[ May 1, 2024 ]
Tonight’s Saturday Night Classic film is a masterpiece, the seminal The Bicycle Thief. Atlas Shruggers have long known I am an unabashed cinemaphile. I have loved old movies for as long as I can remember. Every day, I would run home to watch The 4:30 Movie, where classic films were broadcast sliced and diced to fit into a 90-minute slot (with commercials). Imagine my joy when I discovered the uncut versions years later.
I was an American film snob in my youth who had no use for European films that tried hard to out-style American greats but fell laughingly short. Until I saw the brilliant and devastating The Bicycle Thief.
This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and
most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award
as “most outstanding foreign film” seven years before that Oscar
category existed. Written primarily by neorealist pioneer Cesare
Zavattini and directed by Vittorio DeSica, also one of the movement’s
main forces, the movie featured all the hallmarks of the neorealist
style: a simple story about the lives of ordinary people, outdoor
shooting and
lighting, non-actors
mixed together with actors, and a focus on social problems in the
aftermath of World War II.Story continues below advertisement
Lamberto Maggiorani plays Antonio, an
unemployed man who finds a coveted job that requires a bicycle. When it
is stolen on his first day of work, Antonio and his young son Bruno
(Enzo Staiola) begin a frantic search, learning valuable lessons along
the way. The movie focuses on both the relationship between the father
and the son and the larger framework of poverty and unemployment in
postwar Italy. As in such other classic films as Shoeshine (1946),
Umberto D. (1952), and his late masterpiece The Garden of the
Finzi-Continis (1971), DeSica focuses on the ordinary details of
ordinary lives as a way to dramatize wider social issues. As a result,
The Bicycle Thief works as a sentimental study of a father and son, a
historical document, a social statement, and a record of one of the
century’s most influential film movements. ~ Leo Charney, Rovi
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11 years ago
Video: Arabs Gang Up on Hareidim in Jerusalem
1930s Berlin or Jerusalem, 2013? Arabs kick and humiliate Jews, videotape themselves doing it.
By Gil Ronen
First Publish: 1/12/2013, 10:02 PM
A disturbing video began circulating on Facebook Saturday evening. It shows a group of about 20 Arabs ganging up on two helpless Hareidi Jews, kicking one of them, hurling snowballs in their faces and humiliating them. At one point, one of the Jews falls to the ground, apparently slipping on the ice as he is chased up some steps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmnHkDX_IVQ&feature=player_embedded
11 years ago
And now for something thoroughly disgusting, and tasteless.
1) A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her dressing gown and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall.
She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.
“What’s the matter, dear?” she whispers as she steps into the room “Why are you down here at this time of night?” The husband looks up from his coffee “I am just remembering when we first met 20 years ago and started dating. You were only 15. Do you remember back then?” he says solemnly.
The wife is touched to tears thinking that her husband is so caring, so sensitive.
“Yes, I do” she replies. The husband pauses. The words were not coming easily. “Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?” “Yes, I remember!” said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him.
The husband continues. “Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said “Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to jail for 20 years?” “I remember that too” she replies softly.
He wipes another tear from his cheek and says… “I would have been released today”.
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2)Mick and Paddy had promised their uncle Seamus, who had been a seafaring gent all his life, to bury him at sea when he died. Of course, in due time, he did pass away and the boys kept their promise.
They set off with Uncle Seamus all stitched up in a burial bag and loaded onto their rowboat. After a while Mick says “Do yer tink dis is fer enuff out, Paddy?” Without a word Paddy slips over the side only to find himself standing in water up to his knees”. Dis’ll never do, Mick.
Let’s row some more”. After a bit more rowing Paddy slips over the side again but the water is only up to his belly, so they row on.
Again Mick asks Paddy “Do yer tink dis is fer enuff out Paddy?” Once again Paddy slips over the side and almost immediately says “No dis’ll neva do”. The water was only up to his chest.
So on they row and row and row and finally Paddy slips over the side and disappears. Quite a bit of time goes by and poor Mick is really getting himself into a state when suddenly Paddy breaks the surface gasping for breath.
“Well is it deep enuff yet, Paddy?” “Aye ’tis… now hand me dat shovel!” Q
11 years ago
3) After weeks of experiencing the hot, sweaty foliage… coming across countless creepy crawlies and other vile creatures, surviving only on the bugs around me… I’ve finally found Roseanne Barr’s clitoris.
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4) I just finished reading a news article about Hillary’s hospitalisation for a blood clot in her head, presumably as a result of the concussion of a couple of weeks ago. A blogger wrote that he’d overheard a reporter asking Bill about the situation. Reporter: “Bill how is Hillary’s head?” Bill “Well, she’s no Monica but I’ve got no complaints”.
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5)While I was driving to work I saw a girl texting on her phone while driving! I was disgusted so I lowered my window and threw my beer at her.
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6) My sister-in-law sat on my glasses and broke them. It was my own fault. I should have taken them off.
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7) A blonde goes to her local pet store in search of an ‘exotic’ pet. As she looks about the store, she notices a box FULL of frogs. The sign says: ‘SEX FROGS’ Only $20 each! Come with ‘complete’ instructions.
The girl excitedly looks around to see if anybody’s watching her. She whispers softly to the man behind the counter “I’ll TAKE one!” As the man packages the frog, he quietly says to her “Just follow the instructions!” The blonde nods, grabs the box, and is quickly on her way home.
As soon as she closes the door to her apartment, she opens the instructions and reads them very carefully and does EXACTLY what is specified:
1. Take a shower.
2. Splash on some nice perfume.
3. Slip into a very sexy nightie.
4. Crawl into bed and place the frog down beside you, and allow the frog to do what he has been trained to do.
She then quickly gets into bed with the frog and to her surprise. NOTHING happens! The blonde is very disappointed and quite upset at this point. She re-reads the instructions and notices at the bottom of the paper it says ‘If you have any problems or questions… please call the pet store. So, she does. The man says “I’ll be right over”.
Within minutes, the man is ringing her doorbell. The blonde welcomes him in and says “See, I’ve done everything according to the instructions. The damn frog just SITS there!” The man, looking very concerned, picks up the frog, stares directly into its eyes and STERNLY says: ‘LISTEN TO ME!! I’m only going to show you how to do this ONE MORE TIME…’
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8) Linda, a blonde, and Jill were chatting over coffee. Said Linda “I’ve been experiencing a strange and painful side effect from coffee. I’m fine when I drink it black, but if I use cream, or sugar, or both I get a stabbing pain in one eye”. Linda took a sip of her coffee. “Owwwww!” she cried. “There it goes again!” Jill says, “take the spoon out of your cup”. Q
11 years ago
MAO2169….are you lost, you can’t find the exit? Dementia?
11 years ago
Tonight you’re mine completely You give your love so sweetly Tonight the light of love is in your eyes But will you love me tomorrow?
Is this a lasting treasure Or just a moment’s pleasure? Can I believe the magic of your sighs? Will you still love me tomorrow?
Tonight with words unspoken You say that I’m the only one But will my heart be broken When the night meets the morning sun?
I’d like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of So tell me now, and I won’t ask again Will you still love me tomorrow?
So tell me now, and I won’t ask again Will you still love me tomorrow? Will you still love me tomorrow? Will you still love me tomorrow?
11 years ago
It was absolutely wonderful to meet you at the MD CAN conference yesterday! You are truly a warrior in the quest to expose the “religion of peace” for what it really is, creeping Sharia in our courts, and the blatent infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in our government. It is truly terrifying. Here is a link to a fantastic clip that illuminates how our country’s foundational pillars have been eroded and replaced with the tenants of socialism as the ideal societal construct.
“Grinding America Down”
http://vimeo.com/52009124
All the best and thank you for fighting to keep our country free!
11 years ago
Shalom,
God works in mysterious ways. Tonight I watched this movie and felt led to pass it along to you. The USA really has become Nazi Germany and Obama is Hitler.. I hope you enjoy the movie, and hope its not too mashugana for you. But we are living in crazy times. Much like Berlin in Hitlers day. God orders our steps. And God continue to bless you for what you do for his people amen
Ingmar Bergman – The Serpent’s Egg (1977)
„If I had created the city of my dreams, a city that does not exist and never has, and yet manifests itself acutely with smells and loud sounds, if I had created that city, not only would I have been moving in it with total freedom and an absolute sense of belonging but also, more important, I would have brought the audience with me into an alien but secretly familiar world. In The Serpent’s Egg, however, I ventured into a Berlin that nobody recognized, not even I.”
Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern
http://youtu.be/ztkdClIXRGI < Full Movie here(no commercials)
Abel Rosenberg
breath of God on a rose covered mountain
11 years ago
On a lighter note lml! Go Army of God!
Ingmar Bergman – In the Presence of a Clown(devil)
http://youtu.be/Cj2-T8GBWaM < Full (no commercials)
1Samuel 17:26 And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
11 years ago
Ingmar Bergman – In the Presence of a Clown
@ 40:29 “I must put up a new poster” LOL
