DELICIOUS presents Close Encounters... of a G.O.P. kind

MARGIN CALL: a delicious new film drama that explores the events leading up to the 2008 Wall Street meltdown.

There have been reports of hurt feelings among the bankers and brokers who have been the focus of public ire and Occupy Wall Street protests. And it is true that those poor, hard-working souls have been demonized and caricatured. Surely the much-reviled 1 percent does not consist of plutocrats in top hats or predators in blue suits, but of human beings just like the other 99 percent of us, albeit with more money and perhaps more to answer for. That, in a way, is the message of J. C. Chandor’s “Margin Call,” which does a great deal to humanize the authors — and beneficiaries — of the 2008 financial crisis. But the film, relentless in its honesty and shrewd in its insights and techniques, is unlikely to soothe the wounded pride of the actual or aspiring ruling class. It is a tale of greed, vanity, myopia and expediency that is all the more damning for its refusal to moralize. — A. O. Scott

Full New York Times Review here: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/movies/margin-call-with-zachary-quinto-review.html?nl=movies&emc=mua1

A DELICIOUS FILM FANTASTY FOR OUR TIME ~ FROM 1969!

Bryan Forbes directs THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT: a poetic and comic fable set in the twilight zone of the not-quite-true. At the Cafe Chez Francis, a group of sinister promoters (Yul Brynner, Charles Boyer, Paul Henreid, John Gavin, and Oscar Homolka), plot to tear up Paris in order to unearth the oil which a slimey prospector (Donald Pleasence) believes he has located in the neighborhood. These grandiose plans come to the attention of The Madwoman of Chaillot (Katharine Hepburn) who is ostensibly not normal in her mind but who is soon shown to be the very essence of practical worldly goodness and common sense. She sees through the crookedness of the prospector and insists that the world is being turned into an unhappy place by the thieves and those who are greedy for worldly goods and power. At a tea party attended by other "mad" women of Paris (Edith Evans, Margaret Leighton, Guilieta Masina), she has brought together representatives of the despoilers of the earth and wreckers of its happiness (including a marvelous turn by Danny Kaye as the Ragpicker), and has them tried and condemned to extermination. In a scene which mounts into the realms of high poetic comedy, she sends the culprits one by one, lured by the scent of oil and undreamed-of riches, into a bottomless pit which opens out of her cellar. The exodus of the wicked is accompanied by another and more beautiful miracle: Joy, justice and love return to the world again. Also starring Nanette Newman and Richard Chamberlain as the young lovers caught in the proceedings. Not to be missed! 

 

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DELICIOUS REMEMBERS: Steve Jobs

...Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart...

...Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary...

~ Steve Jobs
(2005 Stanford Commencement Speech)