Brian Cox was cast in Rushmore based on his performance in Manhunter, and Anderson's first movie had James Caan. There's a Last Of The Mohicans reference in Fantastic Mr. Fox. Wes Anderson loves Michael Mann movies.

They need an extra man for the armored truck job. Waingro has never met the crew before then, and it's supposed to be one-time thing. Presumably, he was recommended by someone else.

And, ahem, it was the AVC's 34th best film of the decade so far.

But he has Greenwood's voice.

Well, somebody made an entire movie about that.

Actually, she died of cancer a couple of years ago, but worked pretty steadily up until then. She was a TV and stage director; only directed four proper features, Ravenous being the last.

She plays an 18-or-so-year-old. Not convincingly.

This comes down to differing cultural definitions of public space. Sure, you can't smoke in enclosed spaces, but the open-air public area where you can smoke seems much larger to, say, big-city Americans, who are used to not being able to smoke anywhere.

Statistically true. I think the American misconception about French smoking comes from the fact that there are a lot more places where you can smoke in France (restaurant patios, train platforms, etc.) than in the urbanized parts of the the US.

Hungarians aren't Slavs. Generally speaking.

Your username synergy game is strong.

A little baffling. I can tell you that it was not considered a contender, though some thought Jesuthasan Antonythasan, who is quite good, might beat out Vincent Lindon for Actor.

It's hardcore, and in the next dispatch.

Not with that jury. The only sure bets as far as prizes go are Son Of Saul and (maybe) Carol. Sicario also has good odds for something.

Should've clarified that it's only that last section — which is the shortest — is in English.

He's very good this, effectively channeling Mathieu Amalric, but he's not the main focus.

Graeme Revell's score for the Eaters Of The Dead version is pretty cool in its own way.

Not true. Last Action Hero was followed by the hugely successful Die Hard With A Vengeance, and this movie opened just a couple of weeks after the pretty well-received The Thomas Crown Affair, which he'd made in the time it took Crichton and the studio to retool this project. It was Rollerball and Basic flopping that…

There is a wrong way to watch something, and it's called a secure digital stream.

A couple of things:
1. Nolan is red-green colorblind, which is why, whenever possible, the important stuff in his films tends to fall into shades of blue or brown. Easier to manage colors you can be sure of. See, for instance, Leonard's suit in Memento. Also the reason why Following, the only feature Nolan lit himself,…