And on everyone else's.

Why do you hate your penis?

You definitely should catch some Jean Vigo, and his complete works would barely take you more than two hours. Artificial Eye (I think) had very conveniently issued a set of his complete works.

He's the only composer for whom I'll break my rule of never attending the ENO for stuff that wasn't sung in English in the first place.
He is unfairly underrepresented, I've often seen expressions of love for Shostakovich around these pages (which I share), but Janacek is another one who could be extremely popular with…

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You're off by five, we're at twenty and counting.

I suppose it depends on the nature of the injury, how essential the part is to the show, and if there is an understudy handy.

To be fair, based on the movie, he's not a bad director, just an uninteresting writer.

I'm all for giving artists a chance to develop, but having now watched the film, I don't really see anything interesting about it, and it seems more like a collection of indie-arthouse cliches without understanding why the tropes are used in the first than a cogent attempt at artistic expression.

@avclub-236e42b5af241c85d97910f5c1aa6107:disqus While I understand what you are trying to say, it's a really weird example to pick given that the original ballet of The Rite of Spring has been lost, no one knows what it was like anymore.

Yes, it was obviously the one scene everyone had heard of, and while important, it is in no way representative of the movie.
 
I remember some asshole in the theatre who was there with the clear intention of hating it and being outraged; he spent the whole thing audibly sighing, and started clapping when that scene…

I've only seen the one that was commercially released, but I actually remember a few reviews (from sources I trust(ed)) saying that the cut shown at Cannes was better, and the reputation of the movie is anyway more due to the screening there than anything else.

Have you seen The Brown Bunny? It was never going to be a crossover success, but it deserved a lot better than the drubbing it got.
If you haven't, I guess you'd like it based on your post.

A first draft of my comment also had a mention that it would never have been greenlit and generally couldn't happen with anyone else anyway; or maybe Ben Stiller? but that probably wouldn't have been as good.
Although if I remember correctly, it was a pet project of Robert Smigel for years, and Sandler only became…

I usually don't care for Adam Sandler, but I absolutely love You Don't Mess with the Zohan. Not that it's the kind of movie that would get much more respect from anyone else anyway.

Well, he did have to live in France, isn't that punishment enough?

I'll concur with the other UK people, there even was recently a scandalised article in the paper to complain that he was still getting royalties from some Oasis song that was inspired by him so much he got a songwriting credit on it.

Out of curiosity, what reaction do you expect from a critic on Lost in Translation?

First of all, it's a bit unfair to compare 1984 against Austen's worst. And for all of Orwell's qualities, I don't recall ever seeing him praised for his way with the language the way Austen is (I certainly think she is leagues ahead of pretty much anyone).

Yes, this.
Her novels are the most anti-romantic ever, there is indeed a love story or two, but thinking it's only about this and pretty dresses is missing the point entirely, all the more so that most of her heroines cannot afford pretty dresses.
My main issue with the adaptations is that no matter how faithful or…