Category Archives: Movies / TV

The Searchers – Ending Scene

November 25, 2018 – 11:00 am

Without a doubt the ending of John Ford’s THE SEARCHERS is one of the best closing scenes in a western movie or any movies when John Wayne bringing his niece home from years of being a Comanche captive. She is free, but Uncle Ethan is haunted by his ghosts. Perfection. To view this scene, please […]

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Ventemilla

October 7, 2018 – 9:19 am

The 2009 Cannes Film Festival concluded with Austrian director Haneke’s “The White Ribbon” winning the Palme d”Or for yet-another movie about the Nazis. Ten years earlier my old girlfriend Candida Romero asked, “When will that war be over?” Possibly never. ANTICHRIST had been also recognized by the Ecumenical Council as the ‘anti-film’. It was booed […]

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The End of SIMON OF THE DESERT

August 25, 2018 – 10:30 am

“Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman’s shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.” This quote was uttered by Luis Bunuel. The famed surrealistic film maker was a renown sophisticated […]

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The True Object of Desire

August 25, 2018 – 2:34 am

No one more desirable than Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel’s BELLE DU JOUR. The essence of 1967.

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THE MOLE PEOPLE

March 2, 2018 – 3:04 pm

Ten year ago I resided in Pattaya, the last Babylon. My house was on a cul-de-sac. The garden hosted orchids and flowers and a mango tree. Butterflies fluttered before my window. Birds haunted the tree. I drove a motorcycle to the beach and spent my night with the demimonde of the Buffalo Bar. I was […]

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