Persepolis (2007)

Persepolis (2007)

starring Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve

written and directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud

This is the story of Marjane Satrapi. She was living with her parents in Tehran when the Iranian Revolution began. She was very excited by it. She was very young at the time. She continued to live in Tehran with her parents. She was always outspoken. It got her into trouble.

Her parents sent her to Austria to study when she was a teenager. She had studied French in Iran at a French school so they sent her to a similar school in Vienna. Life in Vienna wasn't easy, for multiple reasons. She returned to Iran after burning more than one bridge in Vienna.

Babylon Berlin 1.01

Episode 1

May 29, 1929

The episode opens with a doctor using hypnosis to get Rath, a police inspector from Cologne, to remember something. 

Rath travels to Berlin and works with Bruno Wolter, of the Berlin Police Department, to track down something or someone. They break up a pornography studio. Krajewski, one of the men in the studio, runs. They catch up to him. He almost kills Rath. Wolter recognizes him. He's a former cop.

The two policemen let Krajewski go but they bring in König, the director of the film. Wolter interrogates him while Rath is busy with other things. Wolter wants to know how König knows Rath but König doesn't have anything to say.

Atlanta 4.09

Andrew Wyeth. Alfred's World.

Alfred spends some time, by himself, at the farm he bought. Animals have broken into his grow house. He gets some advice from the cashier at the local hardware store who thinks (based on Alfred description of the mess left behind) that it is a wild pig. Alfred laughs at the guy's story. He later finds out what it was that broke into his grow house.

Thoughts

Elements of this episode, the title and some of what Alfred experiences, reference a painting by Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World. I did not know of the painting. It was brought to my attention by the episode of The Ringer Prestige TV Podcast about this episode of Atlanta. 

UFO Robo Grendizer 2.26

The Exodus of the Army of Vega Daio

or La génération des monstres (The generation of monsters)

or The Massive Shift of The Vegan Army!

Vega is threatened when explosions occur in the Vegatron mines on Zeta 4. The people of Vega are forced to move underground because the atmosphere on the surface becomes radioactive and unbreathable. Vega Daio and Dantus, his defense minister, set a plan in motion to move to conquer Earth and move there.

Doctor Who (1963) 11.03.02

Death to the Daleks - Part Two

The Dalek weapons don't work. It turns out that they are there for the same reason as the humans, they need the cure for the disease that is ravaging the galaxy. The Daleks reluctantly agree to work with the humans until they can get their devices and their ship to work and get off the planet.

The Daleks, the humans, and the Doctor go to examine the spot where the humans have been gathering the precious cure to the disease. They are attacked by a large group of Exillons. Captain Railton and one of the Daleks are killed. Galloway takes charge but they have no choice but to surrender. They are taken to the Exxilons underground lair.

NewsRadio 5.16

Wino

Johnny Johnson returns to WNYX. He has been living on the streets. He's still in love with Lisa, who has trouble resisting him. Everyone is ready to kick Johnny out, except Lisa.

Thoughts

There is no b-plot in this episode.

I really enjoyed this episode. This was a lot of fun. I don't recall seeing it before but I might have. This is definitely a highlight from this season and in part makes up for the abrupt and unsatisfying end to the last episode in which Johnny appeared.

How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

starring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi

directed by Richard Quine

118 minutes

watched on Kanopy

Stanley Ford (Jack Lemmon) wakes up the day after a friend's bachelor party and finds out that he got married the night before. He tries to get the marriage annulled but Harold, his lawyer, thinks he is better off married and refuses to help him out. Stanley resigns himself to the married life. He loses Charles (Terry Thomas), his butler, who refuses to work for a married couple.