It's a comma.

It's a C+, though apparently your comment inspired somebody and it mistakenly says C- as I type this.

Sorry, that went right over my head. Been too long since I watched F&G, I guess.

I'm not trying to show I'm not overly reverent. I'm expressing exactly the same range of subjective opinion I do when it comes to contemporary films. There are universally acclaimed recent movies I agree are masterpieces (e.g. A Separation), universally acclaimed recent movies I think are just pretty darn good (e.g.…

I actually would give Casablanca an A-.

Agreed that it's groundbreaking and influential, but that doesn't make it a masterpiece.

I've seen Herzog's film, but it was way back in 1996 (I actually saw both on the same day, checking my log) and I don't remember exactly what I thought of it, though I'm pretty sure I dug it. Due for a revisit.

Actually they bond over Joan Baez, not Joni Mitchell. Mitchell reportedly refused to give them the rights to her song. Good job Joni.

I think the "I am God" monologue is likely Sorkin's, especially now that I've learned how frequently he uses the "sick at sea" bit. But the bulk of the scene doesn't feel like his work to me. Still, I'm just guessing.

That's perhaps technically true w/r/t TV news. But 'chyron' is increasingly being used to signify any explanatory onscreen text, because there hadn't previously been a simple word for that. "Text overlay" is pretty inelegant.

The movie wasn't actually shot in IMAX, correct? My experiences with what I think of as fake IMAX have been less than dazzling, more akin to 70mm blowups of 35mm films.

"I don't find her complaints annoying at all, but instead a thematic exposure of her prison."

I don't think we're meant to see her as mentally unbalanced. On the contrary, the death of her son has exposed the world as mentally unbalanced. As noted elsewhere, Rossellini explicitly stated his desire to make a modern-day St. Francis story—his (R's) contention is that sainthood will always be perceived by the…

Not a big fan of Beyond the Hills. Not a big fan of Bresson's spiritual films. Not a big fan of religion in general. It's a fair assessment. That said, I maintain that Europe '51 "cheats" by e.g. not simply having Bergman tell her husband what she's doing, rather than allow him to mistakenly think that she's cheating…

I'm not suggesting that Bergman should have been cast as a peasant. I'm simply noting that the story, as conceived, involves a lot of whining by a character who's appalled at having to live in what she perceives as horrible conditions. I specifically note that this is "by design" in a parenthetical that Wallet…

There are no opening credits of any kind on the broadcast episode, either, just bare-bones closing credits (cast included). I suspect that's a strategic decision related to Damian Lewis not appearing in the episode yet still contractually having to be second-billed. It'll be interesting to see if the original credits…

Abortion, give the baby up for adoption (which the woman says she doesn't think she could emotionally handle), keep a baby you can't take care of.

Obviously I was prepared for this reaction. My "explanation" (which is really just personal taste) is that I think Lubitsch made films that are much better than this one: Trouble In Paradise (one of my 20 or so favorite films of all time), Angel (hugely underrated), Ninotchka, The Shop Around The Corner, etc. Before…

OKAY, SPOILER FOR THE ENDING (which I'll rot13; plug it into rot13.com):

It opened commercially in New York. I saw it myself during its brief run.