In French … 188 minute running time, yes, my friends, a self-indulgent French movie that runs over three hours long … it’s about a crazy French girl with a giant mouth and her boyfriend who has an above-average size penis and great abs … I didn’t make it very far in before going to fast forward … it looked like it may have been fun or funny in parts, but three hours long, sweet Jesus … this is a total avoid
Sleepy warm slug...
I love Uwade’s voice … Columbia class of ‘21, now at Oxford … “she was raised listening to the likes of Fela Kuti and Sir Victor Uwaifo….”
Janne Schra (Dutch) with What I Really Want To Do … I dig it:
Penguin put out this nice list, which I’ve rearranged here chronologically:
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm (1812)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1843)
The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (1863)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (1884)
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (1877)
The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (1888)
The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888)
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner (1898)
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (1898)
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit (1907)
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery (1908)
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck by Beatrix Potter (1908)
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (1911)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
Winnie-The-Pooh by A. A. Milne (1926)
Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (1929)
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein (1937)
A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley (1939)
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1943)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945)
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith (1948)
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (1950)
My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards & Shirley Hughes (1952)
The Complete Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952)
Brother Dusty-Feet by Rosemary Sutcliff (1952)
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White (1952)
The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
Mrs Pepperpot Stories by Alf Proysen (1956)
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier (1956)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith (1956)
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce (1958)
Paddington: Please Look After This Bear & Other Stories by Michael Bond (1958)
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1961)
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (1962)
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (1963)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1964)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein (1964)
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle & Bill Martin Jr (1967)
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines (1968)
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
Ladybird Tales: Sleeping Beauty by Vera Southgate (1968)
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer (1969)
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien (1970)
Watership Down by Richard Adams (1972)
The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy (1974)
Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1975)
Dogger by Shirley Hughes (1977)
The Twits by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1980)
George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1981)
Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian (1981)
The BFG by Roald Dahl (1982)
Matilda by Roald Dahl & Quentin Blake (1988)
Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl (1989)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie (1990)
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman (1995)
Zagazoo by Quentin Blake (1998)
Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman (2001)
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (2002)
The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett (2003)
The Spook's Apprentice by Joseph Delaney (2004)
Biggles and Co. by W. E. Johns (2004)
The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall (2005)
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan (2005)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (2005)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne (2006)
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons & Ursula Lyons (2008)
Nation by Terry Pratchett (2008)
Wonder by R. J. Palacio (2012)
Turtles All The Way Down by John Green (2017)
128 minute running time so at least 30 minutes too long … I like some of Sean Baker’s stuff but this one didn’t work … it was too long and the “story” was weak and ultimately pointless .. the ageing porn star was far too intelligent and articulate, it did’t ring true at all … and what are we supposed to think about him? He’s a terrible, manipulative guy, or just a pathetic goofball? He can’t be both. There is no way I can recommend this one, give it a miss.
Kathleen Sachs gets it right: “There is indeed f*ckin’, fightin’, and full-frontal nudity to be found in Baker’s overlong, ragtag character study of a suitcase pimp going home to Texas City after falling from stardom in the porn industry. But what it dispenses in salaciousness fails to account for the lack of any meaningful undercurrent that might make the vulgarity interesting.”
Alison Willmore writes: “The always-admired ability to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and keep going has never looked so depressing."
Dick Brody also wasn’t thrilled.
Junk swinging in Texas City
Xiomara with Chardonnay, I dig it:
100 minute running time … I’m on a Sean Baker kick since I liked both Tangerine and Take Out, but this movie needed subtitles to understand what was going on, so I quickly went to fast forward with it. Prince Adu is a beautiful man from Ghana, but I can’t understand a word he says. I’ll try again once the new DVD is released with subtitles.
Time for a nose wipe, Dad
Start at 12:25 for Still Dreaming by Raveena … I dig it:
In Chinese. 87 minute running time so the perfect length … a day in the life of a Chinese food delivery guy (illegal alien) in Manhattan … pretty grim but I really enjoyed this and am surprised I never heard about the movie before now (made in 2004!) … the movie was made by an androgynous guy named Sean Baker and his Taiwanese girlfriend (?) Shih-Ching Tsou for a grand total of $3,000 .. this is a green-go, recommended movie.
I see now that Baker went on to make Tangerine (which I also loved) and The Florida Project (which I hated), and a couple other movies that I’ve never seen and have added to the queue.
You have to smile!
112 minute running time so maybe 20 minutes too long … this was a Vin Diesel thing … it didn’t look super terrible, but I just wasn’t in the mood for it … the cute Australian lead actress kept on slipping in and out of her American accent which I found charming … crash landing on a planet that happens to have a wonderful atmosphere and oxygen, what a great coincidence. I wasn’t into it.
Sure, send the most beautiful member of the crew down into the creepy monster hole
