1: the Korova Milk Bar in ?A Clockwork Orange.? You'll find yourself disagreeing with a lot in this book ? on a list of ?The 10 Best Uses of Steps or Staircases,? ?Potemkin? limps in at No. 5 ? but so what? It's mindless fun, which is ...
Then two people serendipitously stumbles upon his Costa Verde Hotel retreat: Hannah Jelkes a middle-aged artist and her elderly companion who awakes from his stupor to recite his final life-affirming poem. It's Ms. ...
And so begins Jean-Pierre Mellville's masterpiece as we are introduced to the lonely hitman Jef Costello, meditating silently in his drab hotel room in a haze of cigarette smoke amid the friendly chirps of his parakeet. ...
