Essay XII. OF BOLDNESS.

It is a trivial grammar-school text, but yet worthy a wise man’s consideration. Question was asked of Demosthenes, what was the chief part of an orator? he answered, action: what next? action: what next again? action. He said it that knew it best, and had by nature himself no advantage in that he commended. A strange thing, that that part of an orator which is but superficial, and rather the virtue of a player, should be placed so high, above those other noble parts of invention, elocution, and the rest; nay almost alone, as if it were all in all. But the reason is plain. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men’s minds is taken are most potent. Wonderful like is the case of Boldness, in civil business; what first? Boldness: what second and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts. But nevertheless it doth fascinate and bind hand and foot those that are either shallow in judgment or weak in courage, which are the greatest part; yea and prevaileth with wise men at weak times. Therefore we see it hath done wonders in popular states; but with senates and princes less; and more ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into action than soon after; for boldness is an ill keeper of promise. Surely as there are mountebanks for the natural body, so are there mountebanks for the politic? body; men that undertake great cures, and perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments, but want the grounds of science, and therefore cannot hold out. Nay you shall see a bold fellow many times do Mahomet’s miracle. Mahomet made the people believe that he would call an hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. So these men, when they have promised great matters and failed most shamefully, yet (if they have the perfection of boldness) they will but slight it over, and make a turn, and no more ado. Certainly to men of great judgment, bold persons are a sport to behold; nay and to the vulgar also, boldness has somewhat of the ridiculous. For if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you not but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. Especially it is a sport to see, when a bold fellow is out of countenance; for that puts his face into a most shrunken and wooden posture; as needs it must; for in bashfulness the spirits do a little go and come; but with bold men, upon like occasion, they stand at a stay; like a stale at chess, where it is no mate, but yet the game cannot stir. But this last were fitter for a satire than for a serious observation. This is well to be weighed; that boldness is ever blind; for it seeth not dangers and inconveniences. Therefore it is ill in counsel, good in execution; so that the right use of bold persons is, that they never command in chief, but be seconds, and under the direction of others. For in counsel it is good to see dangers; and in execution not to see them, except they be very great.

A large induction coil made in 1877 by British instrument maker Alfred Apps for British scientist William Spottiswoode. One of the largest induction coils ever constructed, it could produce a spark 42 inches (106 cm) long, corresponding to a voltage of roughly 1,200,000 volts. It was 44 in. in length, 20 in. in diameter, mounted on 3 insulating wood posts. This drawing shows the coil only; the interrupter, capacitor and liquid batteries needed to generate the primary current are not shown. Its primary winding, seen extending from the ends of the secondary coil, consisted of 1344 turns of .096 in. copper wire wound on a 3.56 in. core made of parallel iron wires. There were actually two primary windings, which could be exchanged; the other was for higher current work. The secondary consisted of 280 miles of wire wound in 341,850 turns. Powered with 5 quart-sized liquid Grove cells, it gave a spark of 28 in., with 10 cells 35 in. and with 30 cells 42 in.

Information from William Spottiswoode, “Description of a large induction coil“. The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, Jan 1877, p. 30. Wikipedia

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Some of our favourite movie from the past century or so.

1916 – Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages   (D. W. Griffith)
1917 – The Immigrant   (Charles Chaplin)
1920 – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari   (Robert Wiene)
1920 – The Golem   (Carl Boese)
1921 – The Phantom Carriage   (Victor Sjöström)
1922 – Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler   (Fritz Lang)
1922 – Nosferatu   (F. W. Murnau)
1922 – Nanook of the North   (Robert J. Flaherty)
1923 – The Hunchback of Notre Dame   (Wallace Worsley)
1924 – Greed   (Erich von Stroheim)
1924 – The Last Laugh   (F. W. Murnau)
1925 – Battleship Potemkin   (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
1925 – The Gold Rush   (Charles Chaplin)
1925 – Seven Chances   (Buster Keaton)
1926 – The General   (Buster Keaton)
1926 – Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed   (Lotte Reiniger)
1926 – Faust   (F. W. Murnau)
1926 – The Black Pirate   (Albert Parker)
1927 – Sunrise   (F. W. Murnau)
1927 – Metropolis   (Fritz Lang)
1927 – Berlin: Symphony of a Great City   (Walter Ruttmann)
1927 – Wings   (William A. Wellman)
1927 – The Unknown   (Tod Browning)
1928 – The Crowd   (King Vidor)
1928 – The Last Command   (Josef von Sternberg)
1928 – The Passion of Joan of Arc   (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1928 – The Circus   (Charles Chaplin)
1928 – The Wedding March   (Erich von Stroheim)
1928 – Sadie Thompson   (Raoul Walsh)
1928 – Beggars of Life   (William A. Wellman)
1929 – Pandora’s Box   (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
1929 – Man with a Movie Camera   (Dziga Vertov)
1929 – Diary of a Lost Girl   (Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front   (Lewis Milestone)
1930 – The Blue Angel   (Josef von Sternberg)
1930 – Min and Bill   (George W. Hill)
1930 – Hell’s Angels   (Howard Hughes)
1930 – The Big Trail   (Raoul Walsh)
1931 – City Lights   (Charles Chaplin)
1931 – Dracula   (Tod Browning)
1931 – Frankenstein   (James Whale)
1931 – Le million   (René Clair)
1931 – À Nous la Liberté   (René Clair)
1931 – The Public Enemy   (William A. Wellman)
1931 – M   (Fritz Lang)
1931 – Dishonored   (Josef von Sternberg)
1931 – Little Caesar   (Mervyn LeRoy)
1931 – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde   (Rouben Mamoulian)
1931 – La Chienne   (Jean Renoir)
1931 – Night Nurse   (William A. Wellman)
1931 – City Streets   (Rouben Mamoulian)
1931 – Safe in Hell   (William A. Wellman)
1931 – Marius   (Alexander Korda)
1931 – Tabu: A Story of the South Seas   (F. W. Murnau)
1932 – Trouble in Paradise   (Ernst Lubitsch)
1932 – Scarface   (Howard Hawks)
1932 – I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang   (Mervyn LeRoy)
1932 – Island of Lost Souls   (Erie Kenton)
1932 – Love Me Tonight   (Rouben Mamoulian)
1932 – Shanghai Express   (Josef von Sternberg)
1932 – Red Dust   (Victor Fleming)
1932 – I Was Born, But…   (Yasujirô Ozu)
1932 – Freaks   (Tod Browning)
1932 – Vampyr   (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1932 – Million Dollar Legs   (Edward Cline)
1932 – Grand Hotel   (Edmund Goulding)
1932 – Blonde Venus   (Josef von Sternberg)
1932 – Murders in the Rue Morgue   (Robert Florey)
1932 – Fanny   (Marc Allégret)
1933 – King Kong   (Merian C. Cooper)
1933 – Baby Face   (Alfted Green)
1933 – 42nd Street   (Lloyd Bacon)
1933 – The Invisible Man   (James Whale)
1933 – Dinner at Eight   (George Cukor)
1933 – Queen Christina   (Rouben Mamoulian)
1933 – Zero for Conduct   (Jean Vigo)
1933 – Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse   (Fritz Lang)
1933 – Heroes for Sale   (William A. Wellman)
1933 – Ecstasy   (Gustav Machatý)
1934 – The Thin Man   (W.S. Van Dyke)
1934 – It Happened One Night   (Frank Capra)
1934 – Treasure Island   (Victor Fleming)
1934 – L’Atalante   (Jean Vigo)
1934 – A Story of Floating Weeds   (Yasujirô Ozu)
1934 – Lieutenant Kije   (Aleksandr Faintsimmer)
1934 – Twentieth Century   (Howard Hawks)
1934 – The Scarlet Empress   (Josef von Sternberg)
1935 – Les Misérables   (Richard Boleslawski)
1935 – Mutiny on the Bounty   (Frank Lloyd)
1935 – The 39 Steps   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1935 – The Informer   (John Ford)
1935 – Ruggles of Red Gap   (Leo McCarey)
1935 – A Night at the Opera   (Sam Wood)
1935 – Crime and Punishment   (Josef von Sternberg)
1936 – The Crime of Monsieur Lange   (Jean Renoir)
1936 – Dodsworth   (William Wyler)
1936 – Modern Times   (Charles Chaplin)
1936 – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town   (Frank Capra)
1936 – The Lower Depths   (Jean Renoir)
1936 – The Petrified Forest   (Archie Mayo)
1936 – Wife vs. Secretary   (Clarence Brown)
1936 – Show Boat   (James Whale)
1937 – La Grande Illusion   (Jean Renoir)
1937 – Captains Courageous   (Victor Fleming)
1937 – Angel   (Ernst Lubitsch)
1937 – Marked Woman   (Lloyd Bacon)
1937 – Pépé le Moko   (Julien Duvivier)
1937 – The Prisoner of Zenda   (John Cromwell)
1938 – La bête humaine   (Jean Renoir)
1938 – Angels with Dirty Faces   (Michael Curtiz)
1938 – The Lady Vanishes   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1938 – Hôtel du Nord   (Marcel Carné)
1938 – Pygmalion   (Anthony Asquith)
1938 – The Big Broadcast of 1938   (Mitchell Leisen)
1939 – Gone with the Wind   (Victor Fleming)
1939 – The Wizard of Oz   (Victor Fleming)
1939 – Only Angels Have Wings   (Howard Hawks)
1939 – The Rules of the Game   (Jean Renoir)
1939 – Dark Victory   (Edmund Goulding)
1939 – The Roaring Twenties   (Raoul Walsh)
1939 – Le Jour se Leve   (Marcel Carné)
1939 – The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum   (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1939 – La fin du jour   (Julien Duvivier)
1940 – The Westerner   (William Wyler)
1940 – His Girl Friday   (Howard Hawks)
1940 – The Shop Around the Corner   (Ernst Lubitsch)
1940 – The Great Dictator   (Charles Chaplin)
1940 – Rebecca   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940 – The Grapes of Wrath   (John Ford)
1940 – Christmas in July   (Preston Sturges)
1940 – Waterloo Bridge   (Mervyn LeRoy)
1940 – The Mark of Zorro   (Rouben Mamoulian)
1940 – Remember the Night   (Mitchell Leisen)
1940 – The Ghost Breakers   (George Marshall)
1941 – Citizen Kane   (Orson Welles)
1941 – The Lady Eve   (Preston Sturges)
1941 – Suspicion   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1941 – The Maltese Falcon   (John Huston)
1941 – The Little Foxes   (William Wyler)
1941 – High Sierra   (Raoul Walsh)
1941 – The Strawberry Blonde   (Raoul Walsh)
1941 – Swamp Water   (Jean Renoir)
1941 – The Sea Wolf   (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – Casablanca   (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – The Magnificent Ambersons   (Orson Welles)
1942 – Yankee Doodle Dandy   (Michael Curtiz)
1942 – Cat People   (Jacques Tourneur)
1942 – Gentleman Jim   (Raoul Walsh)
1942 – Crossroads   (Jack Conway)
1942 – Random Harvest   (Mervyn LeRoy)
1943 – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp   (Michael Powell)
1943 – Shadow of a Doubt   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1943 – The Ox-Bow Incident   (William A. Wellman)
1943 – Tarzan Triumphs   (Wilhelm Thiele)
1943 – Day of Wrath   (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1943 – Le Corbeau   (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1944 – Laura   (Otto Preminger)
1944 – The Woman in the Window   (Fritz Lang)
1944 – Ivan the Terrible, Part I   (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
1944 – To Have and Have Not   (Howard Hawks)
1944 – Double Indemnity   (Billy Wilder)
1944 – The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek   (Preston Sturges)
1944 – Gaslight   (George Cukor)
1944 – Murder, My Sweet   (Edward Dmytryk)
1944 – The Suspect   (Robert Siodmak)
1945 – Detour   (Edgar Ulmer)
1945 – Scarlet Street   (Fritz Lang)
1945 – Rome, Open City   (Roberto Rossellini)
1945 – And Then There Were None   (René Clair)
1945 – Brief Encounter   (David Lean)
1945 – Children of Paradise   (Marcel Carné)
1945 – The Southerner   (Jean Renoir)
1945 – Dead of Night   (Alberto Cavalcanti)
1946 – Gilda   (Charles Vidor)
1946 – La belle et la bête   (Jean Cocteau)
1946 – Great Expectations   (David Lean)
1946 – My Darling Clementine   (John Ford)
1946 – Notorious   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1946 – It’s a Wonderful Life   (Frank Capra)
1946 – The Big Sleep   (Howard Hawks)
1946 – The Stranger   (Orson Welles)
1946 – The Best Years of Our Lives   (William Wyler)
1946 – Green for Danger   (Sidney Gilliat)
1946 – Shoeshine   (Vittorio De Sica)
1947 – Brute Force   (Jules Dassin)
1947 – Odd Man Out   (Carol Reed)
1947 – Nightmare Alley   (Edmund Goulding)
1947 – Monsieur Verdoux   (Charles Chaplin)
1947 – Quai des Orfèvres   (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1948 – Red River   (Howard Hawks)
1948 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre   (John Huston)
1948 – Letter from an Unknown Woman   (Max Ophüls)
1948 – Hamlet   (Laurence Olivier)
1948 – Bicycle Thieves   (Vittorio De Sica)
1948 – Macbeth   (Orson Welles)
1948 – The Red Shoes   (Michael Powell)
1948 – The Fallen Idol   (Carol Reed)
1948 – Oliver Twist   (David Lean)
1948 – I Remember Mama   (George Stevens)
1949 – White Heat   (Raoul Walsh)
1949 – Kind Hearts and Coronets   (Robert Hamer)
1949 – The Third Man   (Carol Reed)
1949 – The Set-Up   (Robert Wise)
1949 – Thieves’ Highway   (Jules Dassin)
1949 – Le Silence de la Mer   (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1949 – The Heiress   (William Wyler)
1950 – Rashômon   (Akira Kurosawa)
1950 – Last Holiday   (Henry Cass)
1950 – Born Yesterday   (George Cukor)
1950 – Sunset Blvd.   (Billy Wilder)
1950 – All About Eve   (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1950 – Los Olvidados   (Luis Buñuel)
1950 – The Asphalt Jungle   (John Huston)
1950 – La ronde   (Max Ophüls)
1951 – Ace in the Hole   (Billy Wilder)
1951 – A Streetcar Named Desire   (Elia Kazan)
1951 – The Thing from Another World   (Christian Nyby)
1951 – Strangers on a Train   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1951 – The Man in the White Suit   (Alexander Mackendrick)
1951 – The African Queen   (John Huston)
1951 – The Lavender Hill Mob   (Charles Crichton)
1951 – La Poison   (Sacha Guitry)
1951 – Early Summer   (Yasujirô Ozu)
1952 – Ikiru   (Akira Kurosawa)
1952 – Umberto D.   (Vittorio De Sica)
1952 – Clash by Night   (Fritz Lang)
1952 – Le Plaisir   (Max Ophüls)
1952 – High Noon   (Fred Zinnemann)
1952 – Singin’ in the Rain   (Stanley Donen)
1952 – Casque d’Or   (Jacques Becker)
1952 – Forbidden Games   (René Clément)
1952 – Othello   (Orson Welles)
1953 – The Earrings of Madame de…   (Max Ophüls)
1953 – Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday   (Jacques Tati)
1953 – Tokyo Story   (Yasujirô Ozu)
1953 – Ugetsu   (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1953 – Roman Holiday   (William Wyler)
1953 – The Big Heat   (Fritz Lang)
1953 – Shane   (George Stevens)
1953 – The Wages of Fear   (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1953 – Stalag 17   (Billy Wilder)
1953 – I Vitelloni   (Federico Fellini)
1953 – Inferno   (Roy Ward Baker)
1954 – Seven Samurai   (Akira Kurosawa)
1954 – On the Waterfront   (Elia Kazan)
1954 – Human Desire   (Fritz Lang)
1954 – La Strada   (Federico Fellini)
1954 – Creature from the Black Lagoon   (Jack Arnold)
1954 – Godzilla   (Ishirô Honda)
1954 – Sansho the Bailiff   (Kenji Mizoguchi)
1954 – Rear Window   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1954 – Hobson’s Choice   (David Lean)
1954 – French Cancan   (Jean Renoir)
1954 – An Inspector Calls   (Guy Hamilton)
1955 – The Ladykillers   (Alexander Mackendrick)
1955 – Smiles of a Summer Night   (Ingmar Bergman)
1955 – The Night of the Hunter   (Charles Laughton)
1955 – Diabolique   (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
1955 – Marty   (Delbert Mann)
1955 – Pather Panchali   (Satyajit Ray)
1955 – Du rififi chez les hommes   (Jules Dassin)
1955 – Ordet   (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
1955 – Lola Montès   (Max Ophüls)
1955 – The Swindle   (Federico Fellini)
1956 – Bob le Flambeur   (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1956 – Invasion of the Body Snatchers   (Don Siegel)
1956 – 7 Men from Now   (Budd Boetticher)
1956 – Forbidden Planet   (Fred M. Wilcox)
1956 – The Searchers   (John Ford)
1956 – The Killing   (Stanley Kubrick)
1956 – Aparajito   (Satyajit Ray)
1956 – The Red Balloon   (Albert Lamorisse)
1956 – The Harder They Fall   (Mark Robson)
1956 – Requiem for a Heavyweight   (Ralph Nelson)
1957 – The Bridge on the River Kwai   (David Lean)
1957 – The Nights of Cabiria   (Federico Fellini)
1957 – The Seventh Seal   (Ingmar Bergman)
1957 – Sweet Smell of Success   (Alexander Mackendrick)
1957 – Paths of Glory   (Stanley Kubrick)
1957 – 12 Angry Men   (Sidney Lumet)
1957 – A Face in the Crowd   (Elia Kazan)
1957 – Witness for the Prosecution   (Billy Wilder)
1957 – Wild Strawberries   (Ingmar Bergman)
1957 – Throne of Blood   (Akira Kurosawa)
1957 – The Cranes Are Flying   (Mikhail Kalatozov)
1957 – A Man Escaped   (Robert Bresson)
1957 – Le Notti Bianche   (Luchino Visconti)
1958 – Mon Oncle   (Jacques Tati)
1958 – Jalsaghar   (Satyajit Ray)
1958 – Touch of Evil   (Orson Welles)
1958 – The Magician   (Ingmar Bergman)
1958 – The Hidden Fortress   (Akira Kurosawa)
1958 – A Night to Remember   (Roy Ward Baker)
1958 – Big Deal on Madonna Street   (Mario Monicelli)
1958 – Elevator to the Gallows   (Louis Malle)
1958 – Cairo Station   (Youssef Chahine)
1958 – Ashes and Diamonds   (Andrzej Wajda)
1959 – The 400 Blows   (François Truffaut)
1959 – Some Like It Hot   (Billy Wilder)
1959 – The Human Condition I: No Greater Love   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1959 – The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1959 – Ballad of a Soldier   (Grigoriy Chukhray)
1959 – The Bridge   (Bernhard Wicki)
1959 – Apur Sansar   (Satyajit Ray)
1959 – Our Man in Havana   (Carol Reed)
1960 – La Dolce Vita   (Federico Fellini)
1960 – Psycho   (Alfred Hitchcock)
1960 – The Virgin Spring   (Ingmar Bergman)
1960 – Elmer Gantry   (Richard Brooks)
1960 – Tunes of Glory   (Ronald Neame)
1960 – Le Trou   (Jacques Becker)
1960 – The League of Gentlemen   (Basil Dearden)
1960 – The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse   (Fritz Lang)
1961 – Yojimbo   (Akira Kurosawa)
1961 – Through a Glass Darkly   (Ingmar Bergman)
1961 – The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1961 – Viridiana   (Luis Buñuel)
1961 – Cash on Demand   (Quentin Lawrence)
1962 – Billy Budd   (Peter Ustinov)
1962 – Sanjuro   (Akira Kurosawa)
1962 – Harakiri   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1962 – Lolita   (Stanley Kubrick)
1962 – The Trial   (Orson Welles)
1962 – The Manchurian Candidate   (John Frankenheimer)
1962 – Jules and Jim   (François Truffaut)
1962 – To Kill a Mockingbird   (Robert Mulligan)
1962 – The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance   (John Ford)
1962 – Birdman of Alcatraz   (John Frankenheimer)
1962 – La Jetée   (Chris Marker)
1962 – Sundays and Cybèle   (Serge Bourguignon)
1962 – Requiem for a Heavyweight   (Ralph Nelson)
1962 – Days of Wine and Roses   (Blake Edwards)
1963 – 8½   (Federico Fellini)
1963 – This Sporting Life   (Lindsay Anderson)
1963 – High and Low   (Akira Kurosawa)
1963 – Pour la suite du monde   (Michel Brault)
1963 – The Haunting   (Robert Wise)
1963 – Yukinojô henge   (Kon Ichikawa)
1963 – Billy Liar   (John Schlesinger)
1963 – I compagni   (Mario Monicelli)
1963 – Bay of Angels   (Jacques Demy)
1963 – The Big City   (Satyajit Ray)
1964 – Woman in the Dunes   (Hiroshi Teshigahara)
1964 – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb   (Stanley Kubrick)
1964 – Onibaba   (Kaneto Shindô)
1964 – Seven Days in May   (John Frankenheimer)
1964 – Seance on a Wet Afternoon   (Bryan Forbes)
1964 – Charulata   (Satyajit Ray)
1964 – My Fair Lady   (George Cukor)
1964 – Kwaidan   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1964 – Nothing But a Man   (Michael Roemer)
1965 – Juliet of the Spirits   (Federico Fellini)
1965 – Repulsion   (Roman Polanski)
1965 – Red Beard   (Akira Kurosawa)
1965 – The Spy Who Came in from the Cold   (Martin Ritt)
1965 – Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors   (Sergei Parajanov)
1965 – Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff)   (Orson Welles)
1966 – Persona   (Ingmar Bergman)
1966 – Closely Watched Trains   (Jirí Menzel)
1966 – The Battle of Algiers   (Gillo Pontecorvo)
1966 – Nayak   (Satyajit Ray)
1967 – War and Peace   (Sergei Bondarchuk)
1967 – In Cold Blood   (Richard Brooks)
1967 – Playtime   (Jacques Tati)
1967 – Marketa Lazarová   (Frantisek Vlácil)
1967 – Viy   (Konstantin Ershov)
1967 – Samurai Rebellion   (Masaki Kobayashi)
1968 – Romeo and Juliet   (Franco Zeffirelli)
1968 – 2001: A Space Odyssey   (Stanley Kubrick)
1968 – Bullitt   (Peter Yates)
1968 – Once Upon a Time in the West   (Sergio Leone)
1968 – Rosemary’s Baby   (Roman Polanski)
1969 – Army of Shadows   (Jean-Pierre Melville)
1969 – The Sorrow and the Pity   (Marcel Ophüls)
1969 – Midnight Cowboy   (John Schlesinger)
1969 – Z   (Costa-Gavras)
1969 – Salesman   (Albert Maysles)
1970 – Goin’ Down the Road   (Donald Shebib)
1970 – Ryan’s Daughter   (David Lean)
1970 – Aranyer Din Ratri   (Satyajit Ray)
1970 – Patton   (Franklin J. Schaffner)
1971 – McCabe & Mrs. Miller   (Robert Altman)
1971 – Mon oncle Antoine   (Claude Jutra)
1971 – A Clockwork Orange   (Stanley Kubrick)
1971 – King Lear   (Grigori Kozintsev)
1972 – Aguirre, the Wrath of God   (Werner Herzog)
1972 – The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie   (Luis Buñuel)
1972 – Sleuth   (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
1972 – The Seduction of Mimi   (Lina Wertmüller)
1973 – Amarcord   (Federico Fellini)
1973 – Day for Night   (François Truffaut)
1973 – Mean Streets   (Martin Scorsese)
1973 – Charley Varrick   (Don Siegel)
1973 – Magnum Force   (Ted Post)
1973 – The Day of the Jackal   (Fred Zinnemann)
1973 – O Lucky Man!   (Lindsay Anderson)
1973 – El espíritu de la colmena   (Víctor Erice)
1973 – Paper Moon   (Peter Bogdanovich)
1974 – Ali: Fear Eats the Soul   (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1975 – Nashville   (Robert Altman)
1975 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest   (Milos Forman)
1975 – Picnic at Hanging Rock   (Peter Weir)
1975 – Barry Lyndon   (Stanley Kubrick)
1975 – Dog Day Afternoon   (Sidney Lumet)
1975 – The Man Who Would Be King   (John Huston)
1975 – Seven Beauties   (Lina Wertmüller)
1976 – Eraserhead   (David Lynch)
1976 – The Outlaw Josey Wales   (Clint Eastwood)
1976 – Taxi Driver   (Martin Scorsese)
1976 – Harlan County U.S.A.   (Barbara Kopple)
1976 – Jana Aranya   (Satyajit Ray)
1977 – Annie Hall   (Woody Allen)
1977 – Sorcerer   (William Friedkin)
1977 – Killer of Sheep   (Charles Burnett)
1977 – Dersu Uzala   (Akira Kurosawa)
1977 – That Obscure Object of Desire   (Luis Buñuel)
1977 – The Ascent   (Larisa Shepitko)
1977 – The Chess Players   (Satyajit Ray)
1977 – Providence   (Alain Resnais)
1978 – Autumn Sonata   (Ingmar Bergman)
1978 – The Marriage of Maria Braun   (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1979 – Being There   (Hal Ashby)
1979 – Vengeance Is Mine   (Shohei Imamura)
1980 – Raging Bull   (Martin Scorsese)
1980 – The Shining   (Stanley Kubrick)
1980 – City of Women   (Federico Fellini)
1981 – Das Boot   (Wolfgang Petersen)
1982 – Blade Runner   (Ridley Scott)
1982 – The Verdict   (Sidney Lumet)
1982 – Koyaanisqatsi   (Godfrey Reggio)
1982 – Fanny and Alexander   (Ingmar Bergman)
1982 – Veronika Voss   (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
1983 – The Right Stuff   (Philip Kaufman)
1983 – And the Ship Sails On   (Federico Fellini)
1983 – Narayama bushikô   (Shohei Imamura)
1983 – The Dresser   (Peter Yates)
1984 – Ghare-Baire   (Satyajit Ray)
1984 – Ghostbusters   (Ivan Reitman)
1985 – Ran   (Akira Kurosawa)
1985 – Runaway Train   (Andrey Konchalovskiy)
1985 – Brazil   (Terry Gilliam)
1985 – Back to the Future   (Robert Zemeckis)
1985 – Come and See   (Elem Klimov)
1986 – The Singing Detective   (Jon Amiel)
1986 – Jean de Florette   (Claude Berri)
1986 – Manon of the Spring   (Claude Berri)
1986 – Big Trouble in Little China   (John Carpenter)
1986 – Manhunter   (Michael Mann)
1986 – Ginger and Fred   (Federico Fellini)
1986 – Trial on the Road   (Aleksei German)
1987 – Wings of Desire   (Wim Wenders)
1987 – Nayakan   (Mani Ratnam)
1987 – Au Revoir les Enfants   (Louis Malle)
1987 – Babette’s Feast   (Gabriel Axel)
1987 – Predator   (John McTiernan)
1987 – The Dead   (John Huston)
1988 – Grave of the Fireflies   (Isao Takahata)
1988 – Heart of a Dog   (Vladimir Bortko)
1988 – Salaam Bombay!   (Mira Nair)
1988 – Hell Comes to Frogtown   (Donald G. Jackson)
1989 – Dekalog   (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
1990 – Goodfellas   (Martin Scorsese)
1990 – Jacob’s Ladder   (Adrian Lyne)
1990 – Ju Dou   (Yimou Zhang)
1990 – My Mother’s Castle   (Yves Robert)
1991 – The Silence of the Lambs   (Jonathan Demme)
1991 – The Stranger   (Satyajit Ray)
1992 – Unforgiven   (Clint Eastwood)
1992 – Bad Lieutenant   (Abel Ferrara)
1993 – Lan feng zheng   (Zhuangzhuang Tian)
1993 – Farewell My Concubine   (Kaige Chen)
1993 – Groundhog Day   (Harold Ramis)
1993 – In the Name of the Father   (Jim Sheridan)
1993 – Much Ado About Nothing   (Kenneth Branagh)
1993 – Falling Down   (Joel Schumacher)
1993 – The Fugitive   (Andrew Davis)
1994 – Chungking Express   (Kar Wai Wong)
1994 – Ed Wood   (Tim Burton)
1994 – To Live   (Yimou Zhang)
1994 – Forrest Gump   (Robert Zemeckis)
1994 – The Shawshank Redemption   (Frank Darabont)
1994 – Burnt by the Sun   (Nikita Mikhalkov)
1994 – Vanya on 42nd Street   (Louis Malle)
1994 – Quiz Show   (Robert Redford)
1995 – La Haine   (Mathieu Kassovitz)
1995 – The Usual Suspects   (Bryan Singer)
1995 – Se7en   (David Fincher)
1995 – Underground   (Emir Kusturica)
1996 – Sling Blade   (Billy Bob Thornton)
1996 – Trainspotting   (Danny Boyle)
1996 – When We Were Kings   (Leon Gast)
1996 – Microcosmos   (Claude Nuridsany)
1996 – The Cable Guy   (Ben Stiller)
1997 – The Eel   (Shohei Imamura)
1997 – Donnie Brasco   (Mike Newell)
1997 – The Fifth Element   (Luc Besson)
1997 – Men in Black   (Barry Sonnenfeld)
1998 – The Big Lebowski   (Brothers Coen)
1998 – Festen   (Thomas Vinterberg )
1998 – Black Cat, White Cat   (Emir Kusturica)
1999 – Being John Malkovich   (Spike Jonze)
2000 – Requiem for a Dream   (Darren Aronofsky)
2000 – Yi Yi   (Edward Yang)
2000 – Amores Perros   (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
2000 – You Can Count on Me   (Kenneth Lonergan)
2000 – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon   (Ang Lee)
2001 – Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner   (Zacharias Kunuk)
2002 – Russian Ark   (Aleksandr Sokurov)
2002 – City of God   (Fernando Meirelles)
2002 – Hero   (Yimou Zhang)
2002 – The Pianist   (Roman Polanski)
2002 – Infernal Affairs   (Wai-keung Lau)
2002 – Distant   (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2003 – The Return   (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2003 – The Triplets of Belleville   (Sylvain Chomet)
2003 – American Splendor   (Shari Springer Berman)
2003 – Dogville   (Lars von Trier)
2003 – Monster   (Patty Jenkins)
2003 – Oldeuboi   (Chan-wook Park)
2003 – The Best of Youth   (Marco Tullio Giordana)
2003 – Evil   (Mikael Håfström)
2003 – Slings and Arrows   (tv series)
2004 – Downfall   (Oliver Hirschbiegel)
2004 – Kung Fu Hustle   (Stephen Chow)
2004 – Layer Cake   (Matthew Vaughn)
2004 – Million Dollar Baby   (Clint Eastwood)
2004 – The Chorus   (Christophe Barratier)
2004 – Head-On   (Fatih Akin)
2005 – No Direction Home: Bob Dylan   (Martin Scorsese)
2005 – Good Night, and Good Luck   (George Clooney)
2005 – C.R.A.Z.Y.   (Jean-Marc Vallée)
2006 – Bug   (William Friedkin)
2006 – In Search of Mozart   (Phil Grabsky)
2006 – Letters from Iwo Jima   (Clint Eastwood)
2006 – The Lives of Others   (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
2006 – Children of Men   (Alfonso Cuarón)
2006 – Pan’s Labyrinth   (Guillermo del Toro)
2006 – Jar City   (Baltasar Kormákur)
2006 – Fireworks Wednesday   (Asghar Farhadi)
2007 – 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days   (Cristian Mungiu)
2007 – [Rec]   (Jaume Balagueró)
2007 – Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan   (Sergey Bodrov)
2007 – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford   (Andrew Dominik)
2007 – No Country for Old Men   (Brothers Coen)
2007 – Atonement   (Joe Wright)
2007 – Sophie Scholl: The Final Days   (Marc Rothemund)
2007 – L’âge des ténèbres   (Denys Arcand)
2007 – My Winnipeg   (Guy Maddin)
2007 – The Banishment   (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2008 – Let the Right One In   (Tomas Alfredson)
2008 – Revanche   (Götz Spielmann)
2008 – Yip Man   (Wilson Yip)
2008 – The Chaser   (Hong-jin Na)
2008 – Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog   (Joss Whedon)
2008 – Everlasting Moments   (Jan Troell)
2008 – In Bruges   (Martin McDonagh)
2008 – Ce qu’il faut pour vivre   (Benoît Pilon)
2008 – Gran Torino   (Clint Eastwood)
2008 – Changeling   (Clint Eastwood)
2008 – Le jour avant le lendemain   (Marie-Hélène Cousineau)
2009 – In Search of Beethoven   (Phil Grabsky)
2009 – A Prophet   (Jacques Audiard)
2009 – The Secret in Their Eyes   (Juan José Campanella)
2009 – Mother   (Joon-ho Bong)
2009 – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo   (Niels Arden Oplev)
2009 – The White Ribbon   (Michael Haneke)
2009 – Watchmen   (Zack Snyder)
2009 – District 9   (Neill Blomkamp)
2009 – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest   (Daniel Alfredson)
2009 – Antichrist   (Lars von Trier)
2009 – Darbareye Elly   (Asghar Farhadi)
2010 – The Ghost Writer   (Roman Polanski)
2010 – Enthiran   (S. Shankar)
2010 – Shutter Island   (Martin Scorsese)
2010 – Trollhunter   (André Øvredal)
2010 – Luther   (Neil Cross)
2011 – Source Code   (Duncan Jones)
2011 – Contagion   (Steven Soderbergh)
2011 – A Separation   (Asghar Farhadi)
2011 – Jazz   (Ken Burns)
2011 – Downton Abbey   (Julian Fellowes)
2011 – Frozen Planet   (BBC)
2011 – Haywire   (Steven Soderbergh)
2011 – Elena   (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2011 – Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory   (Joe Berlinger)
2011 – We Need to Talk About Kevin   (Lynne Ramsay)
2011 – Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol   (Brad Bird)
2011 – Hodejegerne   (Morten Tyldum)
2011 – Once Upon a Time in Anatolia   (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2011 – The Intouchables   (Olivier Nakache)
2011 – Oslo, 31. august   (Joachim Trier)
2011 – Homeland   (tv series)
2012 – Looper   (Rian Johnson)
2012 – No   (Pablo Larraín)
2012 – Searching for Sugar Man   (Malik Bendjelloul)
2012 – Silver Linings Playbook   (David O. Russell)
2012 – Jack Reacher   (Christopher McQuarrie)
2012 – Chasing Ice   (Jeff Orlowski)
2012 – The Hunt   (Thomas Vinterberg )
2012 – Laurence Anyways   (Xavier Dolan)
2013 – Gravity   (Alfonso Cuarón)
2013 – Prisoners   (Denis Villeneuve)
2013 – Nebraska   (Alexander Payne)
2013 – Europa Report   (Sebastián Cordero)
2013 – American Hustle   (David O. Russell)
2013 – The Great Beauty   (Paolo Sorrentino)
2013 – The Lunchbox   (Ritesh Batra)
2013 – Enemy   (Denis Villeneuve)
2013 – Ida   (Pawel Pawlikowski)
2013 – Mandariinid   (Zaza Urushadze)
2013 – Le passé   (Asghar Farhadi)
2013 – Like Father, Like Son   (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2014 – The Grand Budapest Hotel   (Wes Anderson)
2014 – True Detective   (tv series)
2014 – Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)   (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
2014 – Force Majeure   (Ruben Östlund)
2014 – Leviathan   (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2014 – The Theory of Everything   (James Marsh)
2014 – Selma   (Ava DuVernay)
2014 – Mommy   (Xavier Dolan)
2014 – Winter Sleep   (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2014 – Pride   (Matthew Warchus)
2015 – Blackhat   (Michael Mann)
2015 – Room   (Lenny Abrahamson)
2015 – Black Mass   (Scott Cooper)
2015 – Sicario   (Denis Villeneuve)
2015 – Brooklyn   (John Crowley)
2015 – Embrace of the Serpent   (Ciro Guerra)
2015 – High-Rise   (Ben Wheatley)
2015 – Chappie   (Neill Blomkamp)
2015 – An Inspector Calls   (Aisling Walsh)
2016 – Forushande   (Asghar Farhadi)
2016 – O.J.: Made in America   (Ezra Edelman)
2016 – 13th   (Ava DuVernay)
2016 – I Am Not Your Negro   (Raoul Peck)
2017 – Loveless   (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
2017 – The Square   (Ruben Östlund)
2017 – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri   (Martin McDonagh)
2017 – The Insult   (Ziad Doueiriht)
2017 – Loving Vincent   (Dorota Kobiela)
2017 – The Rider   (Chloé Zhao)
2017 – Indian Horse   (Stephen S. Campanelli)
2017 – Salyut-7   (Klim Shipenko)
2018 – The Wild Pear Tree   (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
2018 – Roma   (Alfonso Cuarón)
2018 – BlacKkKlansman   (Spike Lee)
2018 – Minding the Gap   (Bing Liu)
2018 – Cold War   (Pawel Pawlikowski)
2018 – Shoplifters   (Hirokazu Koreeda)
2018 – Capernaum   (Nadine Labaki)
2019 – Apollo 11   (Todd Douglas Miller)
2019 – Chernobyl   (tv series)
2019 – The Irishman   (Martin Scorsese)
2019 – Jojo Rabbit   (Taika Waititi)
2019 – Truth and Justice   (Tanel Toom)
2019 – Sound of Metal   (Darius Marder)
2020 – The Social Dilemma   (Jeff Orlowski)
2020 – Mank   (David Fincher)
2020 – The Trial of the Chicago 7   (Aaron Sorkin)
2020 – Nomadland   (Chloé Zhao)
2021 – JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass   (Oliver Stone)
2021 – The Rescue   (Jimmy Chin)
2021 – The Tragedy of Macbeth   (Brothers Coen)
2021 – A Hero   (Asghar Farhadi)

It’s the most common dementia for people under 60. But FTD, or Frontotemporal degeneration, is little known today, even for doctors.

As the disease progresses, the person affected may experience increasing difficulty in planning or organizing activities. They may behave inappropriately in social or work settings, and have trouble communicating with others, or relating to loved ones.

Shady Grove my little miss
 Shady Grove my darling
 Shady Grove my little miss
 I’m going back to Harlan
 

 Every time I walk this road
 It’s always dark and cloudy
 Every time I see that girl
 I always tell her howdy
 

 If you see my little miss
 If you see my darling
 If you see my little miss
 Tell her I’m going to Harlan

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

— Hosea  4:13