Due to budget cuts in the community college system out here in CA, I've been generally underemployed as an adjunct.  As a result I've been tutoring high school kids in AP subjects.  It's a night and day difference, as in this endeavor the job involves monitoring whether or not the kids are doing the work or teaching…

Due to budget cuts in the community college system out here in CA, I've been generally underemployed as an adjunct.  As a result I've been tutoring high school kids in AP subjects.  It's a night and day difference, as in this endeavor the job involves monitoring whether or not the kids are doing the work or teaching…

Going for the De Niro trifecta:  the 35 year cut in ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA.

Going for the De Niro trifecta:  the 35 year cut in ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA.

My vote goes to the end of PRINCE OF DARKNESS.

My vote goes to the end of PRINCE OF DARKNESS.

Wow—26 hours and no mention of JACKIE BROWN yet—What happened A.V. Club?  Your ass used to be so beautiful.

Wow—26 hours and no mention of JACKIE BROWN yet—What happened A.V. Club?  Your ass used to be so beautiful.

In retrospect, she was pretty good in it.

In retrospect, she was pretty good in it.

I had a terrific evening about 8 years ago following a documentary symposium at the Motion Picture Academy.  The panel (which included Werner Herzog, Penelope Spheeris, Stacey Paralta and several others including McElwee)  Was sensational, with Herzog pulling his usual schtick.  McElwee was kind of the odd man out,…

I had a terrific evening about 8 years ago following a documentary symposium at the Motion Picture Academy.  The panel (which included Werner Herzog, Penelope Spheeris, Stacey Paralta and several others including McElwee)  Was sensational, with Herzog pulling his usual schtick.  McElwee was kind of the odd man out,…

Also try catching NO MAN OF HER OWN, a bizarre but thoroughly entertaining Howard Hughes produced debacle where Mitchum is dispatched by gangsters on some weird mission to a swanky Mexican resort to perform a task that neither he (or perhaps the writers) understand.  Jane Russell (who else ) is there for the sake of…

Also try catching NO MAN OF HER OWN, a bizarre but thoroughly entertaining Howard Hughes produced debacle where Mitchum is dispatched by gangsters on some weird mission to a swanky Mexican resort to perform a task that neither he (or perhaps the writers) understand.  Jane Russell (who else ) is there for the sake of…

I could probably come up with a top 50 list of the 80s and 2000s without leaving much significant work off as I would from the Seventies ( of which any categorical analysis based analysis should begin around the mid Sixties with the honorary inclusion of PSYCHO) and the 90s.  (which should again probably begin in 1986…

I could probably come up with a top 50 list of the 80s and 2000s without leaving much significant work off as I would from the Seventies ( of which any categorical analysis based analysis should begin around the mid Sixties with the honorary inclusion of PSYCHO) and the 90s.  (which should again probably begin in 1986…

R&GAD actually was my favorite film of its year (at the time)—I think my ballot would change a bit today (based on my own changing tastes and criteria) but it's a solid and imaginative opening of the play—I wonder if anyone will try to adapt TRAVESTIES?

R&GAD actually was my favorite film of its year (at the time)—I think my ballot would change a bit today (based on my own changing tastes and criteria) but it's a solid and imaginative opening of the play—I wonder if anyone will try to adapt TRAVESTIES?

When I did this as an academic exercise with some friends about 11 years ago I ran into a similar issue.  Scorsese, Eastwood, Tarantino, and the Coens all had really good runs in the 90s, producing really important stuff that, quantitatively, defined the cinema of the decade.  It seemed that a top 10 list would be so…

When I did this as an academic exercise with some friends about 11 years ago I ran into a similar issue.  Scorsese, Eastwood, Tarantino, and the Coens all had really good runs in the 90s, producing really important stuff that, quantitatively, defined the cinema of the decade.  It seemed that a top 10 list would be so…