All Macresarf1's Epinions, Indexed by Category. [Part of "The Open Your Heart for Emily" Write-off]
Feb 10 '02 (Updated Sep 15 '02)
The Bottom Line Here is a periodically updated list of my over 325 Epinions, listed alphabetically by category, many with URL's.
Dear Readers:
When I accepted Diverpam's kind invitation to take part in The Open Kimono Write-off, I did not exactly know what it was or what it would entail. I do know it has entailed hours of frustrating struggle to figure out how to fit over 300 Epinion Titles into some coherent form.
I decided to make an annotated index of my Epinions by an arbitrary system of subject category, some of my own invention.
[I feel easier, now that the title and purpose of the write-off has been changed to gather money for one of our colleague's children.]
Actually, I found this effort, certainly for me, practical and helpful. (For instance, I discovered that I may be missing a couple of reviews!) I had always wanted to put my pieces here in a more useful order. And so, now I have. I hope you find this index helpful, too.
I intend to come back to add URL's for all the entries, and to add more comments, as I bring the list up to date periodically.
Most review titles are listed in categories, alphabetically by their capitalized "Product" names. (Some revisions of format will be noticed.)
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The Wit and Wisdom of Macresarf1, Indexed and Annotated. [Coming soon (and gradually) -- more URL's!]:
* * * * * * * * * BEST LISTS * * * * * * * * *
1) My Autobiography in THE BEST COMEDIES EVER: Be Careful What You Laugh At! [Limited to my Lifetime.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-594-8E7CA52-394192DC-prod6
2) THE BEST DRAMAS EVER? It Depends On What You Call Drama. [According to definititon.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-206C-8305A31-3919C5F2-prod3
3) The BEST EPIC FILMS EVER, by Definition, Require a Valid Hero. [Epics deal with bravery over time.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6829-8A8EB97-391C90BC-prod5
4) THE TEN BEST FILMS EVER Is a Tall Order! [A very idiosyncratic list.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2CF-E157FA3-398B7E5B-prod1
5) The Best [Films] of 1999: It's surprise time again! [Caused some consternation.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3EB7-98D8251-38A9C208-prod7
6) Not all of my Best [Films] of the 1990's are Usual Suspects.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5268-3FD86FE-388F8544-prod1
7) Macresarf1's THE BEST [Films] OF 2000 Has, as usual, A Few Surprises.
http://www.epinions.com/content_6505991812
8) Macresarf1's TEN BEST FILMS of 2001. [Now in the place where it belongs.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_2583011460
9) The BEST HORROR FILMS EVER Are Mostly Unknown. [True horror is in the mind, not in obvious special effects.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2638-D6E33A2-394D52A7-prod5
10) The BEST SCI-FILMS EVER (in Our Time). [The list disturbed some because of the time limitation that I made.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-40F-1A90D6-392B0AC0-prod6
11) We are the victims in the BEST THRILLER/ SUSPENSE FILMS EVER. [Why do we like to be threatened?]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4F8B-A4CDE20-392D90B1-prod1
* * * * * * * * * BOOKS * * * * * * * * *
1) Does THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY Carry Us to Love and Faith? [A book certainly better than the movie.]
http://www.epinions.com/book-review-5D70-318362C-39C55171-prod5
2) A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS: Someone Still Pays for the Bullet! [One of Eric Ambler's first and greatest spy novels. In its setting and subject, soon to be back in fashion.]
http://www.epinions.com/book-review-34B3-7258138-39FF534B-prod1
3) DUBLINERS: A Fine Linen Sheet Drawn Over the Form of Ireland. [A great, seminal book of short stories.]
http://www.epinions.com/book-review-4457-9C76E50-38F511C3-prod6
4) HALLIWELL'S WHO'S WHO IN MOVIES: The Best Single Guide to Film Culture. [This book and Maltin = !!]
http://www.epinions.com/content_22608973444
5) We are still engaged IN DUBIOUS BATTLE. [Steinbeck's matrix novel.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_10949398148
6) THE WAYWARD BUS Limps into . . . San Francisco?!!! [Steinbeck's forgotten first Post War novel]
http://www.epinions.com/content_61662006916
* * * CD's * * *
1) I Have My BODY HEAT back! [Jazz at the Movies Band do sexy Jazz to Film Noir scores.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_27715800708
2) Philip Sainton's Score for John Huston's MOBY DICK (1956) Is a Real Discovery. [An integrated film score in classical mode.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_7765397124
3) SAX AND VIOLENCE -- Two for the Price of One. [Okay, but not up to BODY HEAT or WHITE HEAT.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_24100703876
4) The Top Ten Soundtracks of ALL Time??? Okay, Cue Em' Up! [Must confess, I think soundtracks are film scores.]
http://www.epinions.com/musc-review-7EAE-7C94774-38EFF7CD-prod6
5) WHITE HEAT and Jazz: The Bobby Blake Connection. [Will the LAPD crack this case?]
http://www.epinions.com/content_22072168068
* * * * * * * * * COMMENTARY * * * * * * * * *
1) Answers for Most-Asked Questions to Macresarf1 on How He Rates.
http://www.epinions.com/user-review-BB-109DC477-3991FA6C-prod1
2) Black Comedy is becoming easier to discern. [It has nothing to do with race, per se.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_1064280196
3) A Latecomer Arrives at the Epinions Village Write-off. [One of many limnings of the Epinions "Community."]
http://www.epinions.com/user-review-5BEE-13A38A41-3A0B6F9E-prod2
4) Sophia Coppola Opens THE 43RD SF FILM FESTIVAL at The Castro.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-273D-65AB1B-3905E5F3-prod6
5) The Four Faces of Epinions. [Just a trifle that more people read than I would have imagined.]
http://www.epinions.com/user-review-33C3-1640F95-38CC27D6-prod2
6) A Gift of Psychoanalysis for ANNEXATION. [A bit of black humor.]
http://www.epinions.com/user-review-1E72-29453BFC-3A42D0AB-prod2
7) It's Not Too Late To Be LEARNING ABOUT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [Update 1/6/01]. [Close to the Mark!]
http://www.epinions.com/book-review-5F43-F887E23-3A00ECD5-prod2
8) Macresarf1 Weighs in on "Rubber Stamping," Spamming, Plagiarism, etc., and PARANOIA -- Briefly. "
http://www.epinions.com/content_1770365060
9) Movie-Going: Thoughts on Watching and Reviewing Movies: (Essay #1).
http://www.epinions.com/user-review-1ADF-3C3E2934-3A344664-prod3
10) Movie Going: Thoughts on Watching and Reviewing Movies (Essay #2).
http://www.epinions.com/content_2531827844
11) Movie Going: Thoughts on Watching and Reviewing [Becoming an Epinions Movie Critic). [Called #3.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_2096734340
12) Only Fools Predict the [2000] Oscars. Critic Contemplates Suicide.
13) PREDICTIONS FOR THE 73RD ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS -- One Award Will Be Truly Deserved.
http://www.epinions.com/content_1116643460
14) The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival at The Castro Theater.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-E10-21EE45A9-3981CD70-prod5
* * * * * * * * * MOTION PICTURES * * * * * * * * *
--- Adventure Films ---
1) In THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN, Errol Flynn Kids His Image. [Underrated, if only for Steiner's score.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-77C8-F7714A-397A2732-prod3
2) BEAU GESTE: A Grand Boy's Adventure Story.
3) THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING must keep his head! [Very much a now film again in Afghanistan.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4AAB-D5016E0-39287A12-prod5
4) MOBY DICK (1956); or The Whiteness of the Screen. [Underrated, if seen in original print scheme.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-96C-5AE324D-39FB9287-prod1
5) ROB ROY has the shape of a classic movie.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3E33-B74D291-387E74A4-bd1
6) "Up there . . ." is THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE!
7) In the Light of WHITE DAWN, We First Saw the Promise of Director Phil Kaufman.
* * * Comedy and Satire --
1) THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT Is Propelled by Smoke and Mirrors. [A whacky hippie piece of surrealism.]
2) AMERICAN BEAUTY: Great Execution, Faulty Screenplay.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-39FA-12E457F4-387FA61F-prod2
3) AMERICAN PSYCHO, and Some Critics, May Miss the Point. [A dark, not quite satire, indeed.]
4) Celebrate the ANNIVERSARY PARTY. [Delightful, if you like theater people.]
5) The Wee Scot Who Tried in THE BIG TEASE. [Scottish hairdresser goes to Hollywood.]
http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html?cid=1136316&update=1
6) Jean Shepherd created a classic in his CHRISTMAS STORY.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5DAA-15D9077-3888D55D-bd1
7) DEATH TO SMOOCHY: The Ghost of Preston Sturges Meets BATMAN.
http://www.epinions.com/content_60335033988
8) AN EVERLASTING PIECE of Humor (May We Hope?) [Irish barbers go for toupees.]
9) FAST FOOD, FAST WOMEN: a good, if venerable title, for a pretty bad movie. [Little New York movie]
10) A Small Sunday Bow to FATHER BROWN aka THE DETECTIVE. [Minor Guiness, based on Chesterton.]
11) Henry Jaglom Takes Us to a FESTIVAL IN CANNES. [Another good Jaglom]
http://www.epinions.com/content_61998468740
12) THE GOLD RUSH: Grown up, grown tired of those Chaplin clips?
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-48C2-CE8AD11-38822C98-bd
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13) Running Around GOSFORD PARK Like Geese with Their Heads Cut Off? Not Robert Altman. [We might call it a Satirical Melodrama, or even Drama.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_57535860356
14) If We Had Only Listened to THE GREAT MCGINTY! [Enron culprits should rent this.]
15) GREENFINGERS Is All Butterfingers.
16) The Attorney General's Report on the HAIKU TUNNEL Project. [In the form of legal parody.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_41693974148
17) "Conscience of THE INDEPENDENT" by Morty Fineman. [A parody of a parody.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_58148228740
18) LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL reaches for a new low. [Enraged fans when I suggested this comedy was tasteless.]
19) Do We Have to Go MEET THE PARENTS Again? [An amazing number of people liked this comedy.]
20) NURSE BETTY Has a Bad Limp. [And this one, too.]
21) O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? In deed? Indeed!
22) Get into BEING JOHN MALKOVICH!
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-30CD-BFEFA9F-387FD651-bd1
23) THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY May Be a Funny Xmas Present.
24) THE SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK Was Due to a MAD WEDNESDAY. [Sturges, again.]
25) SPLASH is nonsense -- but charming nonsense.
26) Still Amused by SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT?
27) SULLIVANS TRAVELS: or, How Pluto Escaped the Flypaper. [And Sturges, again!]
28) TRIXIE: Elementary and Funny, My Dear Ms Watson! [Underrated.]
* * * Crime Films --
1) BONNIE AND CLYDE still speaks to the disaffected young and all the bedeviled.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3F5C-8585302-386BBB10-prod1
2) CROUPIER: An Existential Tale, an Indie Sleeper.
3) 15 MINUTES Divides Too Many Times in Two Hours.
4) Bogart Went to the Top for the First Time in HIGH SIERRA! [First time he was really Bogie.]
5) JACKIE BROWN: A Test Quentin Tarantino Didn't Pass.
6) MIAMI BLUES: An Acquired Taste for Irony.
7) A Winner Among the 8,000,000 Stories in the NAKED CITY! [One of the most influential commercial films.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2399-4B4E93E-3A2720D8-prod1
8) PRIZZI'S HONOR: John Huston's Parody of THE GODFATHER.
9) Each of us Is a SEXY BEAST (in a Way).
http://www.epinions.com/content_27422527108
10) SNATCH -- Lock, Stock and . . . Wanna Buy a Dog?
* * * Documentaries --
1) THE BATTLE OF SAN PIETRO -- A Too Brief Review of a Great Short War Documentary. [Still, even in a bowderlized form, one of the best pictures of what War is about.]
2) F FOR FAKE Is a Reel Funny and Moving Thing! [A rare film under Welles' complete control.]
3) HELL HOUSE: A Curious Paradigm for America in 2000, More So To day.
4) THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANK GREENBERG Reflected Our Progress.
5) THE MAN WHO SAW TOMORROW (1980) Was Orson Wel -- er, Nostradamus. [Welles predicts the War on Terrorism may last 27 years!]
http://www.epinions.com/content_41525546628
* * * Dramas --
1) AN AMERICAN RHAPSODY Is Not. [A child immigrant goes back to Hungary as an adult.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_39768002180
2) BEAUTIFUL Ain't. [Beauty pageants.]
3) A BEAUTIFUL MIND -- If Oliver Stone Had Directed It, They Would Call Him Crazy.
http://www.epinions.com/content_51584732804
4) BLACK AND WHITE: It's Not Easy.
5) BLACK NARCISSUS grew in England.
6) THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1944) Is Not a Bridge to Again.
7) CENTER OF THE EARTH -- Two Choices. Both Wrong!
8) What the New, Extraordinary DVD of CITIZEN KANE May Not Tell You. [One of my most read.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4874-81FD18C-38741497-bd4
9) CHAN IS (still) MISSING.
10) We All Met Once at the DINER.
10) Another Beautiful Mind Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Hidden in an ENIGMA: Posing as a Romance/Thriller.
http://www.epinions.com/content_64903417476
12) Cate Blanchett Is THE GIFT.
13) THE GODFATHER: The Saga of an American Family of Latecomers.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-570B-191D3A8-392EF5B2-prod5
14) THE GODFATHER II: The Epic (and a Half).
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-701E-296F98E-39319238-prod5
15) THE GODFATHER III: A Denouement (The Opera).
16) THE GOLDEN BOWL Is Flawed.
17) GREED Motivates an American Marriage.
18) I AM SAM -- In Human Essence, We Are Sam.
19) IN THE COMPANY OF MEN -- Not in My Company!
20) Jaglom Found The Cherry Tree LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6ABD-142251AE-3A0CB42F-prod2
21) JESUS' SON Is A -- WHAT? [Recommended sleeper.]
22) JULIUS CAESAR: "Beware the Eyes of Mason!"
23) Macresarf1 Says: "Your First Orders Are to Attend to LAST ORDERS!"
http://www.epinions.com/content_58916441732
24) THE LUZHIN DEFENSE Is in Memory.
25) "It's not raining MAGNOLIA[s], you know, it's raining . . . "
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6D27-171053E5-388A5452-prod3
26) After the MONSTER'S BALL Is Over.
http://www.epinions.com/content_55061941892
27) This ONE Was First and May Be the Best.
28) THE OTHER SISTER: She should not be forgotten. [A surprising number read the review of this small film.]
29) OUR LADY OF THE ASSASSINS: Metaphor for Why Thousands of Innocent Americans Died Recently. [I thought this review might be seen as controversial; it wasn't.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_40908590724
30) THE PERFECT STORM: The Fate of Modern Patriots.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-101C-AD6A0DA-39652EAD-prod2
31) PRAISE Is Not Quite Porno . . .
32) REQUIEM FOR A DREAM Features the Cabinet of Dr. Aronofsky. [My choice for the Best Film of 2000.]
33) ROUND MIDNIGHT Is Where It's At! [Possibly the finest theatrical film on Jazz.]
34) TEACHERS -- Starring Nick Note as Macresarf1.
35) TITUS: Life is Dreadful!
36) WAKING THE DEAD: Lost Love and Other Ideals.
37) WAR AND PEACE: Shorter than the Book, Due to Audrey Hepburn.
38) Even WONDER BOYS can run out of gas.
* * * Fantasy --
1) THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER Teach Us a Lesson. [Classic 1941 Americana, restored.]
2) EYES WIDE SHUT: I must be dreaming. When I wake was it good?
3) What Does THE FAMILY MAN Want for Christmas?
4) There Are Few HAPPY ACCIDENTS in Life. Grab This One!
http://www.epinions.com/content_41039531652
5) THE LORD OF THE RINGS Is Yet To Be Revealed.
6) MULHOLLAND DRIVE, David Lynch's Best Film in Years. [My most read review, one of the most read of Epinions Movie Reviews --My pick for the Best Film of 2001.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_41824587396
7) Leversa Loves THE THIEF OF BAGDAD. You May, Too.
* * *Film Noirs --
1) BODY HEAT lives up to its title.
2) We All Live Now . . . in CHINATOWN. [A review admired by some.]
3) CONFIDENTIAL REPORT (Christmas Write-off): Orson's Noirish Gooseliver.
4) THE KILLERS (1946): Did We All Make a Mistake . . . Once?
5) THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI: Before Evelyn, Before Judy: Elsa!
6) The Typical American Is THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE!
7) NIGHT AND THE CITY provides a shroud for the NAKED CITY. [Underrated.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2681-12306880-3884EE42-prod1
8) NOVOCAINE, as Administered by Steve Martin, Will Not Leave You Numb.
9) THE POSTMAN RINGS TWICE (1946) and then Again and Again and --!
10) TOUCH OF EVIL (1998): A Great Civil Rights Film Free at Last.
11) VERTIGO was no PICNIC, but Judy fell for Hitch in the end! [One of my better reviews, I think.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7EAA-CF91DAC-388256AE-bd1
* * * Foreign Language Films --
1) AMARCORD is Part I of Fellini's filmy Autobiography. [Italian nostalgia.]
2) AMORES PERROS -- Dog Eat Dog. [Ferocious Mexican film.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_18837900932
3) BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF -- A Missed Opportunity through Greed. [French fusion film.]
4) The Heroine of CHUNHYANG Will Not Serve Two Husbands! [Korean.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_7983697540
5) ORFEU: A Shimmering Journey from the Heights to the Depths. [Brazilian, in gorgeous color.]
6) RIFIFI (1955) Is a Bigger Rumble in RIFIFI 2000! [Dassin's last great crime film, made in France, restored.]
7) THE SWINDLE Is (and is not) RIEN NE VA PLUS. [A French film for people who do not like French films.]
8) What Is UNDER THE SAND of Life? [French, with Charlotte Rampling, one of 2001's best films.]
* * * Historical Films and Epics --
1) Scads of Information on BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE (1948)
http://www.epinions.com/content_55571287684
2) In SPARTACUS, Men See Themselves.
3) THIRTEEN DAYS Is a Long Time in the Theater.
4) TITANIC -- I'm late, I'm late, for a Very Important . . . BAD HORROR MOVIE Write-off.
* * * Horror Films --
1) THE BODY SNATCHER -- A Mystery of Science and the Soul. [In my opinion, best Horror Film ever made -- on a 50K budget.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2175-A44930D-39E130BB-prod1%A0
2) Notes on Jack and the Grape Stalk FROM HELL.
3) THE NINTH GATE Reveals not THE MALTESE FALCON nor THE DEVILS.
4) SHADOW OF A VAMPIRE: Misleading Shadow of a Great Film.
* * * Military Adventure --
1) THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE -- Into the Future? [This scenario begins to look Now, too.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_45186256516
BEAU GESTE: A Grand Boy's Adventure Story.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2B82-434353B-3935B413-prod5
2) Two Cheers for THE FOUR FEATHERS (1939). [Will remake have an "American Taliban"?]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5CA4-2404EF76-39F64381-prod3
3) THE GLADIATOR May Be Too Up Close and Impersonal.
4) GUNGA DIN -- All That Is Old Does Become New . . . . [And another film ripe for Afghanistan!]
http://www.epinions.com/content_44456447620
5) THE PATRIOT: No Nazis? Try the British!
* * * Military Drama --
1) A Quick Attack on THE LAST CASTLE.
2) PATTON: A Torn Picture of America's Great Field General.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-678F-C76E7A8-38810957-bd1
3) Have a Guiness with Your TUNES OF GLORY!
4) ZULU DAWN Will Suggest the Limitations of Military Thinking. [Underrated.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6FA8-8321C93-38613760-prod5
* * * Musicals Films --
1) ALMOST FAMOUS: Almost the Great Movie of Rock and Roll.
2) The Lone Assassins Take Charlie Sheen to Meet Marilyn Monroe at the MOULIN ROUGE.
3) "She's a flame!" in THE RED SHOES. [My pick as the most complete piece of Film Art ever made.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-6FFA-8A3D9A5-389B6CC3-prod1
4) SINGIN' IN THE RAIN: the American Movie Musical Raised to the Level of True Art.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2BF8-C74628-3887549F-bd1
5) TOPSY-TURVY: Gilbert and Sullivan as Stan and Ollie?
http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html?cid=1144380&update=1
6) "For Cagney's YANKEE DOODLE DANDY . . . ." [My first Epinion.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-3F14-4187D0-385FF00D-bd4
* * * Films of Politics and Economics --
1) There are three reasons to see ALL THE KING'S MEN:
2) AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD Is Dangerous Business. [The politics of Evangelism?]
3) Director George Hickenlooper Reaches for THE BIG BRASS RING of Orson Welles.
http://www.epinions.com/content_28860059268
4) THE CONTENDER -- Mrs. Hanson Goes to the White House.
5) CRADLE WILL ROCK: Tim Robbins' History of Why We Are Suckers. [A film few saw, but more have liked since.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2F84-93E8FE-38629B57-bd1
6) ERIN BROCKOVICH: A Different Review. [Enron Evil Ones take note.]
7) GIANT is its name, and Gargantuan it is!
8)JFK: A Criminal Investigation Is Not a Movie.
9) HURRICANE -- Denzel Washington scores in a true story of spiritual growth.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-66F8-54B0B51-3863EB0A-prod1
10) WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? No one! We continue to live in a drizzling fog! [Perhaps the best film on The Vietnam War.]
* * * Romantic Films --
1) AGNES BROWNE: More Ford than Huston.
2) THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA Has Grown Tired.
3) GILDA made Rita Hayworth a Film Goddess.
4) PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN: Calamity and Hope United. [A rediscovered pleasure.]
5) THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES --The Professional Life of Billy Wilder?
6) TWO FOR THE ROAD is one of the best films about marriage.
7) There's a "Hitchcockian" Complex Romance UP AT THE VILLA.
* * * Sci-Fi Films --
1) MS from PLANET OF THE APES Found in a Bottle.
2) QUEST FOR FIRE: Just what it says, but entirely different!
* * * Silent Films --
1) CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1925): One of the First Great Color Films. [French, English subtitles.]
2) FAUST: Be Careful What You Ask For. [German, English subtitles.]
3) THE GOLD RUSH:Grown up, grown tired of those Chaplin clips?
4) Look for DRACULA (1922) under NOSFERATU. [German, English subtitles.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-4F2E-56CFE2-38BEC376-bd3
5) THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC: Movie As Religious Experience? [French, English subtitles.]
* * * Spy Films --
1) THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE had a life of its own.
2) DR NO? Yes . . . but No!
3) THE TAILOR OF PANAMA -- How Greene was Le Carre?
* * * Sports Films --
1) The Will of ALI.
2) GIRLFIGHT Is an "indie" to Support.
* * * Teenagers in Film --
1) Rob Brown, FINDING FORRESTER, Discovers Sean Connery.
2) This GHOST WORLD Is Flat and Garishly Colored -- But That's the Point!
http://www.epinions.com/content_33281183364
3) MY FIRST MISTER -- And Never Again!
http://www.epinions.com/content_43028156036
4) We May Have Read THE PRINCESS DIARIES Too Many Times Before.
5) Our Unsold Teenagers Become THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.
* * * Thriller/Suspense Films --
1) Watch Out! Or THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL Will Get You! [A far-fetched film which does not seem so now.]
2) MEMENTO -- Reminder? Promise? Warning? Or Simply a Souvenir?
http://www.epinions.com/content_15398178436
3) THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Is the Most Popular Game in Town!
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7445-739C4BF-39FF872B-prod1
4) THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY -- Is Mr Ripley talented enough? [Little read.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-7C06-2EB8A72-388CC7CE-prod1
* * * TV Mini-series --
1) I, CLAUDIUS, a Soap Opera That Makes Roman History Painless.
2) In the end of I, CLAUDIUS Is His Beginning.
3) I, CLAUDIUS, V. 6: Livia Poisons . . . Caligula Eviscerates!
4) MOBY DICK (1997): The Search Goes On!
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-2F6C-173B6D0C-3A14A29E-prod2
* * * War Films --
1) COME AND SEE the Meaning of Christmas When It's Tough. [One of the finest films about WWII.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-678F-C76E7A8-38810957-bd1
2) Macresarf1 Has No Choice But to Order You to PEARL HARBOR.
3) STALINGRAD: A few words on the best action film about WW II.
* * * Westerms --
1) BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, or Bob Altman's History Lesson.
2) [BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID] -- Butch and Me: Truth Is Stranger . . .
3) THE CLAIM Remains Unredeemed.
4) Huston: Surrealist in THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JUDGE ROY BEAN.
5) THE SEARCHERS -- Classic Director John Ford Corrects His Myth.
6) WILD BILL Was Perhaps Wild but also All Too Human.
7) THE WILD BUNCH, despite its brutality, is probably the greatest Western ever made. [The Director's Cut.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1C3E-8E50B88-386D234B-prod1
8) THE SEARCHERS: Classic Director John Ford Corrects His Myth.
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-1DB8-465ACD-385FFC67-bd4
9) An Undiscovered Masterpiece in Blake Edwards' WILD ROVERS. [The Director's Cut.]
* * * * * * * * SAN FRANCISCO RESTAURANTS * * * * * * * *
1) You will not taste wormwood at San Francisco's ABSINTHE in "Hayes Valley." [French.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-20B8-4A3549-388DE5C9-bd3
2) Macresarf1 Actually Finds an Expensive Restaurant in San Francisco Worth the Money: ACQUERELLO. [Italian.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_40036437636
3) ALI BAB'S CAVE fills a need for lamb in the Lower Haight. [Morrocan.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-2643-56D116-38921842-prod4
4) ALL YOU KNEAD Is No Longer Quite All You Knead. [American Hippie.]
http://www.epinions.com/mvie-review-5268-3FD86FE-388F8544-prod1
5) Hurry to ANDALE TAQUERIA in the Marina. [Mexican/Spanish.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-44C0-5752A91-389346FB-prod1
6) APERTO Is Open Near San Francisco Bay. [Italian.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_42423520900
7) More Seafood, Less AQUA! [French Seafood]
8) I Failed to Find MY MOTHER'S COURAGE, But I Discovered AVENUE NINE! [Californian Cuisine.]
9) THE BEACH CHALET: Seaside Beer Garden, Museum, and Hot Spot. [German/American.]
10) The once Golden BALBOA CAFE still draws Prospectors. [Californian Cuisine]
11) BISTRO CLOVIS is not what it was. [French.]
12) Did Mozart and Don Juan Know about BISTRO DON GIOVANNI? [Italian.]
13) BOUDIN's: from bakery to cafe. [American.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-6B96-58B18E1-38937F22-prod1
14) THE BUENA VISTA CAFE: Hold the Coffee! [American.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-3994-5853076-38937001-prod1
15) Return to Belden Alley: The Storming of CAFE BASTILLE, July 14th 2001. [French Bistro.]
16) CAFFE SPORT: "This place is great, this place is . . . [Sicilian.]
17) "Rosso, rosso, always rosso at CAFFE STELLE DELLE. [Sicilian.]
18) THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY Requires a Re-designed Production Line. [American Brunch/Dinner Chain.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_41893465732
19) THE CRESCENT CITY CAFE: Good Cajun Food at Half the Money! [Cajun-Creole.]
20) THE ELITE CAFE Is Where the Cajuns Meet to Eat! [Cajun-Creole.]
21) Expect a warm Bayside welcome at 42 DEGREES. [American- Californian Cuisine.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-5E9A-5CBFA0-388E1540-bd3
22) FUZIO: A Blend or a Mess. [Italian-Asian.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_54556200580
23) THE GRANADA CAFE: (Don't Tell Anyone But Your Best Friend.) [Italian.]
24) HAMBURGER MARY'S: The Old Girl Is Gone! [Now called Harvey's SOMA.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-2C39-608AF8-38923128-prod4
25) HUNAN: Wherever you find it is good. [My Favorite Chinese place in the City.]
26) KULETO'S: Bringing the Past Properly Up to Date. [Californian-Italian.]
27) Eating at THE LITTLE CITY ANTIPASTI BAR and hearing Fran Foston in the same evening! [A lost favorite!]
28) The Meet with BAMBO-BAMBO Was at the Other LITTLE HENRY'S!
http://www.epinions.com/content_57286954628
29) THE MAD DOG [in the Fog] is everybody's home away from home in the Haight. [English Pub Food.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-4F9B-17F555C-3890FD23-bd3
30) MARTIN MACK'S BAR AND RESTAURANT: Any Snug When You're on the Run! [Irish Pub Food.]
31) Time on My Hands with the Delacortes at MANORA's Thai Cuisine. [Thai.]
32) THE MOONRAKER in a Cold Light of a tanster Brunch WRITE-OFF! [American, for Brunch and Suset Dinner.]
33) NIRVANA -- Mangoes, Mangoes Everywhere, and Quite a lot to Eat. [Burmese.]
34) Macresarf1's New Discovery #1: The Charming O MYTHOS GREEK TAVERN.
http://www.epinions.com/content_72514702980
35) Catch Up With New and Old History at the OLD KRAKOW CAFE. [Polish]
36) ORIGINAL JOE'S Was the First of a Vanishing Breed. [Italian]
37) Birds of Passage Fly Macresarf1 to THE ORIGINAL OLD CLAM HOUSE. [San Franciscan Seafood.]
38) PIAF'S: Lights! Camera! Paris! [French.]
39) "O, What a PICARO and Peasant Slave
http://www.epinions.com/content_61662006916
40) PIER 23 CAFE SCENE OF EPINIONATOR PARTY! READ ALL ABOUT IT!! [San Franciscan Seafood.]
41) Exotic Seafood found at PJ'S OYSTERBED for a Price. [Cajun-Creole Californian Cuisine.]
42) Make a Splash at PLOUF! [French Bistro.]
43) Macresarf1's New Discovery #1: The Charming O MYTHOS GREEK TAVERN.
http://www.epinions.com/content_72514702980
44) POWELL'S PLACE draws people from all over the world. [Soul Food]
45) A Friendly SALUTE for This San Rafael Ristorante. [California Italian.]
46) SAM'S GRILL -- When San Francisco Was San Francisco. [San Francisco Seafood.]
47) SPARKY'S has an American sparkle, day or night. [American 24 Hour Restaurant -- the best in the City.]
48) THE STRAITS CAFE -- Singapore Dominates the Geary Corridor. [Malaysian.]
48) SWEET HEAT in the Afternoon of Cinco de Mayo. [Mexican.]
50) TERRA BRAZILIS Is a Land You Will Want to Visit! [Brazilian.]
51) They Won't Buffalo You at TOMMY'S JOYNT. [American -- Famous for Buffalo Stew.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-EDF-3B86CE8-3970F528-prod1
52) Miranda Shows Me How the Other Ten Percent Live at TOMMY TOY'S. [Classic Cantonese.]
53) THE ZODIAC CLUB: Dine by Bell, Book and Candle! [Eclectic -- a dot.com favorite -- Note: it has now become AMBER, a cocktail lounge, under the same management.]
http://www.epinions.com/rest-review-7CE7-63F89BA-39B5AF2A-prod1
54) Little need to be said about ZUNI, and it's all good. [California Cuisine.]
* * * * * * * * * TRAVEL AND HOTELS * * * * * * * * *
1) AIR FRANCE: From San Francisco with love.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-2FC7-508A21C-389E204B-prod2
2) THE ATLANTIS: A Tropical Sea Castle in the Reno Deserts
3) Would you be so kind as to direct me to BURBERRY'S?
4) On the Trail of Sam Spade: Checking Out Burritt Alley [San Francisco].
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-27BD-11FFECC4-397783B4-prod2
5) THE CAL NEVA: A Bit of Old Reno.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-22CE-9926974-38E11BEC-prod4
6) The Edinburgh Castle is far out [San Francisco].
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-7EA5-2D4F218-388C8DF4-prod1
7) THE 43rd SAN FRANCISCO FILM FESTIVAL: A Stellar Attraction.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-4862-101E635A-38F4210D-prod5
8) THE HAIGHT -- You love it or you hate it [San
Francisco].
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-4AAA-15651EF5-38860E6C-prod2
9) Do you know the way to . . . HALF MOON BAY [California]?
10) "My Favorite Vacation" Write-off: MAZATLAN, Mexico.
http://www.epinions.com/content_1172938884
11) Orson's d'Orsay. [Paris].
12) THE PEPPERMILL HOTEL CASINO is a standout in Reno.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-1861-3E526E9-389B3499-prod5
13) A trip to the Wine Country need not cost the Good Earth.
http://www.epinions.com/fddk-review-2B79-1528A7A-38949F11-prod3
14) 2 Days in the Valleys of The Wine Country: A Ramble.
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-B7F-B4ACC80-39C298C4-prod1
* * * * * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS * * * * * * * * *
1) COQ AU JASON: The Real Deal in a Quick Meal. [A favorite recipe by my Son.]
2) Better not let Tabasco hear you say she's a "Silly Pet"! [Friskies for a Senior Cat.]
http://www.epinions.com/content_25104256644
3) HSX -- FLASH! Epinions Feed . . . Margin . . . Need More Margin![Gamble safely on future Movie Hits.]
4) ZIP ZAP! Delilahs Shear Your Hair in the Hippie HAIGHT. [The hair cut and the shop are a trip.]
http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-106C-E56FA37-38ED507A-prod4
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11/7/09: Another Bloody November.
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