Fixed! My mistake.

Eyeballing, I think it might actually be a custom stencil. But that film has lots of great use of wallpaper: I recall a bamboo pattern as well.

Actually, we've been doing Film Club as a Facebook Live thing. (We answer questions and stuff.) There isn't one this week, but we discussed Doctor Strange early.

Production designer Dennis Grassner, who also gave us some excellent distressed walls in Road To Perdition, a movie where everything seems to be water- or fire-damaged. (Grassner is kind of a specialist in the 1930s-1940s; also did Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't…

Years and years ago, before I wrote full-time, I had to deliver some prints to a private press screening in his Dark Knight production office, which hadn't yet been fully dismantled. Only time I've seen an actual horizontal-feed VistaVision projector (for the dailies). Also it had the thickest door, like an…

It's actually a thing everywhere except Germany and Austria.

Let's agree to disagree.

I wanted to work in a shout out to all of the Connery collabs (except Family Business), but couldn't find the right spot without creating an overlong parenthetical.

Deception Point also gifted the world "Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes."

Here is the first paragraph of The Da Vinci Code [sic]:

Tell. Us. More.

Chick's mini-comics have been likened to Tijuana bibles since they first came to wider attention, and the comparison has quite a bit of research devoted to it. The consensus is that Chick intentionally mimicked the format of Tijuana bibles.

But it doesn't negate the narrative at all, unless you're in a dispensationalist belief system.

True, but there we're talking about religious conflicts from an era when religious and political authority went hand in hand. If you read through the proceedings of the Old Bailey (https://www.oldbaileyonline…, which are morbidly fascinating, Catholicism is tried as a "royal offense" (or "offence"), in the same…

Eh, once you get to the dispensationalists, there's not that much in common with older branches of Christianity; the whole belief system has a different foundation.

There have been many new Walser translations in recent years (Searls did one of them, actually), and though not a "name," he's always had notable English-language champions — Susan Sontag, for instance.

"Because of her excessive curiosity, an old lady fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Another old lady looked out of the window, staring down at the one who was smashed, but out of her excessive curiosity she also fell out of the window and smashed into the ground. Then the third old lady fell out of…

$96 million does not include marketing.

I wouldn't recommend it. I saw it one of those legendary one-off screenings (16mm prints, subtitles projected separately by someone who was literally running the set-up by ear), split over the two days of a weekend with intermission breaks, and it still put me in a state where I had trouble accepting anything as…

New Yorker Films still owns the rights. There was work on a home video release that fell through a few years ago.