I dunno, this reads like grasping at straws. The take-away most young children get from Richard Scarry books is that hunting for Goldbug is fun (and developmentally challenging). Dude's article was published in 2000 and references studies from the 1930s...I think the scholarship needs updating in terms of how…

+1 to you too. I have just added a bunch of Confidential screen grabs to the film lecture I'm giving later today...shazam!

Yeah I agree that it's just as good if Chinatown...but the more I see both of those films, the more I feel Chinatown as moody and measured...great if you're feeling it, but not as fun and jazzy as Confidential.

Not only do I never get tired of the acting, the sets, the costumes, the humor and the pacing, but somehow I manage to find something subtly new or intriguing about the story every time I watch it...which, at this point, is probably numbering in the triple-digits!

Yeeeeeah, everything done about the Cohen story post-'Confidential' is just gonna twist in the wind. That film remains exquisite on every possible level.

Yeeeeeah, everything done about the Cohen story post-'Confidential' is just gonna twist in the wind. That film remains exquisite on every possible level.

Yeeeeeah, everything done about the Cohen story post-'Confidential' is just gonna twist in the wind. That film remains exquisite on every possible level.

Yeeeeeah, everything done about the Cohen story post-'Confidential' is just gonna twist in the wind. That film remains exquisite on every possible level.

YUMMY.

Good, right? Sounds like a Miyazaki film gone awry!

I have a friend who believes that because pandas are so far off the cute scale that they must actually be agents of evil. He thinks there is a layer of pandas just under the earth's crust and in the End Times, they will erupt to the surface and become our overlords.

New season on its way!!

She's quite good in it, very natural. I do, however, think the film belongs to John Hawkes (swoon).

That's coz the flame bursts are from stock that Doug Trumbull already had. These kind of working tools aren't meant to be kept precious like the actual 35 or 65 film negs - that's probably why they look like crap at this point.

Blade Runner nerds unite!

Hear, hear. I'd also love to see a big fat exhibition the way they did with Star Trek or Harry Potter - think of how awesome it could be - all the stuff from BR plus props etc from films inspired by BR - mind-blowing! Someone get on this!!

They are definitely proto-animatics! Kubrick did the same thing in '2001' for his in-camera stuff. But 'storyboards' are technically for setting up live-action camera moves (or, in animation, setting up camera for animation) before anything is shot. You can tell the film has already been shot in these images.…

Anybody know who did the neat Arthur Rackham-style art for that cover of 'Invisible World?'

Blade Runner Wonder Twin powers, activate!