Comparatively few people were taught grammar in a formal setting, and English orthography was all over the place up to the 18th century.

No offense, but those are both totally wack folk etymologies, and even if you don't know the real origins of the words, they set off all kinds of alarms about the realities of usage and practice.

It is it good beyond the interesting angle? I've never been able to get into 18th c. English theater.

My bad; misread.

Millenium Mambo was shot on film.

Obligatory link to Bowie tearing up on a radio show after they play him a personal message from Scott Walker: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Just a self-deprecating jab because I was about to use "texture as an expressive value" in a conversation.

It's been a long time since I shot with one, but I remember it being dim and uncomfortable.

If you've got 47 minutes, here's a really good lecture on this exact subject by one of the Met's arms and armor curators, with plenty of slides and clips of people goofing around in both period and reproduction armor:

Check yr e-mail, Captain.

I'm removing the reference, because I think it's misleading. (NYT even reworded theirs.) I gather Mazzanti meant that her (uncharacteristic) reaction at Locarno was an indicator of her emotional state at the time.

The early features. I second Mike's recommendation of Careful. My first was his debut, Tales From The Gimli Hospital; his follow-up, Archangel, is my personal favorite.

Tiny, wiry pockmarked Frenchman who is arguably the greatest physical actor of his generation. I'd recommend checking out any of his work with Leos Carax, with Holy Motors being the biggest showcase, or catching up with Beau Travail, which is a masterpiece.

Also, I know certain AVCers will appreciate their long-running Simpsons bumper announcement gag. (BTW, the voice-over is done live.)

I am actually an embarrassingly heavy smoker.

Here, I gotta disagree. Contrary to what a lot of folks think, acting takes a lot of intelligence. But sometimes intelligent people become set in goofy worldviews.

Obligatory reminder than Marion Cotillard, a great actor, is also a 9/11 truther and moon landing conspiracy theorist. (I'm 100% convinced that the moon landing conversation in Interstellar was inspired by Nolan having worked with her on his two previous movies.)

This is an inventory, not a ranked list.

Manchevski was a big deal in the mid-to-late '90s. He was still in his 20s; his debut feature had won the Golden Lion at Venice and a whole bunch of other awards around the world, and gotten him nominated for an Oscar.

Actually Don Cossack (or the last name is), though my family tree's so packed with Russified Poles that it all evens out to "generic Russian." This is a problem at film festivals, esp. Cannes, because we all sort of look alike and get mistaken for each other.