"The general public" doesn't watch Pillow Talk, either. Thanks for supporting my point.

"[Triplets of Belleville] won an Oscar for Best Original Song"
Yeah, I wish, but no. It went to that p.o.s. by Annie Lennox for Lord of the Rings.

No, it's a terrible article. For one thing Sedooteh mixes up a number of different complaints - whether some actors 'project' their homosexuality, whether the audience projects the actors' private lives onto their performances, whether openly gay actors are even capable of (in his words) 'pulling it off' - into a…

Setoodeh also took flak because
his article made no sense. He tries to string together a couple of disparate examples, has no interest in giving due weight to counterevidence, and contradicts his own thesis. It's a mess of an argument that I suppose he meant to be thought-provoking, but he doesn't have the chops to…

He'll always be the Artist in Igby Goes Down to me.
"Moneybuckets, take me away!"

Honestly I don't think to much about it. It's whatever's on the screen in front of me, and I'm not worried about how much of it is accurate or not. I know that should affect how I feel about the people/characters, but the things I liked best - like that extended sequence where she draws him while answering questions…

Hoax or not,
Angela makes for a compelling study, and I found the film a lot more sensitive to her than I'd have expected, given the clueless (on-screen) narcissism of the filmmakers. It's weird that a movie like this would have had me coming out the theater feeling buoyant, but I did, and I was glad for the…

Loved it.
Could have been (and should have been) a cheap exercise in narcissism and irony, but the last third of the film is just exceptional. And unexpected.

Ah, thanks for the info. Wide release or limited?

Here's hoping Apichatpong gets a distributor.
I've seen anything of his I could get my hands on, but to date none of them on the big screen. If I loved Tropical Malady and Syndromes and a Century on a television, I have to imagine it's pretty mind-blowing in a theatre… someone pick up Uncle Boonmee, please?

I liked the first 2/3 of Sunshine: if nothing else, Boyle has a really tactile approach to science fiction that's not too common. Then … I don't know what happens, but the rest is pretty awful.

Abstract versus Representational Art
Try thinking less political totalitarianism and more religious, and you'll find plenty of examples where abstract art is tolerated and representative art is not.

Baxter: I'll back you up. Millions is easily Boyle's best film.

Okay, I love RE4, but it had a really terrible plot: it's like they made a list of horror movie staples (the creepy village! the creepy cathedral! the creepy bunker! the creepy hospital!) and strung it all together in the most ridiculously implausible way imaginable. It works great as a game because, hey, it IS…

Nicolas Roeg.
That one's been discussed on the site before, but I can't think of many directors who shot out the gate so brilliantly, and then… what the hell happened?

Less a parody of the film Titanic,
and more part-and-parcel of the extended parody on race and wealthy liberalism. Fry's line about how spending two weeks in the sewers will help him understand how mutants live (and Leela's reaction shot) is a pretty sharp bit of commentary, for a show that usually keeps its satire…

I like the film, but
the problem with adapting Dahl is that most of his adapters don't trust Dahl enough: where Dahl can be comically understated, they feel like they have to underline every single beat. The opening rhinoceros is perfect case in point: Dahl's version is so dry, you have to laugh at both the absurdity…

Agape Agape is quite good, too, if a little unsatisfying. It might make a good one-man stage show, since it's a single monologue.

William Gaddis' JR, for the win.
First page of that novel is one of my favorite openings, in the way it sets out its parameters - once you figure out how to understand what you're reading, the rest of the novel breezes by.

I'll back you up on this one, Zack:
I laughed a lot during this episode, but I'm getting a little tired of the nagging woman/stupid man dynamic.