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 I’m rooting for the Romans. SPQR is inscribed on all the manhole covers of Rome. Senatus S PopulusQue PQ Romanus R Legio XX Centuries later the British themselves became famous for
the line formation, the great Roman teacher. See the 1964 film, Zulu.
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555 California is the location for the 1974 film, The Towering Inferno. My brother was a tiller driver on an SFFD truck that appeared in the opening scenes, while I was a Bank of America employee on the 9th floor, not in the film. In the news video you will see a tiller and Mr. Ortiz, a witness who shot video of the falling glass. He is interviewed at the exact location where I often parked my patrol car. I recommend the movie if you like the disaster genre or movies set in San Francisco. This one gets five out of five stars, and one of them is Steve McQueen. Spoiler alert: here is the fire engine scene and more, but my brother, Tom, age 27 at the time, was not a member of the screen actor’s union, so his face could not be on screen. You can see his back at about 6:20 and his blurred face a few seconds later. His son, age 10, faced the same problem when he did a commercial with Reggie Jackson, so a fictitious name was used, my brother’s name! I think his son was paid $600.  Thomas George Dunn 1946-2017
Hitchcock films I recommend: Rebecca 1940, Lifeboat 1944, Strangers on a Train (1951), Dial M for Murder 1954, Rear Window 1954, Vertigo 1958, North by Northwest 1959, Psycho 1960, and The Birds 1963. All the films involve murder or culpability in stylish configurations. The Golden Age of Hollywood lasted roughly 40 years, maybe 1929 to 1969, becoming the all-powerful and all-pervasive style of filmmaking worldwide.
Remakes are lousy. This one has gender and race issues, and all that cutting/editing makes the head spin. But for slight of hand, magic is idiotic. Film tricks minus a story fail, but even as a child, I thought the story was lame. Zero stars.
Find out how Johann Sebastian Bach helps the Fat Man solve a case in this television drama from 1959. Writers Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts. Production company Screen Gems. Because of the surprise ending, I give it 4 1/2 stars out of five. Rita Moreno 91 I highly recommend the science fiction adventure film, Fantastic Voyage (1966). The film came to mind because one of its stars, Raquel Welch, died February 15. What I liked about her was that while she flaunted her extreme beauty, she did not take herself and appearance too seriously. Miss Welch was of Bolivian and English ancestry.
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Burgess Englishman 1917-1993 Kubrick American 1928-1999 video posted Nov. 24, 2022 Julie Driscoll, British singer/actress, sang the theme song for a British science fiction movie, Moon Zero Two (1969), which I recently watched. The film starred James Olson, a great actor who played a key role in my favorite science fiction film, The Andromeda Strain (1971). Olson died in April 2022, age 91. The set for this song is late 60’s-ish fantasy/sci fi, an eye within an eye, bewitching. This poignant 1949 UK film is based on a Christmas fantasy by D. H. Lawrence. Who runs off course? I recommend this docu-drama, which also delves into the Bella Dodd saga. Dear Murderer (1947), British film starring Eric Portman and Greta Gynt, based on a play by St. John Legh Clowes, no violence, dialog-driven with twists and turns, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, is free on YouTube.
It will create jobs for machine repairers. No. Machines will not have emotions. See below. Following is a detailed article about Mel Gibson and the possibility of Part 2. If made, it is unlikely I will see it, because Jesus' face will be on screen. I would rather see the face turned or in shadow. "Jesus Wept" by James Tissot (French), which shows Christ covering His face with His hands, is what I prefer. www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4536 Let me know if you see the film.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/passion-of-the-christ-2.html Le Barroux is in southern France and three hours from Monaco. If it is where a young American wants to go, he must go because it is his appointed home. I would give him support. Per Wikipedia, in May 2014 the Abbey had 57 members: 26 priests, 21 brothers, five novices, one deacon, one student, and one temporarily professed, with 44 being the average age, making 1970 the median birth year then.
Based On/Inspired By Translation: it is likely that what you are about to see is revisionist history, rewritten to exclude facts. That is what Hollywood is very good at doing, now, and Viola Davis is an example of selling one’s soul to the devil. The lure of wealth is too great for some. My disclaimer: I did not see the film. The amount of gratuitous violence in movies today makes me stay away. One of my short stories has a violent scene lasting 15 minutes in real time. Ironically, that scene is the one most liked by my SFPD reader. The remaining stories and the novel have little violence and focus on solving crime. Why make such a film? Being a victim feels good. You get to blame everyone else for your problems, and a film such as this one reinforces your self-pity. This attitude is the exact opposite of a proper Catholic. My religion teaches that seeking truth and justice are worthy causes, but circumstantial suffering is salvific, and one of its best practitioners is Joan of Arc.
The pandemic, so it is called, was the greatest event in modern times. Why? It sent many Catholics and non-Catholics to the Latin Mass because the Latin Mass churches never closed. Church closures were the first sign of coming oppression by totalitarian regimes and the false church. For me, neither source of persecution was easy to recognize in the beginning. I’m not sure why. However, since March 2020, events, news media, and social media cleared up any confusion I ever had. All these priests knew each other because they were educated at the same colleges, Douay and Rheims, the places that produced the first English Bible, 1582 & 1609-10.  courtesy of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales
Anna Karenina, 2012, Keira Knightley in black. Someone has a bloody lip.
A non-Catholic gave me the film, The Chosen. I put it on the bookshelf. Today, I was alerted to its horrific flaw. In this clip, Mary says about Our Lord, “He doesn’t need me anymore.” This is absolute heresy. When I saw the title of the clip, as if His birth were a mere remembrance, I knew there was something wrong. Toss the film out. The woman who gave me the film passes out her tracts. I have never said an unkind word to her. When I showed her my Missal, she asked if the Bible was in it. What did she think was in it? I know how Chopin felt, in need of air. The fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary is Jesus’s presentation at the temple and Simeon receiving Him. Published biographies of Maximus the Confessor, Venerable Maria of Agreda, and Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich each give an account of Mary’s presentation at age three and Simeon receiving. historical explication on "pure" with Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur at
https://www.catholic.com/tract/mary-ever-virgin The YouTube poster responded to my comment. He said, “Merci le puy du fou pour avoir ramener cette medaile en france cest son pays.” Translated – “Thank you le puy du fou for bringing this medal back to France, its country.” Le Puy du Fou is a tourist attraction in France. Jacob (23) chose Joan of Arc (19), France’s greatest saint, as his Confirmation name. I recommend the film, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962). The dialogue is the transcript of her trial in 1431. She outsmarted all the learned men. The medal is a ring, a silver-gilt hoop featuring the inscriptions “IHS” and “MAR” as abbreviations for Jesus and Mary and is said to have been a First Communion gift to Joan from her parents. https://www.france24.com/en/20160304-joan-arc-ring-france-england-puy-du-fou That is President Macron speaking.  |
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