ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Alain in August

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Showing posts with label Alain in August. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

NOTRE HISTOIRE
(English: OUR HISTORY)

Bertrand Blier
France, 1984

LE GITAN
(English: THE GYPSY)

José Giovanni
Italy/France, 1975

Monday, August 26, 2019

Theme and variations on La veuve Couderc.
Novel by Georges Simenon, film by Pierre Granier-Deferre and starring Simone Signoret and Alain Delon.

Sunday, August 25, 2019

LA VEUVE COUDERC
(English: THE WIDOW COUDERC)

Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, 1971

LA PISCINA
(English: THE SWIMMING POOL)

Jacques Deray
France, 1970

Friday, August 23, 2019

DIABOLIQUEMENT VÔTRE

(English: DIABOLICALLY YOURS)

Julien Duvivier
France, 1967

Monday, August 19, 2019

DEUX HOMMES DANS LA VILLE

[TWO MEN FROM THE CITY]

Sunday, August 18, 2019

LE CLAN DES SICILIENS

[THE SICILIAN CLAN]

Henri Verneuil
France, 1969

Thursday, August 15, 2019

LE CERCLE ROUGE

Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1970

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

L'ECLISSE

Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy-France, 1962

Monday, August 12, 2019

ROCCO E I SUOI FRATELLI
[ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS]

Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1960

Friday, August 9, 2019

BORSOLINO AND CO.

Julien Derode
France, 1974

Thursday, August 8, 2019

POUR LA PEAU D'UN FLIC

Alain Delon
France, 1981

UN FLIC
(English: DIRTY MONEY)

Jean-Pierre Melville
France, 1972

Sunday, August 4, 2019

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

____________________

Federico Fellini
Louis Malle
Roger Vadim
France/Italy, 1968

Thursday, August 1, 2019

PLEIN SOLEIL

[PURPLE NOON]

René Clément
France, 1960

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.