I think critics like Hitchcock and take him seriously because he started in silent films, a very different medium, and he continued to use the same stylized visual language even after the advent of talkies. He made silent movies for his entire career, when people are no longer familiar with the conventions of an…

@avclub-ea93d61158b479315c8e0d4cd003ec35:disqus I agree with you 100%, except I really liked the book. I liked the movie when I was an impressionable teenager, but the last time I sat through it (with a bunch of impressionable teenagers) I realized that I would much prefer and audiobook of the unabridged novel read by…

I said the same thing in a comment above. It is truly my favorite movie of all time. I have no idea how many times I've seen it since I was a kid.

Yes I have, it's one of my favorites. The meat dream is wonderfully disturbing and primal. I went through a phase where I watched nothing but Bunuel and Bergman (it was an interesting time).

@avclub-4a51fda79bbd54b4e7327dd6559b6c4d:disqus I was going to say the same thing. I found Umberto D absolutely devastating and I haven't worked up the nerve to watch it again, or to watch Shoeshine or Bicycle Thieves. The only other De Sica I've seen is Miracle in Milan which was delightful.

Why call them the "Greatest Films of All Time"? It just seems silly, like Ryan Reynolds was People's Sexiest Man of the Year last year, but not this year even though he's still alive (and Bradley Cooper was alive last year). "All time," that is an absolute and by definition wouldn't change. Why not call it "Films you…

Why call them the "Greatest Films of All Time"? It just seems silly, like Ryan Reynolds was People's Sexiest Man of the Year last year, but not this year even though he's still alive (and Bradley Cooper was alive last year). "All time," that is an absolute and by definition wouldn't change. Why not call it "Films you…

Just watched it again, noticed more stuff.

Just watched it again, noticed more stuff.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus I agree with you, I could see him getting rid of Jesse, I just meant the metaphor of Icarus doesn't work for Jesse because he's humble and not at all ambitious.

@avclub-e95a45d0b1f5afdf0ab9cde82b4b1d06:disqus I agree with you, I could see him getting rid of Jesse, I just meant the metaphor of Icarus doesn't work for Jesse because he's humble and not at all ambitious.

When he went to lunch with Gretchen and and said that they abandoned him and stole his work, she kept saying "You can't possibly see it that way" or something like that. I got the impression that he was the one who left in a huff, (maybe the car wash exit was another example) and then turned it around on them. He's…

When he went to lunch with Gretchen and and said that they abandoned him and stole his work, she kept saying "You can't possibly see it that way" or something like that. I got the impression that he was the one who left in a huff, (maybe the car wash exit was another example) and then turned it around on them. He's…

Walt is not looking at the long term. He's in remission but the cancer could come back at any time, he's probably not going to be around all that long and he knows it.

Walt is not looking at the long term. He's in remission but the cancer could come back at any time, he's probably not going to be around all that long and he knows it.

Joan and not Peggy? Then there was Megan and supporting characters like Madame Calvet, Dr. Faye, Anna Draper and her niece, Cynthia Cosgrove, Trudy and Mona Sterling, there are actually lots of sensible, non-bitchy female characters on  Mad Men. I'll agree with you on The Walking Dead but all of the characters, male…

Joan and not Peggy? Then there was Megan and supporting characters like Madame Calvet, Dr. Faye, Anna Draper and her niece, Cynthia Cosgrove, Trudy and Mona Sterling, there are actually lots of sensible, non-bitchy female characters on  Mad Men. I'll agree with you on The Walking Dead but all of the characters, male…

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I guess he never met Don Eladio.