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  • Talmud 7:16 as Quoted by Rishon Rishon in 2004
    Qohelet Raba, 7:16

    אכזרי סוף שנעשה אכזרי במקום רחמן

    Kol mi shena`asa rahaman bimqom akhzari Sof shena`asa akhzari bimqom rahaman

    All who are made to be compassionate in the place of the cruel In the end are made to be cruel in the place of the compassionate.

    More colloquially translated: "Those who are kind to the cruel, in the end will be cruel to the kind."

    Online Source: http://www.rishon-rishon.com/archives/044412.php

  • Abraham Isaac Kook
    "The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice.They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith.They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom." From the pages of Arpilei Tohar.
  • Heinrich Heine
    "Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned." -- From Almansor: A Tragedy (1823).
  • Simon Wiesenthal
    Remark Made in the Ballroom of the Imperial Hotel, Vienna, Austria on the occasion of His 90th Birthday: "The Nazis are no more, but we are still here, singing and dancing."
  • Maimonides
    "Truth does not become more true if the whole world were to accept it; nor does it become less true if the whole world were to reject it."
  • Douglas Adams
    "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" Epigram appearing in the dedication of Richard Dawkins' The GOD Delusion.
  • Thucydides
    "The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
  • Milan Kundera
    "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Notes

  • Care to Read What I Read?

    I've embarked on a great reduction in privacy by bookmarking my web-based reading on the "delicious.com" utility. It may tip my hand as to what I have in mind for blogging, but the same may help friends and frenemies alike track my thinking: here is the URL:

    http://www.delicious.com/commart

  • Author's Wish Each Friday Night
    Shabbat Shalom. May our arguments be resolved through perceptive words and good deeds only; may we live another week helpful to one another in relative peace.
  • Photography: Prints & Services
    A gentle reminder: I'm in business as a producer of fine art prints and as a provider of shoot-for-fee services, including portraiture and weddings plus assigned photojournalism. My general location: intersection of I-70 and I-81; core camera system: Nikon; transportation: Mustang.

    Main web: www.communicating-arts.com

    E-Mail: jso@communicating-arts.com

    Also: as of 2011, I am building a photography print-on-demand presence at Fine Art AmericaM. This is the address:

    http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/james-oppenheim.html

    Effort in print-on-demand will not offset the production nor value of signed, limited edition prints made under my own hand. However, for very good convenience, price, and quality, print-on-demand may work out well for many fans and patrons.

  • Research Services

    If you're engaged in funded research in conflict analysis or other areas that may be addressed here and wish to engage my mind in your project, feel welcome to drop me a note at jso@communicating-arts.com.

Etcetera

J. S. Oppenheim's Other Blogs and Webs

  • Flickr!

  • Communicating Arts - Main Web Site
  • Communicating Arts - The Journal
  • Mustang Highways
    American highways and a six cylinder, 190 horsepower Ford Mustang 2000, Nikons, and philosophy.

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June 11, 2009

What I Have Been Watching -- Movies

I don't really watch television.

I get my news as much of the world does: off the Internet.

In fact, the World Wide Web has become my constant information, constant conversation environment, but I do enjoy films.

This last time I did this, January 25, 2008, I had listed about 75 movies rented via Netflix:

http://commart.typepad.com/oppenheim_arts_letters/2008/01/what-i-we-have.html

Here's the list from January 25, 2008 to this day, June 11, 2009 with a few deletions (they were bad or of unfortunate title)--the order is reverse chronological:

Ghosts of Rwanda: Frontline

Braveheart

Hotel Rwanda

Enemy at the Gates

We Were Soldiers

Pan's Labyrinth

Closer

From Here to Eternity

Uprising

Platoon

Kingdom of Heaven

Black Hawk Down

Gladiator: Extended Edition Walk the Line

Dressed to Kill

The Border

Poltergeist

Stephen King's Cat's Eye

Firestarter

The Deer Hunter

The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

An American Carol

The Tenants

Men of Honor

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

The Man from Earth

The Tenant

The Natural

Cape Fear

Fatal Attraction

New York, New York

Boxcar Bertha

Directors: Martin Scorsese

Mean Streets

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

The Blues: Piano Blues

The Blues: Disc 6: Red, White and Blues

The Blues: Disc 5: Godfathers and Sons

The Blues: Disc 3: The Road to Memphis

The Blues: Disc 2: The Soul of a Man

The Blues: Disc 4: Warming by Devil's Fire

The Blues: Disc 1: Feel Like Going Home

The Legend of Bagger Vance

A River Runs Through It

Good Will Hunting

Scent of a Woman

The Doors

Glengarry Glen Ross

The Talented Mr. Ripley

In the Light of Reverence

Memphis Belle

Easy Rider

Memphis Belle

Jackson Pollock

 Don't Move

Into the Wild

The Bicycle Thief

Carnal Knowledge

The Empire in Africa

The Jackal

Five Easy Pieces

Fifteen Minutes

Daisy Miller

Blow Up 

Texasville

Mask: Director's Cut

Paper Moon

The Graduate

Cabaret

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade

Boogie Nights

The Sand Pebbles

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James S. Oppenheim

I had forgotten about the DVD's in the library!

Lady Sings the Blues
Syriana
No Country for Old Men
Annie Leibovitz
The Yacoubian Building

In addition to the Leibovitz documentary, I brought home the DVD from Hillwood, the former estate of Marjorie Merriweather Post in Washington, D.C., and which visit I may recommend to any who love either gardens or Russian art and iconography or both.

Posted by: James S. Oppenheim | June 16, 2009 at 06:41 AM

tammy swofford

In the last month for home viewing:

Hotel Rwanda, In the Time of the Butterflies, The Jackal and The Painted Veil.

In the beloved movie category, "The Yacoubian Building". The book is also lovely.

Tammy

Posted by: tammy swofford | June 12, 2009 at 01:24 PM

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