gibberish analysis for the visuals: Worst Art Talk ever!

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(My complete movie list is here)