I think you meant this?

Before anyone gets their panty in a bunch: Lustig's Maniac was itself pretty much a rip-off of Anton Holden's nudie-shocker Aroused.

Not every film can be Welcome to Mooseport!

The second "official" film is also worth a look although it helps if you know the backstory: it's one of those Shaw films where it seems God himself was trying stop production, with a revolving door of injured stars needing to be replaced/minimized, and at least one major director being replaced by another. It's…

There's actually an argument to be made that the way the media and entertainment landscape has changed has created a situation where that decision could be overturned. It would simply take a studio with the balls to do it.

@crickinmyneck:disqus  I don't know… I could see the thing work like a much-darker "Melvin & Howard". Obviously, the actual gameshow wouldn't be the climax, but mid-point.

It's also likely the he was only doing Community to make up for the lull in his Daily Show schedule, and therefore, keep his work visa in fine order.

"These are today's headlines…. God, I wish they weren't!"

It's a fucking disgrace.

You misread - or I miswrote - I think Boogie Nights is his best film, precisely for that reason.

It's not hard and fast, but it seems they're making FX more drama-centric, and FXX more about comedy. The TNT/TBS dichotomy, so to speak.

Pobre Harvey Keitel…

Is this FX… or FXX? Because the new Sunny promos have proven that the latter is actually happening.

I think tourists are the butt of that joke once again…

A bug-collector, not a writer, but Woman in the Dunes fits the captive and dusty part. Then again, you'd probably remember if they were Japanese.

Probably Yongzheng Dynasty, although Li Han-Hsiang also famously did a series of lavish films in the 80s on the same subject, shot in the Forbidden City.

Counterpoint: Below the Lion Rock, which was to a lot of the Hong Kong New Wave what shows like Omnibus and Play for Today were for British filmmakers like Ken Russell, Ken Loach and Alan Clarke.

If we're talking Japan: the rest of Kage no Gundan. You would think Tarantino reviving the Hatori Hanzo character would have gotten people interested. But only the first season made it out and is long OOP.

Can anyone help?: someone once recommended me a British panel show (game show?) which was all about dissecting advertisement. Never followed up on it, but it was suppose to great.

No La Piovra?! You have dishonered your clan, Todd!