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East of Eden which is top-shelf Kazan. I also saw the Liam Neeson vehicle, Taken, which was even dumber than I was expecting.

The History of Love is genuinely great. It's flat out funny and a little bit sad. It's very much a book about the power and significance of books. I also enjoyed Man Walks into a Room, but I think anyone would recommend you start with The History of Love.

Also, Lauren Graham's advice scenes are great. She got me with that, "Don't be afraid to act on it." and then the postscript, "in a reasonable way." Not much of a line, but Graham can read laughs into anything.
Her "Don't make the same mistakes I made" speech to Amber in Season 1 is still the highlight of the series…

Anna Nardini is back to haunt Lorelai.
Now all we need is Audrey Horne to show up and steal her boyfriend.

As per usual, Mr. Ebert says it better than I ever could:
http://rogerebert.suntimes….

That's a surprising review.
I enjoyed the heck out of this film. Maybe Tasha has a grander life-experience than me, but I found this movie painfully realistic. None of the details are familiar, but I recognized my petty self and everyone else I know. Scenes From A Marriage it is not, but I thought it was a solid B+.

For some reason, I saw Storytelling first, then Welcome to the Dollhouse and then Happiness. I went in reverse order of essentialness. I've got to get my hands on Palindromes.

I actually just saw Happiness last night
And it's fucking awesome.

Fuck you, you pervert.

Yeah, ST is one of my all-time favorites. It's easy to see why anyone with creative tendencies would love this movie. I'm a fan of all the PS films mentioned here (though I haven't seen the dentist movie yet), but for me, there's ST and then there's the rest of them.

DZ did his own makeup back when he started out in the business.

It's a good shtick, but the woman has written two quality novels.

I'd watch any wrestler playing chess.

Agreed, but it's the difference between an A and an A+. You can't get more ambitious than 2001, but Barry is such a perfect character. Maybe it's my own lacking, but Barry seems to encompass the entire human experience for me.

Barry Lyndon might be my favorite film. You just need give in to the pacing, and then it becomes irresistible.

Sins are legal just because.

I'd say that Stagecoach is like Please Please Me. It's very good in a meat and potatoes kind of way, and the production is clean, but The Beatles went on to do much more interesting work. Of course, Ford was no novice in 1939, so maybe the analogy doesn't quite work.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller definitely belongs in this conversation.

1) My Darling Clementine
2) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
3) Once Upon A Time in the West
4) The Ox-Bow Incident
5) The Shootist