And here's the same scene from Andrei Tarkovsky's production:

I'm well aware that Lee Byung-hun is Korean. But Hollywood movies are never that specific with casting. (Lee's biggest Hollywood role before that was playing a Japanese-American character.)

As everybody knows, the real solution for a gritty Magnificent Seven remake is to keep the original's Mexican town and American leads and set it in the present day. Make the bandits a cartel and make the seven private security contractors, thereby preserving the original's "mercenaries stay to defend the town out of…

Janus toured a restoration, so it's widely assumed Criterion will release the director's cut sometime in the near future.

I admit that I have a thing for that "cultural moment" myself. (I've written about it for AVC before, in The Overlook piece on Away With Words: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

I cut a mention of it in between drafts, but it's one of a few songs on the film soundtrack that isn't on the CD.

You are all wrong wrong wrong.

Jaguar. Luxury brand shorts films are a whole category.

He totally effs with it, and in the best, most Bonello-esque way: By starting it over and over for 5+ minutes of the movie.

It is actually titled after the album. And for @neuroticmoose:disqus, we actually have more Nick Cave-related content coming, so it sort of is Nick Cave Week.

It's cool. He once called me a Polack.

I don't think FF was made with the main intention of it making a large amount of money.

I was introduced to A Thief In The Night by a friend who specialized in '70s hardcore porn. He actually ended up renting and screening all four films on 16mm, and was told that it was first time that any of those prints had been in an actual movie theater, having only been rented to churches.

Are you a trailer collector? A 35mm print trailer can probably be found.

Dear God.

When in the comments of a video, it's generally a good idea to watch said video.

Academy ratio is what movies were shot in before widescreen. 'scope (short for Cinemascope) is the wider of the two widescreen aspect ratios.

At no point in its history has this publication ever done anything that could be construed as journalism.

They should be working now.

Actually gotta defend Harley Quinn's silly outfit here. Everyone else is dressed up to fight, but she's dressed up to see the Joker, as she knows from the get-go that he's coming to break her out. (He, in turn, changes into a tux somewhere between taking the micro-bomb implant guy hostage and getting into Midway City.)