Great point. One aspect of this film that gets misunderstood is that in the 70s, you had this very brief period where porn very nearly transcended its niche to become a legit art form. Films that are today considered part of the softcore porn genre like Emmanuelle and Deep Throat were big hits in the states, saw…

Fuck Godzilla. It's all about the return of the Star Wars franchise. I mean did you SEE the teaser poster for Episode 1 where little Annakin casts a giant, Vader shaped shadow? Ain't no way that movie won't be awesome.

I hope they release them on flipper discs! That way the boxset will be half the size, so I can fit it on my shelf with all the CDRs containing those AVIs I downloaded from Napster!

Boooo-urrnnns!

Or when it's barebones without bonus content.

Roxanne!

"We're not going to let you just walk out of here…."

WOW! A DVD Standard Def release in 2014! I can't wait for the blu-ray high def in ten years when optical media had been all but subsumed by streaming 4K.

Oh yeah, I remember each fall semester, a few weeks in they'd have poster day on the quad where they'd set up a bunch of booths selling posters. It was totally marketed to freshman looking to decorate their dorm rooms, and the two most popular poster themes were Travis Bickle and Bluto from "Animal House." Oh, that…

I believe Scorsese has left the interpretation open to debate, but has personally said he feels Bickel lives, that the fact he is praised as a hero is meant as a commentary on how diseased the society in which he lives has become, and the final shot of the weird noise (a bell played in reverse) and his glance through…

Well it may get lost a bit in my retelling, but hearing Altman recall what he said, you can tell he's being a bit tongue in cheek. The implicit point he was making was that it's fucking absurd to think a movie has enough impact or sway as to motivate people to violence. The was trying to look for an easy target (his…

I'm glad "Stories We Tell" got shut out. I really wanted to love this doc, but I came away never feeling so let down by a film. The first 50 minutes were masterful, but the rest was a disaster - hypocritical, self-aggrandizing, opportunistic, and disingenuous.

Fixed….dunno where I got Ivy from…doesn't she go by a few names in the film? I need to rewatch it.

You know what would make for a great double bill? "Taxi Driver," and "Nashville." They have so many similarities. Both are films feature outsiders trying to find a place, and not succeed. Both feature a city is as much a character in the film. Both capture the political atmosphere of the post-Vietnam,…

Reminds me of a similar incident with Robert Altman, whose 1975 film "Nashville" also depicts an act of violence by a stalker on a celebrity. When John Lennon was shot, Altman was asked by reporters if he felt "Nashville" was somehow to blame. Altman, always a sharp wit, said back, "Well, why didn't people listen to…

I think he's self sabotaging as well. He hates himself so much that he projects it onto others, in what has erroneously been called the Madonna-Whore complex, but is really something else, though bearing a similar dichotomy. He holds Betty up on a pedestal ("They…can't…touch…her.") She's angelic, perfect. But when…

Jess: [Farts]

's Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone halloween costume.

He looks like he's trying REAL HARD to pinch a loaf.

What is she even looking at? Half the time I suspect she's distracted by something shiny off somewhere.