@Scrawler2:disqus : That's very kind!  The semester ended recently so I have a little more time to spend tooling around online.  It's always a pleasure chatting with you here.

@Scrawler2:disqus : it's really not worth sitting through the two hours of mostly mediocre-to-bad shorts, so I'd recommend just watching it online (here).  It somehow manages to build an organic harmony between humor, banality, and genuine emotional depth.  It starts as a one-note joke that slowly unpeels layer upon…

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I think @Scrawler2:disqus is saying that many of us don't have the luxury of being able to indulge our biases if we want to participate in mainstream viewing.  I don't find women sexually attractive, but if I carried that into every film that treated the female form sexually, I'd never watch anything.

@avclub-7f68422276660d58678fd00fade583fb:disqus : Agreed.  I don't have any problem with stunt casting in general (I loved Solondz's Palindromes), but the weird part about Life During Wartime is that, with one or two exceptions, everyone seemed to be doing bad impressions of the previous actors (and the worst parts of…

Yeah.  There's a lot that's cheesy about Sunrise, but I'm still head-over-heels for the sequence near the end that revists all the places they walked, showing them largely empty in the early morning.  Quasi-spoilerish:  [There's a brief rhyme in Midnight that I loved (when the camera lingers on the various objects in…

I prefer the whole "death of the author" way of reading, but for other readers: Bradbury was pretty adamant that he didn't intend it to be about censorship at all, but about the dangers of television.  If anyone cares what he thinks.

I remember leaving TMWWT and thinking "Give Tony Shalhoub all the awards!" and being really moved at the shaving scene, then being surprised at how little people cared for it.   I dunno if I'd put it in their top tier of films, but I'm always happy to see some warmth shown its way.

@Scrawler2:disqus : ASM's ending would be my biggest emotional reaction were it not for 1. H.I.'s dream at the end of Raising Arizona and 2. Marge's questioning of Grimsrud at the end of Fargo, both of which reduce me to jelly.

The ending of that movie is just insanely good.

I'm willing to forgive the Lebowski thing because it seems like a much more idiosyncratic piece (it took me a few tries before something clicked).

@avclub-ef062084a1c4a3584af1d4f8e514ea50:disqus : Yeah, it's half-open and literally right behind them in the shot.

Hrm.  I'm with you in that most therapy movies are bad, but there's no inherent connection between drama, subtext, and therapy in the way you're laying it out.  Therapy only brings stuff to the surface if the screenwriter uses it as a lazy crutch to bring things to the surface.  But therapy can be just as elusive, and…

@avclub-85d8ce590ad8981ca2c8286f79f59954:disqus : but it's the first act I have my problem with, too.  The parents sit around mugging at each other for three or four minutes when they could be, I dunno, opening closet doors or looking around the house while still conveying the same information, only in a more…

how about you reread the first sentence of my second paragraph?

I wish I could join you in your admiration for "Little Girl Lost", but the characters act in such implausible ways (even for a TZ episode) that I never get past the eye-rolling.  In the opening sequence I keep waiting for the parents to do normal things like… open the closet door behind them?  Or look somewhere around…

@avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus : heh, that's funny, because the only friend I've convinced to watch it loved the first half and loathed the second.

Thanks!  I'm curious about the Hernandez one in particular.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus : Seriously.  I thought any list starting off with Alain Delon couldn't be that bad, but then…

For your penance, here's the French edition of GQ with "The Best-Looking Moustaches in Cinema", which is a very French thing to do.