He's pretty reliably one-on, one-off with his best features so Gone Girl will probably be amazing and whatever he makes after it forgettable but mostly enjoyable jet-black fluff.

A lot of it has to do with the size of the format, now that a lot of consumer cameras are using crop and micro sensors that are smaller than 35mm it's easier to design fast lenses for those systems. You can buy a f/0.95 lens and couple it with a metabones speed booster on a heavily cropped camera like a Blackmagic…

It was only 35mm. It would have been next to impossible to design the ultra fast lens they used for much of the candle light scenes for 70mm. Generally the bigger the format the harder it is to make a lens with a fast aperture to work with it just because of the sheer amount of glass that would be needed.

It was also shot on 5D mark IIs so shooting it in the monochrome mode would have applied an extra layer of compression to the initial footage. I'm not saying it's a great looking movie but I can understand why they shot it the way they did. The White Ribbon was shot using the same post conversion method but to much…

Leaving out movies watched for film and culture classes later on, I went to a high school with a decent number of lazy cinephiles in the English and History departments. One teacher showed us North by Northwest and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest even though nothing related to those were part of the curriculum, in…

Corpsecock? Sold.

Herzog's gets my vote for being one of the few remakes that improved upon the original. Murnau's is great but there is some silent film creakiness to it that both adds to its charm and makes certain parts of it tedious.

I love how dependably this show approaches character development with the attitude of a lazy college student with an encroaching deadline. "Oh shit, this character is getting written off the show in 30 minutes, better start fleshing them out."

Is it 4 or 5 that has the little girl picking up the torch at the end for Michael? I remember watching all of these in a week when I was a teenager but not much seems to have stuck.

It's probably harder to answer since there are so many abysmal films at various levels of cinema below what gets even a limited theatrical release; Independent, Video Art, Made for TV.

Frederick Wiseman is kind of Neutral in a detached kind of way.

Actually the FBI gives a conservative estimate of there being 30-50 serial killers on the loose in the United States at any given time. Although that number is based on the FBI's rather low criteria of having committed 2 or more murders on separate occasions.

I don't believe it but it's worth noting that things like this have happened before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

I think that's because the really shitty filmic adaptations of his books don't become really popular cultural touchstones and most of the other good King adaptations stayed a bit closer to his original intentions.

Trashing Con Air? Between this and the Grifters piece today is a big day for the new batch to shit on the old AV Club critics' darlings in the opening three sentences of their reviews.

And then on the final episode they find out who Cartman's dad is.

Aujourd'hui maman est petit-mort.

To be fair Autechre albums are only really digested properly once two subsequent Autechre albums have been released and listened to.

They'd have to change it in four seasons.

Pretty sure Tin Machine was his nadir. Unless you only want to count solo stuff, in which case it's Hours.