ANOTHER DOUBLE…
Yes: Infamous is Bullock's last movie. But as with The Lake House, it also plays right into Scott's point about weird temporal schisms (albeit unintentionally): Let's make another Capote movie, as if the first one never existed…

IT WAS PROMOTIONAL
Celine's got a track on that hideous new Ennio tribute CD "I Love Ennio," along with Metallica and Brooce. That's why she was there. How Italian was that "serenade" shot?

Whatevs
At least those shots in I AM CUBA and TOUCH OF EVIL weren't faked in digital post by splicing together several takes — they were actually achieved on set. Planning on telling your readers that? Let's honor Lubeski for a real achievement like ALI, not this.

ON A ROLL
Mouchette's death scene? Aw, you've never seen it!

IRONIC APPRECIATION?
Even the die-hard May fans (self included) who attended the special screening of ISHTAR last February at Lincoln Center had a hard time mustering up polite applause, much less staying the whole running time. The film plays so terribly; does it help seeing it at home in a bored state of mind? Even…

YOU NAILED IT
His instincts remain faulty ones. But no need to worry. We do agree on ALMOST FAMOUS (and on the best film of 2006, as it happens). Your wording above is exactly to the point: "the 'Tiny Dancer' scene." Not the song, the "scene." I love the scene because it captures road-trip camaraderie and an…

HA HA, A LITTLE SLIPPERY OF YOU…
Yes, he "made the cut," but the very fact that you and I even know about this scene is because he felt the pressing need to restore it in his director's DVD. (Every addition is a mistake.) Anyway, I'm talking about Crowe's instincts: pop-music awkwardness is a fine comedic emotion to…

I DIG MUSIC!
Not to run contrary to Noel and prevailing wisdom (the longer cut must be better, those insensitive studio hacks, etc), I remember the director's cut being much, much worse. Almost all the footage was chopped from the ending, which poses a preposterous corporate comeback for the hero's footwear. The movie…