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

Movies Watched -- About Dry Grasses (2023)

In Turkish. 197 minute running time. That’s right THREE HOURS AND SEVENTEEN MINUTES long. Nuri Bilge Ceylan has basically made the same movie over and over and over again. I loved Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, that was his best movie, and probably the only one of his movies you need to see. About Drying Paint is one you can miss. Talk talk talk talk talk talk. And the protagonist was a real bastard, there’s no identifying with this guy. He’s just a prick. Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk. Dorm-room philosophizing, spare me already, geez, come on. Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk.

What the Large Print Giveth, The Small Print Taketh Away

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The Atlantic's List of Great American Novels

The Atlantic put out a list of books they consider The Great American Novels. They were very careful to include black authors and Hispanic authors and Injun authors and Asian authors and women authors and black women authors.

I’ve ordered their list by the author’s birth date.

1. 1888 - The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler 1939

2. 1890 - Amiable With Big Teeth Claude McKay 2017 (black)

3. 1896 - The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925

4. 1871 - An American Tragedy Theodore Dreiser 1925

5. 1873 - Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather 1927

6. 1874 - The Making of Americans Gertrude Stein 1925

7. 1891 - Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1937 (black)

8. 1891 - Passing Nella Larsen 1929 (black)

9. 1892 - Nightwood Djuna Barnes 1936 (lesbian)

10. 1896 - U.S.A. John Dos Passos 1937

11. 1896 - A Time to Be Born Dawn Powell 1942

12. 1897 - The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner 1929

13. 1897 - Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner 1936

14. 1898 - East Goes West Younghill Kang 1937 (Korean)

15. 1899 - Lolita Vladimir Nabokov 1955

16. 1899 - Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov 1962

17. 1899 - A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929

18. 1899 - Charlotte’s Web E. B. White 1952

19. 1902 - The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck 1939

20. 1903 - The Day of the Locust Nathanael West 1939

21. 1904 - In a Lonely Place Dorothy B. Hughes 1947

22. 1905 - All the King’s Men Robert Penn Warren 1946

23. 1908 - The Street Ann Petry 1946 (black)

24. 1908 - Native Son Richard Wright 1940 (black)

25. 1909 - Ask the Dust John Fante 1939

26. 1912 - The Group Mary McCarthy 1963

27. 1914 - Invisible Man Ralph Ellison 1952 (black)

28. 1915 - The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow 1953

29. 1915 - The Zebra-Striped Hearse Ross Macdonald 1962

30. 1915 - The Mountain Lion Jean Stafford 1947

31. 1916 - The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson 1959

32. 1917 - Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks 1953 (black)

33. 1917 - A Contract With God Will Eisner 1978

34. 1917 - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers 1940 (lesbian)

35. 1917 - A Summons to Memphis Peter Taylor 1986

36. 1918 - A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle 1962

37. 1919 - The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger 1951

38. 1920 - Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury 1953

39. 1921 - Deep Water Patricia Highsmith 1957

40. 1922 - On the Road Jack Kerouac 1957

41. 1922 - Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut 1969

42. 1923 - Desperate Characters Paula Fox 1970

43. 1923 - Catch-22 Joseph Heller 1961

44. 1923 - No-No Boy John Okada 1957 (Japanese)

45. 1924 - Another Country James Baldwin 1962 (black)

46. 1924 - Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin 1956 (black)

47. 1924 - Peyton Place, Grace Metalious 1956

48. 1925 - A Sport and a Pastime James Salter 1967

49. 1928 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick 1968

50. 1928 - Divorcing Susan Taubes 1969

51. 1929 - The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin 1974

52. 1931 - Beloved Toni Morrison 1987 (black)

53. 1931 - Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 1977 (black)

54. 1931 - Sula Toni Morrison 1973 (black)

55. 1932 - The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath 1963

56. 1932 - Couples John Updike 1968

57. 1933 - Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy 1985

58. 1933 - The Dog of the South Charles Portis 1979

59. 1933 - Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth 1969

60. 1933 - Sabbath’s Theater Philip Roth 1995

61. 1933 - Mating Norman Rush 1991

62. 1934 - Play It as It Lays Joan Didion 1970

63. 1935 - The Revolt of the Cockroach People Oscar Zeta Acosta 1973 (Hispanic)

64. 1935 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey 1962

65. 1935 - The Shipping News Annie Proulx 1993

66. 1935 - Oreo Fran Ross 1974 (black)

67. 1936 - Underworld Don DeLillo 1997

68. 1937 - Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine Stanley Crawford 1972

69. 1937 - The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon 1966

70. 1938 - Speedboat Renata Adler 1976

71. 1938 - Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Judy Blume 1970

72. 1938 - Blonde Joyce Carol Oates 2000

73. 1938 - Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 1972 (black)

74. 1939 - The Salt Eaters Toni Cade Bambara 1980 (black)

75. 1940 - Tripmaster Monkey Maxine Hong Kingston 1989 (Chinese)

76. 1940 - Winter in the Blood James Welch 1974

77. 1942 - Little, Big: Or, the Fairies’ Parliament John Crowley 1981

78. 1943 - Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson 1980

79. 1944 - Dancer From the Dance Andrew Holleran 1978

80. 1944 - The Quick and the Dead Joy Williams 2000

81. 1945 - Geek Love Katherine Dunn 1989

82. 1947 - Dawn Octavia E. Butler 1987 (black)

83. 1947 - Kindred Octavia E. Butler 1979 (black)

84. 1947 - The Stand Stephen King 1978

85. 1948 - Oxherding Tale Charles Johnson 1982 (black)

86. 1948 - Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko 1977 (Injun)

87. 1949 - Bastard Out of Carolina Dorothy Allison 1992

88. 1949 - Stone Butch Blues Leslie Feinberg 1993 (lesbian)

89. 1949 - Dogeaters Jessica Hagedorn 1990

90. 1949 - Corregidora Gayl Jones 1975 (black)

91. 1950 - How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez 1991

92. 1951 - I Hotel Karen Tei Yamashita 2010 (Japanese)

93. 1952 - Machine Dreams Jayne Anne Phillips 1984

94. 1953 - So Far From God Ana Castillo 1993 (Hispanic)

95. 1953 - Watchmen Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons 1986

96. 1954 - Caramelo Sandra Cisneros 2004

97. 1954 - The Round House Louise Erdrich 2012

98. 1954 - Veronica Mary Gaitskill 2005

99. 1954 - Under the Feet of Jesus Helena María Viramontes 1995

100. 1955 - I Love Dick, Chris Kraus 1997

101. 1956 - Erasure Percival Everett 2001 (black)

102. 1957 - The Last Samurai Helen DeWitt 2000

103. 1957 - Perma Red Debra Magpie Earling 2002 (Injun)

104. 1958 - Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 2017

105. 1959 - I, the Divine Rabih Alameddine 2001

106. 1959 - The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 2001

107. 1962 - The Sellout Paul Beatty 2015

108. 1962 - A Visit From the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan 2010

109. 1962 - Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace 1996

110. 1963 - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon 2000

111. 1963 - The Secret History Donna Tartt 1992

112. 1964 - American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991

113. 1965 - Native Speaker Chang-rae Lee 1995 (Korean)

114. 1966 - House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 2000

115. 1967 - The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 2021 (black)

116. 1967 - The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 (subcontinental Indian)

117. 1968 - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz 2007 (Hispanic)

118. 1969 - The Intuitionist Colson Whitehead 1999 (black)

119. 1970 - A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 2014 (black)

120. 1971 - Family Life Akhil Sharma 2014 (subcontinental Indian)

121. 1971 - The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 (Vietnamese)

122. 1972 - The Fifth Season N. K. (Nora Keita) Jemisin 2015 (black)

123. 1972 - The Russian Debutante’s Handbook Gary Shteyngart 2002

124. 1975 - Open City Teju Cole 2011 (black)

125. 1977 - Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2013 (black)

126. 1977 - Salvage the Bones Jesmyn Ward 2011 (black)

127. 1978 - Fates and Furies Lauren Groff 2015

128. 1978 - Nothing to See Here Kevin Wilson 2019

129. 1979 - Nevada Imogen Binnie 2013

130. 1980 - The Old Drift Namwali Serpell 2019 (black)

131. 1982 - There There Tommy Orange 2018 (Injun)

132. 1983 - Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 (Mexican)

133. 1983 - Severance Ling Ma 2018 (Chinese)

134. 1982- No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood 2021

135. 1985 - Biography of X Catherine Lacey 2023

136. 1989 - Sabrina Nick Drnaso 2018 (comic book artist)