Movies Watched -- Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

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In Mandarin Chinese. 125 minute running time which I’d normally say is 25 minutes too long, but I loved this movie and have seen it many times… Zhang Yimou may have been at his peak here and he had a real star in Gong Li … this is so beautifully shot. I was an exchange student in China in 1991 so I have a special connection to this movie. This is a green-go. John Farr recommends it too.

按照老规矩。。。

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  2. Alpha Trading L.P. (HERZLIYA PITUACH, 4672528 ISRAEL)

  3. Apex Clearing Corporation

  4. Archipelago Securities L.L.C.

  5. Axos Clearing LLC

  6. BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Bank of Montreal)

  7. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (Banque Nationale de Paris)

  8. Barclays Capital Inc.

  9. Bernstein Institutional Services LLC

  10. BofA Securities, Inc.

  11. Bright Trading, LLC (Bob Bright)

  12. Citadel Securities LLC

  13. Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

  14. Clear Street LLC

  15. Cowen and Company, LLC

  16. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

  17. DRW Execution Services, LLC (Donald R. Wilson)

  18. DRW Securities, LLC (Donald R. Wilson)

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  20. Dash Financial Technologies LLC

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  23. FOG Equities LLC

  24. GTS Securities LLC (Ari Rubenstein)

  25. Global Execution Brokers, LP (Susquehanna International Group)

  26. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

  27. HRT Financial LP (Hudson River Trading)

  28. Headlands Technologies Securities, LLC (Matthew Andresen, Island ECN, Citadel)

  29. IEX Services LLC (Investors Exchange)

  30. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services LLC

  31. Instinet, LLC

  32. Interactive Brokers LLC

  33. J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

  34. JAG Trading L.L.C. (Craig Evan Bauer)

  35. Jane Street Capital, LLC

  36. Jane Street Execution Services, LLC

  37. Jefferies LLC

  38. Jump Trading, LLC

  39. Kershner Securities, LLC

  40. Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc.

  41. Libucki & Co., LLC (Deborah Ann Libucki)

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  48. Pershing LLC

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  52. SRT Securities LLC (Stephen Rory Tobias founded I.A. Englander with Israel Englander in 1977)

  53. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC

  54. Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. (Canada)

  55. Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

  56. Tradebot Systems, Inc. (Dave Cummings)

  57. UBS Financial Services Inc.

  58. UBS Securities LLC

  59. Virtu Americas LLC

  60. Wedbush Securities Inc.

  61. Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC

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  63. William Blair & Company L.L.C.

  64. XTX Markets LLC

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  9. BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Bank of Montreal)

  10. BNP Paribas Securities Corp. (Banque Nationale de Paris)

  11. Barclays Capital Inc.

  12. Bay Crest Partners, LLC (Kazahkstan, Freedom Holding Corp., Timur Turlov)

  13. Bernstein Institutional Services LLC

  14. BofA Securities, Inc.

  15. Bolt-X LLC

  16. Brendan E. Cryan and Company, L.L.C.

  17. Brownstone Investment Group, LLC

  18. CBOE Trading, Inc. (Chicago Board Options Exchange)

  19. CIBC World Markets Corp. (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)

  20. CLSA Americas, LLC (Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia)

  21. Capital Institutional Services, Inc.

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  27. Cowen and Company, LLC

  28. Credit Agricole Securities (USA) Inc.

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  31. Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.

  32. Dash Financial Technologies LLC

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  36. Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P.

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  54. Interactive Brokers LLC

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  104. TradeStation Securities, Inc.

  105. TradeUp Securities, Inc. (China — UP Fintech Holding Limited, $TIGR)

  106. Tradebot Systems, Inc. (Dave Cummings)

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  36. Fusion Markets Ltd.

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  53. Mosaic Financial Ltd.

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  60. Prex Markets Limited

  61. Providence Advisors Limited

  62. Quantfury Trading Limited

  63. RBC Dominion Securities (Global) Limited

  64. Renhe Financial Services Limited

  65. RF Bank & Trust (Bahamas) Limited

  66. Scotiabank (Bahamas) Limited

  67. Seacapital Ltd.

  68. ST Global Markets Ltd.

  69. Techfin Markets Limited

  70. The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company (Bahamas) Ltd.

  71. The Private Trust Corporation Limited

  72. The Winterbotham Trust Company Limited

  73. Toredo Ltd.

  74. Trade Nation Ltd.

  75. TradeZero Inc.

  76. UCAP Bahamas Limited

  77. WG Capital Ltd. (GENG, Wen)

Movies Watched -- The Gift (2015)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

108 minute running time so just 8 minutes too long, but I liked this one a lot… it was a re-watch for me. A W.D.S. By Movie (written, directed, and starring the same guy) … Edgerton is a talented Australian and the beautiful Rebecca Hall is British … American Jason Bateman plays a great scumbag yuppie … this was well-made and a good thriller. Green-go! John Farr recommends it too.

And I want to make crazy, weird love to you, with my creepy, with my creepy little pee-pee pleasey-weasy.

Movies Watched -- Zone of Interest (2023)

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In German. 105 minute running time so a good length. I really liked Glazer’s previous movies, Sexy Beast and Under the Skin, so I was excited to see this Holocaust movie centered on the commandant of Auschwitz and his family. Unfortunately it didn’t work, it was too abstracted, too art-house.

Yes, I know Glazer wanted to keep the violence off screen and just hint at it with constant background gunshots and yelling and trains chugging and furnaces roaring and chimneys billowing smoke. But that got repetitive and quickly lost its effect.

Anyone who has seen Son of Saul knows that that was a Holocaust movie done the right way … it is breathtaking and a must-see. Zone of Interest can’t hold a candle to it.

Mick LaSalle was right to say: “it’s less a movie than a misguided work of conceptual art.”

Dick Brody correctly called Zone of Interest “an extreme form of Holokitsch.”

I agree with Manohla Dargis who says the movie is “a hollow, self-aggrandizing art-film exercise.”

And I’ll give the final word to Nicolas Rapold: “It must be said that the banality of the Höss family and the bureaucracy of genocide are no revelation, and there’s something wrongheaded in Glazer’s cold replication of their murderous perspective and peekaboo roundabout glimpses of the Nazi atrocity.”

I could have my husband spread your ashes across the fields of Babice.

Zippo Armor Toker Chips Design, No. 46144

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High-polish green, two-sided, Deep Carve … I like the dollar signs, but this simple pot leaf design makes it a pass. Spring 2024 release. $100. I did buy the Map Design in high-polish green, and also did buy No. 29834, “Piled High,” a marijuana motif design that I found more pleasing. I don’t buy every Zippo Armor that comes out; I only buy the ones that I really like.