Blue Jasmine

Blue Jasmine is a film about a very beautiful but not too bright woman who is married to a fantastically wealthy womaniser, who cheats on her while defrauding his clients. It's made by Woody Allen who has recently been accused of sexual abuse by an adopted daughter.

Cate Blanchett's acting is, as ever, off the charts. She's extraordinary.

GOOGLE AI Scientist Quits & Warns Humanity Is Doomed

Loads of people were raving about how essential this podcast conversation is so I listened, and I can save some of you time. Mo Gawdat is portrayed as AI Brass at Google who quit when he realised his entire life's work had assembled the technological existential threat that will devour us in about six minutes, or maybe 33 Minutes on slow days. One option he iterated is to wrap our affairs up and get ready to hide from the machines so they can't find us.

I thought the Virgin Islands had lost their charm in recent years so if you know any classic tropical beach hangouts where Billionaire Satanic Ritual Child Abusers and Virgin Island neighbours aren't going to tip-up and ruin the vibe? Don't forget to tip off a brother. I'm always open to new ideas and willing to experiment.

Mo isn't the top brass at Google AI, he was a Business Officer and also mentions the real brains at X (Formerly Google X of ABC alphabet agency) but in a deferential manner as it's not him. I know you guys can spot a pattern so there's no need for unnecessary drama. I'll lay it out as succinctly and neatly as I can. 

Mo Gawdat and his interviewer both believe climate change is real. Oddly enough they're correct but dictionaries in the past put this to bed hundreds of years ago.

Climate is never the same temperature

Climate is only climate if it changes 

If it doesn't change, it wouldn't be called climate

If you present with crocodile tears of concern for climate extinction ideally a fruitful conversation on the Palaeocene Eocene Thermal Maximum is benchmark because as the frozen Big Burps of Methane thaw, they are existentially deadly in minutes and seconds though equally the science says mammals emerged from that era. 

If we emerged from Burping Methane times, it follows that it was at worst benign and likely better for our evolutionary path that commenced for mammals afterwards. However, it’s important to note official NWO narratives state that the release of methane from thawing permafrost or oceanic methane hydrates have exponentially significant impacts on the environment, as methane is a potent greenhouse gas. The release of large amounts of methane into the atmosphere can contribute to climate change and have negative effects on the environment and its inhabitants.

Methane is so deadly, haters of Russia cheered on when NATO blew up Nordstream II pipeline from Russia to Europe of cheap energy, and blamed it on the victims while acquiring amnesia about climate change from the biggest intentional terror attack on the planet, through deliberate due to explosive Methane release it's one kilometre of methane every second of breathing we take.

Mo and the interviewer were really stressed about climate change but get this they were lamenting their incredibly bad fortune to also have endured the scamdemic in their lifetimes. You know my opinions and FOI releases are skin in the game. But it's a triple scammy whammy for Mo and fawning Podcast CEO now that AI is the cocoa powder dusting, on their weekly Ice cream sundaes and long cherished plans for a life of rewards followed by more systemic rewards is now toast.

There's more. Mo didn't know that the Manhattan Project was a Plutonium implosion bomb next used on Nagasaki. He didn't know that Robert Oppenheimer quoted the most cherished Hindu text of the Bhagavad Gita on 'implosion' saying "Now I'm become death, the destroyer of worlds" 

CEO didn't even know what the Manhattan Project and Trinity were and that a nice obelisk now indicates the location of the test. Obelisk is Ba'al's penis. I know, it's an odd shape but my own isn't much to write home about so no judgement there.

Neither of them were sure that Oppenheimer, a real classics scholar didn't invent the bomb, he did all his theoretical physics and quantum work in the 30s. He was brilliant but for Manhattan he was more a vast project manager for the largest conspiracy ever of 66,000 scientists and workers sworn to secrecy with their wives and children, blissfully ignorant of their real day job. Next time someone says 'we'd know if they lied about going to the moon', it's not true. We researchers would know, you would be repeating Max Hastings bitching about Boris, when not only did he hire him, but he also didn't have the bottle to fire him before he left The Telegraph, as Editor in Chief... Do you invariably repeat what you're told before applying critical thinking?

I said I'd keep it short yet already failure is in my typing finger tips when it comes to the credulous. OK last shot. Mo told the CEO about his Sufism, and CEO didn't know what it was. All those books behind him with Harvard emergency false flag strategies (he literally says he was educated to blow things up to get the sheep moving in a direction) and it became painfully self-evident he'd never read a history book in his life.

I was educated on those strategies too because I read books about SIS, MOS & CIA and just to check I went to the movies to see Bond, in case the set of Diamonds are Forever is up to date.

AI is going to change everything for ever and ever. It's the most exciting thing since the internet and there will be good days and there will be bad. The toothpaste is out of the tube, and we will deal with it or not. It's life. We live hopefully, before we die but Chicken Little drama-queens are either useless or very useful to someone else.

Rashômon - 1950

I used to download the top 10 or 20 movies that I thought would appeal to me by reading the year end reviews, but that hasn't happened since 2018 so I thought I'd do a catch up and I can see part of the problem. There's so much superhero globohomo dross these days. I don't watch movies for entertainment, I'm looking for films that have an impact on me. Change the way I think.

Rashomon didn't hit the spot. It's terrific photography and pared down to the minimum of actors but they weren't collectively credible. A Samurai losing a sword fight to a bandit who can barely afford to wear rags? There's quiet a few continuity errors, though these are concealed with the 4 different accounts of the narrative, but there's some honkers in there.

I'd probably watch it in a cinema if I had a couple of hours to spare but unlike everyone else in the universe the film is a bit of turkey for me.

Why Are Her Eyes Closed?

Is this a good time to discuss the Stanley Kubrick movie, Eyes Wide Shut?

Hearts of Darkness - Francis Ford Coppola's Documentary of Apocalypse Now

For a long time one of my all-time favourite movies was Apocalypse Now. It still is but, y'know, things move on and change.

It was no surprise to discover that at some point I'd randomly downloaded a documentary of the making of the film.

What I didn't anticipate was the documentary coming to life without my assistance while working on a computer, and discovering it was so compelling that I had to stop my tasks, watch it properly and then watch it again.

There's a few books that are just overrated flim-flam and have a suspicious smell of agenda more than talent. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is one, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is another, and so is Moby Dick by Herman Melville, although that particular book didn't take off till after his death.

Don't mistake me. All three books have magnificent flourishes of writing but just don't stand up all the way through, and dozy academics can't even call it out, as I noticed on an 'In Our Time's recent episode'.

In a way Coppola is grappling with this weak story ending, and tries to fill the gap with a very bloated, uncooperative and superficial Marlon Brando.

What is exceptional is watching the making of the movie unfold and learning for the first time that Francis Ford Coppola (It's always a triple whammy when it comes to triplet names if we're paying attention) funded the movie himself before Vietnam movies became a thing in the eighties and early nineties, and it was acceptable to portray a soon to be 'defeated' Pentagon.

We now know much of that was scripted by Bell Helicopter and Daniel Ellesberg who is portrayed as a hero, but actually worked as a throat slitter for the CIA in much the same manner that Snowden isn't NSA, but a CIA contractor.

It's all about optics you see. That's why Snowjob gets a movie made about him, and Julian Assange languishes in the worst prison in the UK, Belmarsh.

Coppola starts off this documentary with a fine set of man boobs and a pasta-gut that wouldn't look out of place on a man 20 years older. However, when the shit hits the fan he starts losing kilos at a time, and by the end is a slender motherfucker at the screening. 

He did go through hell, but also had the balls for it.

I really fell in love with Francis in this documentary, as I have with his daughter's work in recent years. He has that Italian American body language that my political mentor had back in the day, and I wish I could have observed this before he passed on, his wife too only weeks ago.

Oh well, Joe and Kathy are reunited again and they're still in my thoughts. You were both great with me and it was a privilege to know you both.

One thing I never talked about with Joe was that his wife's first lover died in Vietnam. I never shared it with her husband but it was a vista of life I'd only ever known previously, on film.... such as Apocalypse Now.

Audie Murphy - To Hell and Back (1955)

Last year I listened to a story about the most decorated man in WWII, who went on to star in his own film about his life in the military.

By coincidence the topic emerged again, and then last week I popped in to unsocially-distance a friend, and the movie was just starting on the television of the person who had told me the story in the first place.

We watched it together, and although war is not a genre I particularly care for, or enjoy, I got to the end and by then I was marvelling how this little guy (5 foot 5) went from ceaseless war-front bravery to being good enough to act as himself on the big screen.

We all know that Wall Street funded both sides of the war. 

Well actually some people know that, but even then, most are completely incapable of processing and synthesising the information into other topics such as the Shoah religion or the genocide of a million plus Germans after the war in real prisoner death camps not the work camps (Arbeitslager) that came complete with swimming pools, brothels, theatres and orchestras, but no indoctrination as we can see in any Hollywood movie or Television production.

All sides of the war would never be able to recruit soldiers if the troops knew what we now know. That's why war on a large scale is a discredited rationale for most young people, and many older ones too.

For some years , despite being a huge critic of the Pentagonal Satanic forces, I know most men sacrificed their lives ignorant of the important information and thus are truly courageous even if their efforts were misdirected.

They couldn't get away with it today, but they certainly have pulled the wool over the sheep's eyes on a Scamdemic that could still get much nastier in the future.

This would discredit those who have all the documentation that it was planned in advance.

It does smell more akin to a bioweapon than just the flu right?

Let's see if Biden's dark winter is coming.

Beatriz at Dinner

In the past, I've lamented the lack of really good activist or pro-human movies. 

Beatriz at Dinner is a rare exception to the prevailing narrative and is a powerful movie starring Salma Hayek who we know in the past has broken the cardinal rule of Hollywood which is to never mention the genocide and land thieving in Palestine by the Israeli colonisers.

I was enjoying the expected tension of a woman's car breaking down and her wealthy massage client insisting she stay for dinner with the kind of people who are so impoverished that they only know how to compare their net worth. 

All this while boasting of their exploits living in a world of extraordinary wealth compared to the ordinary hard working families that prop up much of the rich.

There's an interesting philosophical morality question that flips the script at the end of this terrific movie, and though it didn't catch me by surprise, it did offer a shockingly stark contrast to the gentle Reiki healer, spiritual female and woman who only gives her energy to relieve the pain of others.

I like to point out from time to time that wealth creation is a key driver of human development and I'm fully in favour of that. However, there's a lot of creepy parasites at the top who only know that he who dies with the most toys, wins.

Bombshell - The Hedy Lamarr Story

I've been meaning to watch this for some time and it's a belter. Hedy comes from that wealthy Jewish-Austrian milieu that includes Wittgenstein and Popper (and Hitler if we excuse the wealth). She's a stunner and by the age of 19 had filmed the most erotic movie ever and married a wealthy Austrian industrialist. 

Bored with parochial Tyrolean mise-en-scene, she legs it to the USA with a reputation as a kind of teenage pornstar, and a stifling movie contract with Louis B Mayer that required a life of amphetamines and benzos to stay awake or get some sleep during 6-day-weeks of production.

Hedy is clearly no slouch when it comes to innovation and free thinking, but after some consideration of the documentary, and a fairly fierce conversation with my father who has some expertise on the topic, I have to concede that although she had a large hand in developing spectrum-hopping for guided missiles, torpedos and drones, it's likely her Italian collaborator George Antheil had a lot of input. It's also possible with her Austrian Jewish origins that she may have been a conduit for leaked secrets from Germany? 

Just a thought.

That said, Hedy also dated Howard Hughes who gave her free rein with all his designers and engineers for anything she wanted. So she must have been a brilliant mind.

Hedy was also an early adopter of plastic surgery and even provided suggestions for her surgeon on how to do it better. Sadly that story continued too long and by the end of your life her face was a mess (sic).

For me though the early Hedy isn't that attractive (though I wouldn't say no), but in 1969 she appeared on one of those vapid chat shows with creepy hosts. 

Despite the toe-curling dialogue she's a stunner even if there's a nip or a tuck here and there.

Waterloo - 1970

It's another demonstration of airbrushed-history that most UK people have no idea that Napoleon fought and lost against the British, Prussians, Austrians and Russians simultaneously at Waterloo.

It's a bit like most British mistakenly believe that Churchill was the principle reason for victory against the Germans, and have no idea that the Soviets lost over a hundred times more troops getting to Berlin than the quarter of a million we lost unnecessarily due to an ethnic supremacy group (in Czechoslovakia) who were picking up Winston's bills.

Waterloo couldn't be made today, because we're so wealthy that employing so many film extras can't be done. Imagine the task of just feeding 16,000 extras, doing the make-up, costumes, horses, film crews and then shooting and watching dailies and reshoots .... impressive.

Although produced by Dino De Laurentiis, it took Soviet money to make Waterloo a reality and thus was appropriately directed by Sergei Bondarchuk assisted by Orson Welles, who plays a bloody marvellous and morbidly obese Louis XVIII.

The costumes are exceptional in this film, and it's worth watching just for that, the sets, and mind-boggling logistics commanded by a brilliant Rod Steiger as Napoleon, unlike Wellington playing Christopher Plummer (sic), as let's face it they're both interchangeable.

The scene that caught my eye was the Duchess of Richmond's Ball in Brussels, but mainly because I'm uncomfortable with battle scenes of horses falling at galloping speed to cannon and artillery fire.

Wellington and Napoleon were both born in the same year, had nepotistical promotions via their brothers, keenly read the works of Caesar and chose Hannibal as their favourite hero. They also shared two mistresses (at different times you understand) and even ate food prepared from the same personal chef.

If you're like me that's always a wink to synthetic history but there's no need to go there if you're unfamiliar with the subject.

"Брат-2" с английскими субтитрами | "Brother-2" with English Subtitles

Брат-2 с английскими субтитрами _ Brother-2 with english subtitles from Vitalii Nekrasov on Vimeo.

My good Russian friend recommended this movie, and as he has never done that before, I gave it a go. I do that with all friends, which is why you've been seeing some write ups for Westerns of late. Not my genre, but entertaining to see it through other people's eyes.

This movie is well worth it if you like violent movies and it's available above in full on Youtube.

Ordinarily I switch off movies that fetishise shooting, because it's cheesy and unappealing for me, but as it's a Russian movie I persisted. A subtitled movie is usually a better bet for keeping my interest.

The main character in Brother 2 looks nothing like a trained killer, adolescent even, but that doesn't take away from his compelling performance. A really quality understated portrayal.

The movie is set in Moscow and Chicago and gives us a real flavour of criminal life as seen through the eyes of a foreigner, fresh on the streets of the United States (however long that is going to last at present).

Hollywood is largely responsible for the portrayal of different countries in a stereotypical manner. It's better now than it used to be, but watch The World of Suzie Wong to see the most excruciating of Occidental views of the Orient.

It's this movie's ability to get a sense of Chicago (home to Obama as he was being groomed for President by alphabet agencies and other parties, that we don't know their names.), which separates it from a domestic POV.

Every informed person knows the weekly murder rate in Chicago is the highest in the country, and is befitting for the adopted City of Barry Soetoro the cut out president.

There's some gruesome scenes in this movie. DIY guns exploding in sensitive places, rape porn being watched by the fat controller of a night-time establishment, and some excellent guns, which paradoxically I have slight fetish for, as design is often superb and obviously killing looters, rioters and violent thugs is quite topical as the scripted decline of the USA plays out in real life.

If you're confused by what's going on Stateside right now, you can see the recipe was created decades ago.

Watching this movie will help, but as you can see from my friends message, there's a lot more depth there, then I picked up on.

Update: The video has been disabled the day after I post it. It can still be watched within the Youtube environment, I believe.

Shenandoah - 1965

I'm not into Western movies, per se, but if I ask a friend what their favourite movie is, and I know nothing about it, I'll give it a try.

This is actually a civil war movie,  about a wholesome widower's family played by the great James Stewart, who to my knowledge led an exemplary life with very little scandal in his movie making career.

The wholesomeness is mirrored in the movie by Charlie Anderson, played by Stewart. His large family of mostly sons and two daughters, are often occupied with life on their somewhat large farm.

The civil war eventually intrudes on their lives, with pressure to co-opt the sons into the advancing Confederate army, and some tough lines are to be drawn.

A movie like this can never be made now as the 'you're either with us, or against us' mentality has pervaded all of Hollywood's output with respect to war mongering.

The Godfather - Parts I, II and III

We make art not money is an allegory for the Godfather trilogy.

The music score is unparalleled in mobster mafia movies, though ersatz mob leaders are somewhat obvious in this epic drama. 

They aren't the real mafia, they are the Hollyweird ones.

They are there for your amusement, so to speak.

I discovered the mafia was run by much more low profile Zionists when researching the role of Israel and the Bronfman family in the murder of JFK.

That cast is conveniently covered up by the most powerful magician's spell on the planet. It's called Hollywood movies, and is the same reason the existential threat is always swinging from terrorists to zombie pandemics with no mention of who bombed the United States and the United Kingdom with no punitive response taken after WWII.

This movie is largely populated by Italian American actors who went on to have solid lifelong careers, such as Pacino, Andy Garcia and De Niro, but it's the presence of James Caan who stood out like a sore thumb, and not a very persuasive one at that.

There's a kind of subtle story-telling 'thruther' aspect in this trilogy if you're paying attention, but if you're not, it's still a great Cosa Nostra trilogy.

I haven't completed part III yet so I may update this when it is finished.

Update: 

How magnificent is Sofia Coppola, in  Godfather III? 

Very, is the answer.

There's a kind of circularity, in so much as in one scene, she takes the camera, while being directed by her father, Francis Ford Coppola, only to end up having an extraordinary female director's success in her later career.

Part III lacks the texture and richness of Part 1 and 2, but what it lacks in slow, moody and baroque-lit scenes, is compensated by more excellent Sicilian and Vatican film locations. For some reason, the critics panned her performance, but this is clearly a case of ignorance or envy. Mary Corleone, played by Sofia is spelling binding.

I'd probably have to watch this triptych again to scrape away at some of the more resonant topics visited in this excellent set of movies.

Update: Happy Birthday Sofia. 

What a coincidence or should I say synchronicity?

The Joker - 2019

We were disappointed.

Over hyped but still excellent.

A Man For All Seasons - 1966

Four and a half years ago I asked my Facebook connections for their best non Hollywood, film suggestions. One excellent proposal from Juanita Ann Richards, who has since deactivated her account is the above film.

It's an Henry VIII/Thomas Cromwell/Thomas More historical play that did well in the theatre till it was made for the cinema. Even then it went on to win a substantial amount of Oscars, but what captured my imagination was the Kubrick-esque baroque lighting (not Baroque lights) in the opening scenes which really are extra special.

As an historical piece, A man for all seasons, is an excellent education of the impending English reformation (and counter reformation after that).

A Prayer Before Dawn

Possibly the most realistic movie I've ever watched. I took me about 10 days to get through it. Too visceral. Too realistic.

Shout out to ML Rungguna Kitiyakara for telling the obnoxious truth.

Billy Wilder Interview

Both the style of interview and the subject matter are captured in a manner that is rarely achieved these days. It's relaxing, informative and charming. 

Billy Wilder of course directed Double Indemnity.

Dick Tracy - 1990

Well here we are, 2017 and a 2-way wrist watch is somewhat normal, although I've never seen anyone use it that way as texts are easier.

Al Pacino reprises his devil's voice in The Advocate for this movie so it's a familiar and brilliant performance though obviously with a different costume on.

Madonna probably acts one of her greatest performances in this role as in my view she hasn't been very compelling in other movies she made. Here she nails it though the singing does help.

Warren Beatty is just a few years too old for my liking in this movie, but is fairly harmless as an actor. Benign if you wish.

As i understand it both he and his sister Shirley McClean are connected to the Illuminati network as the Beatty family is part of them.

Chinatown - 1974

Strange isn't it? How Polanski directed this movie (which stars Jack Nicholson) just before drugging and anally raping a 13 year old girl in Jack Nicholson's apartment and legging it to France. 

The irony is that he inserts himself into the movie for a cameo gangster role where he slits Nicholson's nose.

I would argue this act was mirrored in real life, through the movie, in a way that we saw synchronism echo massively in Rosemary's Baby. 

Again directed by Polanski.

It's as if the potential use of some kind of synchronism-sorcery has a ripple-effect on an event that acts as an alarm bell to those with a nose to tell.

I was tipped off about Chinatown by Jay Weidner who has redeemed himself in recent months by talking openly about Chosenite influence and spilling the beans on Spielberg.

Faye Dunaway is great as usual. Portraying the most untrustworthy of women though she does have an excuse. The opening scene is about blackmail and at the end (spoiler alert) it's about her super elite father raping her and producing both a daughter and a sister.

And that's how Hollyweird rolls.

13 Minutes - 2017

I'm lucky enough to have a friend who has extraordinary good taste in movies and let's me know what to watch. There's really nothing more to ask out of friendship than that.

13 minutes is a painful movie to watch for more reasons than I care to go into here.

It's an extraordinary feat to make a film about Nazis without disintegrating into cliches but Christian Friedel has done that. 

Just one historical error in the script at the very end of this extraordinary movie. 

The gas chambers did not exist. 

They were constructed as part of a Soviet, US and UK psychological operation which props up the thought control matrix today.

But, as is self evident in this movie, Nazism was an obnoxious control matrix. 

I just wish people could see the drift towards the inhuman in our own society.

I'd rather be hung in my underpants than recant from telling what I know.

Knowledge is not the same as belief.

Similar movies: Der Untergang. Unsere Mütter und unsere Väter. Sofie Scholl.

Badlands - 1973

I don't think I've ever *discovered* a movie before, but if there is one it's Badlands with Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen. I only came across it as I'm working my way through Sissy Spacek's career, and it gets so few mentions in contrast to its startling quality, I feel I've uncovered a gem.

If you're an old git like me that was too young to enjoy this or just missed it on the film map in the 70s and onwards, but now looks to relax and enjoy good movie making with great screen presence and credible scripts, I think this might work.

I had a lot of enjoyment watching this last night and I'm looking forward to seeing what other work Terence Malik has directed.

There's an amazing Youtube of Martin Sheen telling the story of how he came to be cast in the lead role of Charles Starkweather who was possibly the the United States' first charismatic serial killer.