Must shout out Mica Levi’s extraordinary score.

He did note that his hairline is higher on this side. Worth it for that fantastic Sam-Neill-fumbling-with-sunglasses impression.

She made a strong impression in THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE, released just a couple of months after GHOST WORLD.

Of course it should read “completely,” but thanks for nothing, 15-minute edit function

I am entirely in the States as well, but that’s not what makes me funny

It’s remarkably effective. I didn’t notice any artifice either. I think one of the things that really sells it is that the screen is bright enough to actually cast interactive light on the actors. You can tell, instinctually, that they haven’t been matted in.

It’s not a projection setup, but a massive LED array running active CG backgrounds through a gaming engine:

I was expecting the Bone Broth deal to fall apart due to the revelation of some appalling process or ingredient required to make it. Leaving out the salt was a smart dodge.

I can’t find the exact quote, but Pauline Kael described Dennehy in F/X as giving a performance worthy of John Wayne— if Wayne had been an actor.

That facial twitch after she drinks the moonshine on Parks is one of my favorite bits of non-verbal acting ever.

The Cheat is not dead!

I WANT that 2001 helmet.

Strong, Redd, and Villasenor were all MIA. But here’s Villasenor anyway:

LIGHT SLEEPER is indeed great. Make that six for the cult.

You sound like someone familiar with the late great Geocities page “Bond Smells a Rat,” thankfully preserved here:

Yeah, FRWL doesn’t even have a giant Ken Adam set.

I’m assuming John Landis.

People forget that the OT films were all fairly economical productions. And in the case of Empire and Jedi, independently-funded ones.

JEDI was shot using a different lens package than the first two-- JDC-Scope instead of Panavision. I’m assuming that was a cost-cutting move.

oh my god the interview clips