John Farr's List of 150 Essential Movies
Sorted first alphabetically (sort of), and then chronologically below:
A Separation (Farsi)
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French)
Bicycle Thieves (Italian)
Breathless (French)
Diabolique (French)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German)
Grand Illusion (French)
Olympia (German)
Ran (Japanese)
Rashomon (Japanese)
Rififi (French)
Rome, Open City (Italian)
Shoah (French)
The 400 Blows (French)
The Leopard (Italian)
The Sorrow and the Pity (French)
Tokyo Story (Japanese)
Wild Strawberries (Swedish)
Nanook of the North 1922
Battleship Potemkin 1925
The Gold Rush 1925
Sunrise 1927
The General 1927
City Lights 1931
Dracula 1931
Frankenstein 1931
Little Caesar 1931
Red Dust 1932
Duck Soup 1933
The Thin Man 1934
Twentieth Century 1934
Modern Times 1936
My Man Godfrey 1936
Swing Time 1936
Grand Illusion (French) 1937
The Awful Truth 1937
Bringing Up Baby 1938
Olympia (German) 1938
The Lady Vanishes 1938
Midnight 1939
Stagecoach 1939
The Wizard of Oz 1939
His Girl Friday 1940
Rebecca 1940
The Bank Dick 1940
The Grapes of Wrath 1940
The Great Dictator 1940
Citizen Kane 1941
Sullivan's Travels 1941
The Lady Eve 1941
Casablanca 1942
Woman of the Year 1942
Double Indemnity 1944
Rome, Open City (Italian) 1945
Notorious 1946
The Big Sleep 1946
Bicycle Thieves 1948
Key Largo 1948
Red River 1948
The Red Shoes 1948
Adam's Rib 1949
The Third Man 1949
White Heat 1949
All About Eve 1950
Rashomon (Japanese) 1950
Sunset Boulevard 1950
The Asphalt Jungle 1950
Strangers on a Train 1951
The African Queen 1951
High Noon 1952
Singin' in the Rain 1952
Roman Holiday 1953
Shane 1953
Tokyo Story 1953
Diabolique (French) 1954
On the Waterfront 1954
Rear Window 1954
East of Eden 1955
Mister Roberts 1955
Rififi (French) 1955
Giant 1956
The Searchers 1956
12 Angry Men 1957
Wild Strawberries 1957
Vertigo 1958
North by Northwest 1959
Rio Bravo 1959
Some Like It Hot 1959
The 400 Blows (French) 1959
Inherit the Wind 1960
Psycho 1960
The Apartment 1960
Tunes of Glory 1960
Breathless 1961
Cape Fear 1962
Lawrence of Arabia 1962
Hud 1963
The Great Escape 1963
The Haunting 1963
The Leopard (Italian) 1963
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964
Fail-Safe 1964
The Train 1964
The Sound of Music 1965
Bonnie and Clyde 1967
Cool Hand Luke 1967
The Graduate 1967
The Producers 1967
Bullitt 1968
Midnight Cowboy 1969
Salesman 1969
The Wild Bunch 1969
Harold and Maude 1971
The Godfather 1972
The Sorrow and the Pity (French) 1972
The Sting 1973
Chinatown 1974
Hearts and Minds 1974
The Conversation 1974
Dog Day Afternoon 1975
Harlan County, USA 1975
Jaws 1975
Love and Death 1975
Network 1976
Taxi Driver 1976
Annie Hall 1977
Julia 1977
The Deer Hunter 1978
Apocalypse Now 1979
Ordinary People 1980
Fanny and Alexander (Swedish, German) 1982
Gandhi 1982
Sophie's Choice 1982
The Verdict 1982
Tootsie 1982
Ran (Japanese) 1985
Shoah (French) 1985
Au Revoir, Les Enfants (French) 1987
Goodfellas 1990
Schindler's List 1993
Pulp Fiction 1994
American Beauty 1999
A Separation (Farsi) 2011
Aman Destinations with Google Maps Links
Americas & Caribbean
Europe & Africa
Aman Le Mélézin, France (French Alps) | Google Map
Amanruya, Turkey (Aegean Sea) | Google Map
Aman Sveti Stefan, Montenegro (Aegean Sea) | Google Map
Asia
Amankora, Bhutan (multiple spots in Bhutan) | Google Map
Amandira, Indonesia | Yacht to charter
Day Trading P&Ls from Catching the Top in MSTR
Look at all these big winners….
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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?
His Girl Friday 1940
Sullivan’s Travels 1941
Bicycle Thieves 1948
The Red Shoes 1948
Ace in the Hole 1951
Tokyo Story 1953
On the Waterfront 1954
The Night of the Hunter 1955
Sweet Smell of Success 1957
Pickpocket 1959
Cléo from 5 to 7 1962
Jules et Jim 1962
8½ 1963
The Battle of Algiers 1966
Persona 1966
Seconds 1966
Weekend 1967
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Wanda 1970
Sunday Bloody Sunday 1971
A Woman Under the Influence 1974
Barry Lyndon 1975
Mirror 1975
House 1977
3 Women 1977
All That Jazz 1979
Being There 1979
Repo Man 1984
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985
Down by Law 1986
Do the Right Thing 1989
My Own Private Idaho 1991
Naked 1993
Safe 1995
Ratcatcher 1999
In the Mood for Love 2000
Love & Basketball 2000
Yi Yi 2000
La Ciénaga 2001
Y tu mamá también 2001
Dastrader API Firms
Ameritrade, Inc. (Now Charles Schwab) — DAS Trader %PAT
Capital Markets Elite Group (KY) Limited %PAT (foreign)
CHOICETRADE — DAS Trader %PAT
CLEAR STREET, LLC (CenterPoint Securities) — DAS Trader not listed %PAT
COBRA TRADING, INC. — DAS Trader %PAT
Fenix Securities, LLC %PAT (Spanish speakers)
Freedom Finance Trading %PAT (foreign - Russia)
Interactive Brokers Corp. — How do I link to DAS Trader %PAT
Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC — DAS Trader not listed %PAT
ROYAL TREASURE SECURITIES LLC %PAT (foreign)
SageTrader, LLC — DAS Trader %PAT (foreign?)
Speedtrader, Inc. — DAS Trader %PAT
Success Trader (Regal Securities) — DAS Trader %PAT
VELOCITY CLEARING, LLC (Guardian Trading) — DAS Trader %PAT
Blue Bottle Coffee Shops in the Eastern Half of the United States
As of November 2024…
Boston
Chestnut Hill 33 Boylston St, Ste 3300, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Harvard Square 40 Bow St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kendall Square 88 Ames St, Suite R120, Cambridge, MA 02142
Newbury Street 163 Newbury Street, Boston, MA 02116
Chicago
Tribune Tower 435 Michigan Ave, Unit 114, Chicago, IL 60611
Wolf Point 313 W Wolf Point Plaza, Ste 120, Chicago, IL 60654
New York
Amsterdam Ave 279 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10023
Broad Street 22 Broad St, New York, NY 10005
Bryant Park 54 W 40th St., New York, NY 10018
Dean Street 85 Dean St., Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gramercy Park 257 Park Ave South, New York, NY 10010
Grand Central Place 60 E 42nd Street, Suite 140, New York, NY 10165
Greenwich Street 408 Greenwich St, New York, NY 10013
Hudson Yards 20 Hudson Yards, #228, New York, NY 10018
Midtown East 10 E 53rd Street, Entrance is on 52nd St, New York, NY 10022
Midtown North 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105
Morningside Heights 2901 Broadway, New York, NY 10025
Moynihan Train Hall 441 8th Ave, New York, NY 10001
One Penn 1 Penn Plaza, Entrance on 34th St, New York, NY 10119
Rockefeller Center 1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020
The Walker 396 Broadway, New York, NY 10013
University Place 101 University Place, New York, NY 10003
Williamsburg 76 N. 4th Street, Store A, Brooklyn, NY 11249
World Trade Center 150 Greenwich St, NW corner of Tower 4, New York, NY 10007
Washington, D.C.
Georgetown 1046 Potomac Street NW, Washington, DC 20007
Midtown Center 1100 15th St NW, Space #6, Washington, DC 20005
Union Market 1250 4th St NE, Washington, DC 20002
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.
Click to enlarge
TWG — click to enlarge
DRUG — click to enlarge
NUZE — click to enlarge
MNPR — click to enlarge
Save a Wretch from Debasement
Soom T … an Indian girl grows up in Scotland? I dig it.