Didn't you get the memo?
You know, the Jungian thing.

The club shootout in Collateral
This may be for purely aesthetic reasons, but I love the way Michael Mann uses Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go" (albeit remixed with Korean lyrics) for the Club Fever sequence in Collateral. I'm not a huge techno fan, and I didn't even know the name of the song or musician until I…

@i and 1

RE: The "Suggest A Pilgrimage" voting war
RE: http://www.avclub.com/poppi…

RE: "Hey, look at that building a mile away!"

In "Directors You Didn't Know You Hated"?

"Oh, and the White House getting blown up."

Mimi Leder, Roland Emmerich
Thanks to my 'Women & Films' elective course in film school, and I learned that I hated Mimi Leder (Pay It Forward, Deep Impact).

Slightly off topic, but regarding typecasting ignorance, I had a friend in Germany (RIP) who only knew of Rodney Dangerfield from Natural Born Killers. I had to explain to him what I meant by it being a "subversive casting choice" because he was like "What do you mean? He looked like he fit the part." Always amuses me…

@Meadow Enthusiast - Yes! The Three Seashells continue to have more longevity than most ideas from Stallone films.

Hangover on the Midnight Meat Train
Speak for yourselves. I only knew Bradley Cooper from the Clive Barker adaptation The Midnight Meat Train. You'll never guess what he played: a burnt out photographer. What the hell is a bloodied, newly carnivorous Clive Barker protagonist doing in a wedding comedy? From my…

Anatomy of a Scene - literally
Lars Von Trier's "Anatomy of a Scene". With "anatomy" taken literally in the medical sense.

Poorly worded last sentence. To rephrase: past authors/defectors & small publishers have been crushed by the COS legal department (and Amazon's refused to sell), but the COS doesn't stand a chance at banning Inside Scientology. And if they tried, they'd kick up even worse PR for themselves (if that's possible) since…

Recommended reading:
http://www.rotten.com/libra…

Actually, the history of Hubbard & Aleister Crowley are slightly intertwined. Hubbard lied about Crowley being a "very good friend of mine", and Crowley wrote a letter to his CA OTO correspondent wherein he accused LRH of being a "confidence man" who was swindling (and DID end up stealing from) Jack Parsons, rocket…

the name gag
"Foley scans the room for another name and unfortunately settles for the one on the doctor's nametag. Needless to say, she's not buying that Foley is named "Dr. Emma Harris," either."

"New-to-me old music," that's a good phrase. Most of the music I do check out is from the past & bands that are no longer functional (Joy Division qualifies for the latter, obviously). I've really gotten into Killing Joke in the last few years.

Maybe, I'd like to think, Anderson is presenting a misleading narrative at this stage of publicity. So he can get the film made without Scientologists harassing him & sabotaging the film's production. And then we'll be pleasantly surprised when the finished result IS a scathing indictment of Scientology. If he summed…

I'm 28. I relate to so many of your points J Mann. I've said in more than one conversation "Rather than listen to (INSERT NEOCLASSICAL/DARKWAVE MUSICIAN) I'd rather just listen again to my Dead Can Dance albums & discover more nuances & textures."

The Dead Pool
I'm most likely alone in this, but my favorite chase sequence is from the final Dirty Harry film THE DEAD POOL, which has a *hilarious* homage to Bullitt's iconic chase sequence. In this case, Harry & his partner find themselves chased by a remote-control toy car with explosives attached. So you see all…