La Chinoise was made around the same time and i think is even more off-putting than Weekend. It's a didactic rant translated to film. I quite enjoy angry, political Godard but I can easily see how it can be loathed.

True about the length of Rivette's films making them daunting. Around a Small Mountain is the exception, both in regards to length and accessibility. It is also readily available from Netflix. It's difficult if you live in North America, but Celine and Julie Go Boatingis definitely worth a watch if it can be found.…

It's really a shame that Celine and Julie Go Boating is not available in a Region 1 format for DVD. I saw it in a class in college from the professor's personal VHS copy. The quality of the print didn't really do it justice.

Speaking of trailers and the Coen Brothers, I thought the trailers for Inside Llewyn Davis were great. I might be a bit biased in this viewpoint seeing that the premise matched with the filmmakers is right in my wheelhouse.

Musically, she's not terrible. What is terrible is this cult of personality that has enveloped around her. Say one thing negative about her and there's more than a few people ready to rip your tongue out of your mouth. Relax, Swift fans. She can write catchy songs but she is not some Dylan or Cohen level lyrical…

Agreed. Grand Budapest is my least favorite Anderson film. I still like it but I don't think it compares to the pre-Darjeeling films. I don't dislike any of his films. I do think the aesthetic box he has painted himself into resulted in a feeling of sameness that his story or characters have a hard time overcoming…

Night and the City
Out of the Past
Rififi
The Long Goodbye
Dead Reckoning

His performance is pretty close to perfect. It's such a different character than most noir protagonists, especially if comparing it to someone like Bogart or Mitchum.

I didn't see him but I met him in the Nashville airport the day after. I had no idea what happened the previous day. At least I didn't say something false and stupid about how great his set was.

Politically, I think Underground is more pro-Yugoslavia than a piece of Serbian nationalist propaganda. The film has a clear nostalgic view towards the multi-cultural melting pot that was bound to collapse after Tito's death. Dowd makes an important point that Kusturica realizes that Yugoslavia was at best an…

If Don did write the Coke ad, it's an incredibly cynical way to end the show. I can see where a significant amount of people are going to want Don to have a genuine emotional catharsis. Speaking as a fairly cynical person, I like it the more I think about it. If you believe he did create the ad, that's exactly the…

Re-capturing his gift is how I read that final scene also. The last two seasons has shown Don not really able or willing to conform his ideas of the hippie generation. I'm thinking of his being completely out of place at those parties in L.A. in past seasons. Even meditating Don doesn't quite fit completely into…

It does appear to fit perfectly with his character. What I read into it is that the retreat redirected Don back on the path he had always been on. It may have clarified his outlook, which ultimately leads to creating an idea to be sold. Of course it's cynical but it's more logical than Don transforming into a…

I know that Dogtooth gets all the praise, but I like Lanthimos's follow-up Alps just as much. It's about people who are hired are surrogates for family members that have recently passed away. It's not quite as dystopian as his other two films, but still has enough captivating moments to make it worth a watch. It is…

As unlikable as Pete has been over the years, it only seems right that he is falling into a pretty perfect situation. He gets to reconcile with Trudy and get filthy rich with the deal Lear Jet is giving him. He's being rewarded for pulling the anti-Don move.

This season was building such a wall of dread around Don that Betty's condition came as a complete shock. That conclusion makes a lot of sense, but there is still something in the back of my mind that says Don is going to drop of the face of the earth.

The presence of songs like "Smokin From Shootin" and "Touch Me I'm Going to Sream Part 2" more than make up for the weaker parts on that album. I don't hate "Highly Suspicious" either, but it's a song I only want to hear sparingly.

The guitars on "Believe (Nobody Knows)" made me think this was going to be a throwback MMJ album. While not quite that, on first listen it is a least an improvement over Circuital. The last minute and a half of "Tropics (Erase Traces)" seems to right combination of guitar ferocity and genre hopscotching that have…

One of the greatest sets (by any band) I've ever seen was seeing them play through a thunderstorm at Bonnaroo in 2004. That was also my first time seeing them play. I never felt so unconcerned about possibly being struck by lightning.

Unlike most, I think he does have some credibility in forming an opinion on the situation. Having a response is almost a lose-lose situation for him. Being white and rich automatically places a distance between him and those involved, which makes any opinion suspect, no matter how familiar with Baltimore and its…