Good list. Re: Public Enemies, I'll counter that it hit me hard, emotionally. Marion Cotillard's final scene had me in tears. Of course, that's a subjective perspective.

I'll bite too. Much as I don't want to reduce ZMF to a mere running joke, why get annoyed by someone who just wants to give us his interesting perspective on matter of ownage, bitches, and your mother? He's an AV Club institution. Long may he own.

@Rowsdower, after I saw Inglourious Basterds I thought it would be in my 2009 top three along with Public Enemies and In The Loop. After seeing it again, I just don't see how anything can top it. It's absolutely magnificent, and I've learned to ignore all of this nonsense about being too flabby. After the second…

That was 700m too many for my poor feet, so I didn't get to see that. What I meant was, do we even get to see the river in the other direction, i.e. did Carax try to show l'ile de la cite at all? I would doubt he did, what the budgetary constraints of constructing the bridge and surrounding environs. Which i all I was…

Great fun
This was the shlockiest drive-in style horror movie made this year that wasn't directed by Sam Raimi. The movie dispenses with absolutely any semblance of plot or characterisation, playing up the disposable nature of it as much as possible. References are made to roller-coaster rides, and part of the film is…

Those two might have made a good mix with My Dinner With Andre, but hasn't that already been done in NCC?

Lulu is indeed the Auster movie. I didn't think it ever got released. Am I wrong? I hope I'm wrong. I'd love to see it.

@danrimage, I've been lucky with the Paris-set movies I've seen, as they made the city look beautiful and exciting, but nothing could top the actual experience. I've only been there once, but I fell head over heels for it. Our actual touchstone when we went was Before Sunset, and we had planned to follow in Delpy &…

Determined to keep this thread going
Pathetic, yes, but I just noticed this poster of Eli Roth grinning like a loon, holding his baseball bat:

Pont-Neuf
Back when UK's Channel 4 used to show interesting European movies in the dead of night instead of the choad it currently squeezes out, I was lucky enough to stumble across Mauvais Sang. Up to that point in my life, I'd never seen anything with such style and imagination.

Good work, Mr. Tobias
I am now absolutely desperate to see this movie. Job well done.

teadoust, trust me, a movie doesn't have to have a million layers for me to like it. I'm the guy who has spent the past year running around like Kevin McCarthy in the first two Body Snatchers movies, screaming at everyone that Speed Racer is a wonderful bit of entertainment that deserves to be reappraised. It's not…

Wow, *this* Lauren Weedman?

Any depth IB has (which I think it does) is not just confined to the morality of the characters. It's got things to say about language, culture (from the 1930s onward), honour, punishment and reward. I'm probably missing more themes that others will have spotted. Since seeing it I've spent more time thinking about it…

I too love this movie, and will Nerf-duel anyone who disagrees. Sadly, this means the rest of my life will be spent firing foam bullets at people. Y'all a buncha haters.

What's pretentious about that? Sounds like a fair comment to me, though I have, until Basterds, preferred his brattier movies, hence my relative disregard for Jackie Brown.

Re: German translators, that's what I thought was happening, but I think at some point in the film that rule is broken. I can't remember when it was, but I'm sure it happened because I remember thinking, "Okay, now I don't know what he's doing."

I think Tarantino has explicitly said Zoller was partly based on Audie Murphy.

I noticed he'd worked with them before, but I didn't know about Zoe Bell. Thanks for that.

Cross-project reference win!