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Monday, February 8, 2010

WRIGHT WRITES RIGHT.

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty,
you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

~ Frank Lloyd Wright and Absolutely*Kate

The SuperBowl has passed. So has winter. This season is now and hereby officially declared PRELUDE. Join me, will you . . . in the under-40'day countdown to all which SPRINGS within?

Thanks. More Double*Features shall tomorrow-on, Tuesday, AT THE BIJOU. Ahhh, but today, a Monday which lets in gentle genteel reflection?

That's some Monday indeed.

Namaste,

~ Absolutely*Kate

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HEY TOOTS! I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S PLAYIN' AT THE BIJOU

Once upon a read . . . AT THE BIJOU came to pretty, not gritty Web*City. The streets were paved with the stuff that dreams were chock full of, and chock full suffered no fool with a pour-out of tantalizing, sensationalizing, and when more than just a little knee was shown ~ some say, down right nouveau nubile scandalizing. Vaudeville did more than take the next stage outta town (ba dum dum) . . . it was harbinger to herald what good showcasing was all about ~ tender tale'ing talents and a moxie mix of characters. Some shifty, some meritorious. Now the authors 'splaining the nature, plot summary and POV of such characters? Well hell, they're all glorious. That's why they're here, those that believe in believers and bring along a mighty good write on Double*Feature Tuesdays and Thursdays to light up your eye'places. Such is the history vs mystery of a bijou ~ the name itself is French for "gem, jewel, something precious" ... and glimmer*sparkle it surely does ~ from a popular entertainment venue of merry moments to touring companies of fellow writers and auditions to behold this side of bold. Serious provo'katives lend ponder to what really matters and we realize Life itself is too sweet for any sour notes or clatters. Casey will dance with the strawberry blond, and the band ... plays ... on. Ditty, hum, (never hum-drum), lyric, lilt, sung to the hilt, (and up the kazoo), ode, opus, and in a Mayberry state of kind mind, even Opie too. Generous natures and spirited thoughts, what concepts bring and hearts begot. Drama divine and aw shoot - there go the crime scenes, who-dun-its and fantasies so fast that fiction flashes . . . festivities, film and even car crashes. Tender, touching and poignant too, with laughter ever after ~ the only way for You. You'll find it all AT THE BIJOU Writers' Raves for Readers' Faves

THE TOP 100 FILMS OF ALL TIME? Really? So, how many have YOU seen? Huh?

1. The Godfather - (1972, Francis Ford Coppola) (Marlon Brando, Al Pacino)

2. Citizen Kane - (1941, Orson Welles) (Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton)

3. Casablanca - (1942, Michael Curtiz) (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)

4. Gone With the Wind - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable)

5. Seven Samurai - (1959, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Toshiro Mifune)

6. Wizard of Oz - (1939, Victor Fleming) (Judy Garland, Ray Bolger)

7. On the Waterfront - (1954, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Carl Malden, Rod Steiger)

8. The Bridge on the River Kwai - (1957, David Lean) (Alec Guinness, William Holden)

9. Rules Of The Game - (1939, Jean Renoir) (Roland Toutain, Nora Gregor)

10. The Godfather Part II - (1974, Francis Ford Coppola) (Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro)

11. Lawrence of Arabia - (1962, David Lean) (Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn)

12. It's A Wonderful Life - (1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed)

13. Schindler's List - (1993, Steven Spielberg) (Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley)

14. To Kill A Mockingbird - (1962, Robert Mulligan) (Gregory Peck, Mary Badham)

15. Raging Bull - (1980, Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci)

16. Star Wars - (1977, George Lucas) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness)

17. La Strada - (1954, Federico Fellini) (Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn)

18. Psycho - (1960, Alfred Hitchcock) (Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh)

19. Sunset Boulevard - (1950, Billy Wilder) (Gloria Swanson, William Holden)

20. La Dolce Vita - (1960, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee)

21. Wild Strawberries - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson)

22. Singin' in the Rain - (1952, Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly) (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds)

23. Diabolique - (1954, Henri-Georges Clouzot) (Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot)

24. Dr. Strangelove - (1964, Stanley Kubrick) (Peter Sellers, George C. Scott)

25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - (1939, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Claude Rains)

26. Apocalypse Now - (1979, Francis Ford Coppola) (Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall)

27. Once Upon a Time in the West - (1968, Sergio Leone) (Henry Fonda,Charles Bronson)

28. The Leopard - (1963, Luchino Visconti) (Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale)

29. Ikiru - (1952, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Kaneko)

30. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - (1966, Sergio Leone) (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef)

31. Vertigo - (1958, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Kim Novak)

32. Fantasia - (1940, Walt Disney) (Philadelpia Symphony Orchestra, Walt Disney)

33. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - (1975, Milos Forman) (Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher)

34. Some Like it Hot - (1959, Billy Wilder) (Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Marilyn Monroe)

35. Peeping Tom - (1960, Michael Powell) (Karl Heinz Bohm, Morira Shearer)

36. 2001: A Space Odyssey - (1968, Stanley Kubrick) (Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain)

37. Empire Strikes Back - (1980, Irvin Kershner) (Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford)

38. The Graduate - (1967, Mike Nichols) (Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross)

39. Andrei Rublev - (1966, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Anatoli Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov)

40. The African Queen - (1951, John Huston) (Catherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart)

41. Chinatown - (1974, Roman Polanski) (Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston)

42. All About Eve - (1950, Joseph L Mankiewicz) (Bette Davis, Anne Baxter)

43. The Grapes of Wrath - (1940, John Ford) (Henry Fonda, John Carradine)

44. 8 1/2 - (1939, Federico Fellini) (Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale)

45. North by Northwest - (1959, Alfred Hitchcock) (Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint)

46. Jaws - (1975, Steven Spielberg) (Roy Schieder, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss)

47. The Maltese Falcon - (1941, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor)

48. A Clockwork Orange - (1971, Stanley Kubrick) (Malcolm McDowell, Patrick McGee)

49. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - (1982, Steven Spielberg) (Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace)

50. Taxi Driver - (1976, Martin Scorsese) (Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster)

51. City Lights - (1931, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill)

52. A Streetcar Named Desire - (1951, Elia Kazan) (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh)

53. Tokyo Story - (1953, Yasujiro Ozu) (Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura)

54. The World of Apu - (1959, Satyajit Ray) (Soumitra Chatterjee, Sharmila Tagore)

55. It Happened One Night - (1934, Frank Capra) (Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert)

56. Rear Window - (1954, Alfred Hitchcock) (James Stewart, Grace Kelly)

57. Life of Oharu - (1952, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuyo Tanaka, Toshiro Mifune)

58. Sunrise - (1927, F.W. Murnau) (George OÂ�Brien, Janet Gaynor)

59. The Gold Rush - (1925, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray)

60. Ugestu Monogatari - (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori)

61. Aparajito - (1957, Satyajit Ray) (Kali Bannerjee, Kanu Banerji)

62. Rashamon - (1951, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyo)

63. The Seventh Seal - (1957, Ingmar Bergman) (Max von Sydow, Bengt Ekerot)

64. Battleship Potemkin - (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) (Vladimir Barsky, Alexander Antonov)

65. Pather Panchali - (1955, Satyajit Ray) (Subir Banerji, Karuna Bannerjee)

66. M - (1931, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Otto Wernicke)

67. The Deer Hunter - (1978, Michael Cimino) (Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken)

68. High Noon - (1952, Fred Zinnemann) (Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly)

69. The Silence of the Lambs - (1991, Jonathan Demme) (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)

70. Rocky - (1976, John G. Avildsen) (Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Talia Shire)

71. Bonnie and Clyde - (1967, Arthur Penn) (Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway)

72. The Treasure of Sierra Madre - (1948, John Huston) (Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston)

73. Double Indemnity - (1944, Billy Wilder) (Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray)

74. The Philadelphia Story - (1940, George Cukor) (Katherine Hepburn, James Stewart)

75. Doctor Zhivago - (1965, David Lean) (Omar Sharif, Julie Christie)

76. The Birth of a Nation - (1915, D.W. Griffith) (Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh)

77. Amadeus - (1984, Milos Forman) (F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce)

78. Passion of Joan of Arc - (1928, Carl Theodor Dreyer) (Renee Maria Falconetti, Antonin Artaud)

79. Pulp Fiction - (1994, Quentin Tarantino) (John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman)

80. Duck Soup - (1933, Leon McCarey) (Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx)

81. Rebel Without a Cause - (1955, Nicholas Ray) (James Dean, Natalie Wood)

82. Ben-Hur - (1959, William Wyler) (Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd)

83. Raiders of the Lost Ark - (1981, Steven Spielberg) (Harrison Ford, Paul Freeman)

84. Saving Private Ryan - (1998, Steven Spielberg) (Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore)

85. Patton - (1970, Franklin J. Schaffner) (George C. Scott, Karl Malden)

86. Aguirre, Wrath of God - (1972, Werner Herzog) (Klaus Kinski, Cecilia Rivera)

87. The Bicycle Thief - (1948, Vittorio De Sica) (Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell)

88. Sansho the Bailiff - (1954, Kenji Mizoguchi) (Kinuya Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa)

89. Modern Times - (1936, Charlie Chaplin) (Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard)

90. Platoon - (1986, Oliver Stone) (Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen)

91. King Kong - (1933, Merian C. Cooper) (Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong)

92. Cinema Paradisio - (1988, Giuseppe Tornatore) (Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio)

93. All Quiet on the Western Front - (1930, Lewis Milestone) (Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim)

94. The Children of Paradise - (1945, Marcel Carne) (Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault)

95. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (1972, Luis Bunuel) (Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig)

96. Annie Hall - (1977, Woody Allen) (Woody Allen, Diane Keaton)

97. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - (2003, Peter Jackson) (Elijah Wood, Sean Astin)

98. Cries and Whispers - (1972, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid Thulin, Liz Ullmann)

99. Yojimbo - (1961, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai)

100. City of God - (2002, Fernando Meirelles) (Jonathan Haagensen, Alexandre Rodrigues)

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