John Farr's List of 150 Essential Movies

Sorted first alphabetically (sort of), and then chronologically below:

1. 12 Angry Men

2. A Separation (Farsi)

3. A Streetcar Named Desire 

4. Adam's Rib

5. All About Eve

6. American Beauty

7. Angels With Dirty Faces

8. Annie Hall

9. Apocalypse Now

10. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French)

11. Bad Day At Black Rock

12. Battleship Potemkin

13. Bicycle Thieves (Italian)

14. Bonnie and Clyde

15. Breathless (French)

16. Bringing Up Baby

17. Bullitt

18. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

19. Cape Fear

20. Casablanca

21. Chinatown

22. Citizen Kane

23. City Lights

24. Close Encounters of the Third Kind

25. Cool Hand Luke

26. Diabolique (French)

27. Dog Day Afternoon

28. Double Indemnity

29. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

30. Dracula

31. Duck Soup

32. East of Eden

33. Fail-Safe

34. Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German)

35. Frankenstein

36. From Here To Eternity

37. From Russia with Love 

38. Gandhi

39. Giant

40. Goodfellas

41. Grand Illusion (French)

42. Harlan County, USA

43. Harold and Maude

44. Hearts and Minds

45. High Noon

46. His Girl Friday

47. Hud

48. In the Heat of the Night

49. Inherit the Wind

50. It Happened One Night

51. It's a Wonderful Life

52. Jaws

53. Julia

54. Key Largo

55. Kind Hearts and Coronets

56. Lawrence of Arabia

57. Little Caesar

58. Love and Death

59. Man with a Movie Camera

60. Midnight Cowboy

61. Midnight 

62. Mister Roberts

63. Modern Times

64. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

65. My Man Godfrey

66. Nanook of the North

67. Network

68. North by Northwest

69. Notorious

70. Olympia (German)

71. On the Waterfront

72. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

73. Ordinary People

74. Psycho

75. Pulp Fiction

76. Ran (Japanese)

77. Rashomon (Japanese)

78. Rear Window

79. Rebecca

80. Red Dust

81. Red River

82. Rififi (French)

83. Rio Bravo

84. Roman Holiday

85. Rome, Open City (Italian)

86. Salesman

87. Schindler's List

88. Shane

89. Shoah (French)

90. Singin' in the Rain

91. Some Like It Hot

92. Sophie's Choice

93. Stagecoach

94. Strangers on a Train

95. Sullivan's Travels

96. Sunrise

97. Sunset Boulevard

98. Swing Time

99. Taxi Driver

100. The 400 Blows (French)

101. The African Queen

102. The Apartment

103. The Asphalt Jungle

104. The Awful Truth

105. The Bank Dick

106. The Best Years of Our Lives

107. The Big Sleep

108. The Bride of Frankenstein

109. The Bridge on the River Kwai

110. The Conversation

111. The Deer Hunter

112. The French Connection

113. The General

114. The Godfather

115. The Godfather: Part II

116. The Gold Rush

117. The Graduate

118. The Grapes of Wrath

119. The Great Dictator

120. The Great Escape

121. The Haunting

122. The Lady Eve

123. The Lady Vanishes

124. The Leopard (Italian)

125. The Night of the Hunter

126. The Philadelphia Story

127. The Producers

128. The Red Shoes

129. The Searchers

130. The Shop Around the Corner

131. The Sorrow and the Pity (French)

132. The Sound of Music

133. The Sting

134. The Thin Man

135. The Third Man

136. The Train

137. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

138. The Verdict

139. The Wild Bunch

140. The Wizard of Oz

141. To Kill A Mockingbird

142. Tokyo Story (Japanese)

143. Tootsie

144. Tunes of Glory

145. Twentieth Century

146. Vertigo

147. White Heat

148. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

149. Wild Strawberries (Swedish)

150. Woman of the Year

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1. Nanook of the North 1922

2. Battleship Potemkin 1925

3. The Gold Rush 1925

4. Sunrise 1927

5. The General 1927

6. Man with a Movie Camera 1929

7. City Lights 1931

8. Dracula 1931

9. Frankenstein 1931

10. Little Caesar 1931

11. Red Dust 1932

12. Duck Soup 1933

13. It Happened One Night 1934

14. The Thin Man 1934

15. Twentieth Century 1934

16. The Bride of Frankenstein 1935

17. Modern Times 1936

18. Mr. Deeds Goes To Town 1936

19. My Man Godfrey 1936

20. Swing Time 1936

21. Grand Illusion (French) 1937

22. The Awful Truth 1937

23. Angels With Dirty Faces 1938

24. Bringing Up Baby 1938

25. Olympia (German) 1938

26. The Lady Vanishes 1938

27. Midnight 1939

28. Stagecoach 1939

29. The Wizard of Oz 1939

30. His Girl Friday 1940

31. Rebecca 1940

32. The Bank Dick 1940

33. The Grapes of Wrath 1940

34. The Great Dictator 1940

35. The Philadelphia Story 1940

36. The Shop Around the Corner 1940

37. Citizen Kane 1941

38. Sullivan's Travels 1941

39. The Lady Eve 1941

40. Casablanca 1942

41. Woman of the Year 1942

42. Double Indemnity 1944

43. Rome, Open City (Italian) 1945

44. Notorious 1946

45. The Best Years of Our Lives 1946

46. The Big Sleep 1946

47. It's a Wonderful Life 1947

48. Bicycle Thieves 1948

49. Key Largo 1948

50. Red River 1948

51. The Red Shoes 1948

52. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948

53. Adam's Rib 1949

54. Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949

55. The Third Man 1949

56. White Heat 1949

57. All About Eve 1950

58. Rashomon (Japanese) 1950

59. Sunset Boulevard 1950

60. The Asphalt Jungle 1950

61. A Streetcar Named Desire 1951

62. Strangers on a Train 1951

63. The African Queen 1951

64. High Noon 1952

65. Singin' in the Rain 1952

66. From Here To Eternity 1953

67. Roman Holiday 1953

68. Shane 1953

69. Tokyo Story 1953

70. Diabolique (French) 1954

71. On the Waterfront 1954

72. Rear Window 1954

73. Bad Day At Black Rock 1955

74. East of Eden 1955

75. Mister Roberts 1955

76. Rififi (French) 1955

77. The Night of the Hunter 1955

78. Giant 1956

79. The Searchers 1956

80. 12 Angry Men 1957

81. The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

82. Wild Strawberries 1957

83. Vertigo 1958

84. North by Northwest 1959

85. Rio Bravo 1959

86. Some Like It Hot 1959

87. The 400 Blows (French) 1959

88. Inherit the Wind 1960

89. Psycho 1960

90. The Apartment 1960

91. Tunes of Glory 1960

92. Breathless 1961

93. Cape Fear 1962

94. Lawrence of Arabia 1962

95. To Kill A Mockingbird 1962

96. From Russia with Love 1963

97. Hud 1963

98. The Great Escape 1963

99. The Haunting 1963

100. The Leopard (Italian) 1963

101. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964

102. Fail-Safe 1964

103. The Train 1964

104. The Sound of Music 1965

105. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966

106. Bonnie and Clyde 1967

107. Cool Hand Luke 1967

108. In the Heat of the Night 1967

109. The Graduate 1967

110. The Producers 1967

111. Bullitt 1968

112. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969

113. Midnight Cowboy 1969

114. Salesman 1969

115. The Wild Bunch 1969

116. Harold and Maude 1971

117. The French Connection 1971

118. The Godfather 1972

119. The Sorrow and the Pity (French) 1972

120. The Sting 1973

121. Chinatown 1974

122. Hearts and Minds 1974

123. The Conversation 1974

124. The Godfather: Part II 1974

125. Dog Day Afternoon 1975

126. Harlan County, USA 1975

127. Jaws 1975

128. Love and Death 1975

129. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975

130. Network 1976

131. Taxi Driver 1976

132. Annie Hall 1977

133. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

134. Julia 1977

135. The Deer Hunter 1978

136. Apocalypse Now 1979

137. Ordinary People 1980

138. Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German) 1982

139. Gandhi 1982

140. Sophie's Choice 1982

141. The Verdict 1982

142. Tootsie 1982

143. Ran (Japanese) 1985

144. Shoah (French) 1985

145. Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French) 1987

146. Goodfellas 1990

147. Schindler's List 1993

148. Pulp Fiction 1994

149. American Beauty 1999

150. A Separation (Farsi) 2011

Aman Destinations with Google Maps Links

Americas & Caribbean

• Amanera, Dominican Republic | Google Map

• Amanyara, Turks & Caicos Islands | Google Map

• Amangani, Wyoming, United States | Google Map

• Amangiri, Utah, United States | Google Map

• Aman New York, United States | Google Map

• Amanvari, Mexico, Opening 2025 | Google Map

• Aman Miami Beach, Opening 2026

• Aman Beverly Hills, Opening 2027

Europe & Africa

• Amanjena, Morocco | Google Map

• Aman Le Mélézin, France (French Alps) | Google Map

• Amanruya, Turkey (Aegean Sea) | Google Map

• Aman Sveti Stefan, Montenegro (Aegean Sea) | Google Map

• Aman Venice, Italy | Google Map

• Amanzoe, Greece | Google Map

• Aman Rosa Alpina, Italy, Opening 2025

• Aman Spa at The Connaught, United Kingdom

Asia

• Amankora, Bhutan (multiple spots in Bhutan) | Google Map

• Amansara, Cambodia | Google Map

• Amandayan, Yunnan, China | Google Map

• Amanfayun, Hangzhou, China | Google Map

• Amanyangyun, Shanghai, China | Google Map

• Aman Summer Palace, China | Google Map

• Amanbagh, India | Google Maps

• Aman-i-Khas, India | Google Maps

• Amandari, Indonesia | Google Maps

• Amandira, Indonesia | Yacht to charter

• Amankila, Indonesia | Google Maps

• Amanjiwo, Indonesia | Google Maps

• Amanwana, Indonesia | Google Maps

• Aman Villas at Nusa Dua, Indonesia | Google Maps

• Aman Kyoto, Japan | Google Maps

• Amanemu, Japan | Google Maps

• Aman Tokyo, Japan | Google Maps

• Aman Residences, Tokyo, Japan | Google Maps

• Amantaka, Laos | Google Maps

• Amanpulo, Philippines | Google Maps

• Amangalla, Sri Lanka | Google Maps

• Amanwella, Sri Lanka | Google Maps

• Amanpuri, Thailand | Google Maps

• Amanoi, Vietnam | Google Maps

• Aman Nai Lert Bangkok, Coming soon

• Aman Niseko, Japan, Opening 2027

Day Trading P&Ls from Catching the Top in MSTR

Look at all these big winners….

https://x.com/kenctrades/status/1859623891041386536

https://x.com/eschunk8/status/1859738591934767544

https://x.com/kycefn/status/1859623019854831893

https://x.com/kelanfar/status/1859629910270087645

https://x.com/Tradestl/status/1859684082520817833

https://x.com/Steven1_994/status/1859628058044494174

https://x.com/thelaptoplegend/status/1859642855813263686

https://x.com/traderkylec/status/1859627616493339050

https://x.com/YD_trading/status/1859625789769085397

https://x.com/madaznfootballr/status/1859721319912448076

https://x.com/TheShortBear/status/1859628933219508267

https://x.com/TheShortBear/status/1859710123360272676

Criterion Collection Top 40 Movies, Sorted Chronologically

Forty-film box set celebrates forty years of the Criterion Collection… I would not have picked a lot of these, but to each his own:

Oh my god, I already blogged this back in August and forgot about it. You dat oldz, brah?

1. His Girl Friday 1940

2. Sullivan’s Travels 1941

3. Bicycle Thieves 1948

4. The Red Shoes 1948

5. Ace in the Hole 1951

6. Tokyo Story 1953

7. On the Waterfront 1954

8. The Night of the Hunter 1955

9. Sweet Smell of Success 1957

10. Pickpocket 1959

11. Cléo from 5 to 7 1962

12. Jules et Jim 1962

13. 8½ 1963

14. The Battle of Algiers 1966

15. Persona 1966

16. Seconds 1966

17. Weekend 1967

18. Night of the Living Dead 1968

19. Wanda 1970

20. Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971

21. A Woman Under the Influence 1974

22. Barry Lyndon 1975

23. Mirror 1975

24. House 1977

25. 3 Women 1977

26. All That Jazz 1979

27. Being There 1979

28. Repo Man 1984

29. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985

30. Down by Law 1986

31. Do the Right Thing 1989

32. My Own Private Idaho 1991

33. Naked 1993

34. Safe 1995

35. Ratcatcher 1999

36. In the Mood for Love 2000

37. Love & Basketball 2000

38. Yi Yi 2000

39. La Ciénaga 2001

40. Y tu mamá también 2001

Dastrader API Firms

1. ALEXANDER CAPITAL, L.P.

2. Ameritrade, Inc. — DAS Trader

3. Capital Markets Elite Group (KY) Limited

4. CHOICETRADE — DAS Trader

5. CLEAR STREET CANADA INC.

6. CLEAR STREET, LLC — DAS Trader not listed

7. CMC Markets UK PLC — DAS Trader not listed

8. COBRA TRADING, INC. — DAS Trader

9. CURVATURE SECURITIES LLC

10. Fenix Securities, LLC

11. Freedom Finance Trading

12. Interactive Brokers Corp. — How do I link to DAS Trader

13. Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC — DAS Trader not listed

14. MOMENTIX CAPITAL, INC

15. Mondeum Capital — DAS Trader

16. OPAL SECURITIES, INC.

17. Prime Number Capital, LLC

18. ROYAL TREASURE SECURITIES LLC

19. SageTrader, LLC — DAS Trader

20. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC

21. SEVEN POINTS CAPITAL, LLC

22. Speedtrader, Inc. — DAS Trader

23. SPRINKLEBROKERAGE, INC. — DAS Trader

24. Success Trader (Regal Securities) — DAS Trader

25. T3 Trading Group, LLC — DAS Trader not listed

26. THINK ALPHA SECURITIES, LLC — DAS Trader

27. UNIVEST SECURITIES, LLC 万通证券

28. VELOCITY CLEARING, LLC — DAS Trader

29. Vision Financial Markets LLC — DAS Trader

Blue Bottle Coffee Shops in the Eastern Half of the United States

As of November 2024…

Boston

1. Chestnut Hill 33 Boylston St, Ste 3300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

2. Harvard Square 40 Bow St, Cambridge, MA 02138

3. Kendall Square 88 Ames St, Suite R120, Cambridge, MA 02142

4. Newbury Street 163 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116

5. Seaport 113 Autumn Lane, Boston, MA 02210

6. The Pru 800 Boylston Street, Suite 25, Boston, MA 02199

Chicago

1. Tribune Tower 435 Michigan Ave, Unit 114, Chicago, IL 60611

2. Wolf Point 313 W Wolf Point Plaza, Ste 120, Chicago, IL 60654

New York

1. Amsterdam Ave 279 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10023

2. Broad Street 22 Broad St, New York, NY 10005

3. Bryant Park 54 W 40th St., New York, NY 10018

4. Dean Street 85 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11201

5. Gramercy Park 257 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010

6. Grand Central Place 60 E 42nd Street, Suite 140, New York, NY 10165

7. Greenwich Street 408 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013

8. Hudson Yards 20 Hudson Yards, #228, New York, NY 10018

9. Midtown East 10 E 53rd Street, Entrance is on 52nd St, New York, NY 10022

10. Midtown North 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105

11. Morningside Heights 2901 Broadway, New York, NY 10025

12. Moynihan Train Hall 441 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001

13. NoMad 1227 Broadway, New York, NY 10001

14. One Penn 1 Penn Plaza, Entrance on 34th St, New York, NY 10119

15. Rockefeller Center 1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020

16. The Walker 396 Broadway, New York, NY 10013

17. University Place 101 University Place, New York, NY 10003

18. Williamsburg 76 N. 4th Street, Store A, Brooklyn, NY 11249

19. World Trade Center 150 Greenwich St, NW corner of Tower 4, New York, NY 10007

Washington, D.C.

1. Georgetown 1046 Potomac Street NW, Washington, DC 20007

2. Midtown Center 1100 15th St NW, Space #6, Washington, DC 20005

3. Union Market 1250 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002

4. Union Station 50 Massachusetts Ave NE, Unit M160, Washington, DC 20002

Fall From The Stars Straight Into Your Arse

You dat oldz, brah? Yeah, I remember Simply Red, and this was a GREAT 1980s song (from 1991)… Mick Hucknall had a great voice.

Day Trading Results for October 2024

I had a terrible month of day trading this October. After hitting an all-time high in my HTB account in early October, I may have become overconfident. I broke a rule on October 11 by shorting a China-based company, True Wealth Group (TWG), which resulted in an outsized loss. I typically do not short stocks of China-based companies as the price manipulation can be extreme.

This TWG loss was followed by a staggering loss in DRUG (which went up 2,000% … in a day), another outsized loss in NUZE, and a final large loss in MNPR. I’ve attached charts of each of the mentioned stocks to show what the intraday price action was like on those days that I took the losses.

On the positive side, I don’t consider any of these losses to be the result of “tilting,” which means losing emotional control and pulling stops or adding to losers in a panic. These were all correctly-sized bets which triggered hard stops when hit, though the slippage while market-exiting a couple of the positions was very large, but not unexpected.

I’m hoping I do better in November.

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Save a Wretch from Debasement

Soom T … an Indian girl grows up in Scotland? I dig it.

Forbes 400 Special Issue Magazine Cover Price Since Inception

2024: $11.99

2023: $10.99

2022: $9.99

2021: $9.99

2020: $9.99

2019: $7.99

2018: $7.99

2017: $7.99

2016: $7.99

2015: $6.99

2014: $6.99

2013: $6.99

2012: $6.99

2011: $6.99

2010: $5.99

2009: $5.99

2008: $5.99

2007: $5.99

2006: $5.99

2005: $5.99

2004: $5.99

2003: $5.99

2002: $4.99

2001: $4.99

2000: $5.95

1999: $5.95

1998: $5.95

1997: $5.95

1996: $5.00

1995: $5.00

1994: $5.00

1993: $5.00

1992: $5.00

1991: $5.00

1990: $5.00

1989: $4.75

1988: $4.75

1987: $4.50

1986: $4.50

1985: $4.00

1984: $4.00

1983: $4.00

1982: $2.50