question for "old film" buffs
When people talk about a silent picture being "as good as it would have been at the 1920s premiere" I always wonder, what was the movie projection experience like in the 1920s? Was it basically what it is now, only in black in white (and no sound, obviously)? Or were some of the "old…

Sheesh, I like Buster Keaton movies too but I don't write a freakin' essay about them.

Something I've always wondered but don't want to bother looking up: did the Range have a drummer? The fads of 1980s production make it really hard to tell synthesized drums from real ones. Certainly they wanted to sound as if they used a drum machine on a lot of tracks if they didn't. I never got that aspect of…

man
At first I thought all of these lists were slighting comedies in favor of other genres… then I racked my brain.. and realized, wow, the 00s were a pretty bad time for comedies. (I'd forgotten State and Main. Good call.)

hrm
Ones I don't understand in your top list: The Prestige (good, but not top 50 good), Children of Men (okay, I get that a lot of people loved this, but I personally don't get it), 25th hour (not that good).

I liked Death Proof overall, but Zoe Bell really can't act (or shouldn't act, I can't tell which). I liked how Tarantino brings back some of the spirit of the old 70s trash films and builds suspense by having long segments of nothing happening in the first half of the movie, but the whole women's revenge thing at the…

What about the hamburger-making minigame you need to play to earn money in the middle of Space Quest IV?

sigh
Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker: "The whole conceit [of the "Freakonomics" franchise] is that a dispassionate, statistically minded thinker can find patterns and answers in the data that those who are emotionally invested in the material will have missed." Well, replace "dispassionate" with "smug and…

Interesting points.

gettin it
The _song_ in its entirety, or the album?

you missed one, hipsters
I'm assuming the only reason "Shasta McNasty" isn't on this list is because it started in fall '99.

also
his "smug tone" also infects his fiction, which as far as I have seen, all sucks.

Woah, good eye! I didn't notice that.

the Halfway to a Threeway EP
Get it, listen to it, love it.

It may interest you to know that Max von Sydow played Sylvester Stallone's partial father in the movie adaptation of "Judge Dredd."

nice review
I liked this a lot, it captured a lot of what I like about the movie and it should inspire people to watch it.

The baby _looked_ at you?

#1 unasked question
So, uh, what's _right_ with Lars von Trier?

I nominate "Hollywood After Dark," aka the movie with Rue McClanahan as an aspiring actress turned stripper, as the perfect indie rock movie of all time.

request
how about something (anything) from "Night of the Hunter"?