You're right. This is not, in fact, an incomplete list of major writers whose work is dominated by spiritual, moral, and existential themes and imagery directly related to their Catholic beliefs.

Ah, yes, fuck Dante, Chaucer, Cervantes, Descartes, Pascal, Balzac, Chesterton, Bernanos, More, Waugh, Corneille, Percy, Tolkein, Greene, O'Connor, Unamuno, Böll, Remarque, etc., etc., etc.

The Shack was under embargo until sometime this afternoon and the review was published AM by mistake. It'll be be back later today.

It's a "classic AVC" feature that we decided to resurrect this year, so expect one or more a month, with me and Alex McLevy alternating.

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And scored by (drumroll, please) a Russian!

I think The Life Pursuit is a great record, but consider the two phases of the line-up (i.e. before and after Isobel Campbell and Stuart David's departure) as distinct projects with different directions. Similarly, I draw a line between God Help The Girl and B&S.

Bro, I've never been to Georgia. Also, Vishnevetsky literally means "from Vyshnevets."

There are grumblings right now that a copy may have been found in Spain. We're waiting for confirmation before we write about it.

Yes, but did Chico have to learn to act like a grown-up? Did Groucho overcome an embarrassing incident from his teens in every film? Were there marriage counseling subplots?

I didn't want to get bogged down in specifics, but…

Fortunately, this film helpfully recaps the original's one sentence worth of plot.

I defer to our colleague Nick Pinkerton.

Well, that drummer def doesn't sleep if that's what you mean.

It's pretty awesome stuff. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

You bet your ass he was. It's off Soulin'.

Obviously, you've yet to see The Beautiful Days Of Aranjuez.

Berto was the greatest improviser of that generation of French actors. Sadly, died young — breast cancer at 42. Out of great Godards, she's also in Weekend and Two Or Three Things I Know About Her (one of my personal favs), and is also in Le Gai Savoir and Vladimir Et Rosa.

I'll bite: I fuckin' love the title cards. They take you in and out of the ending, creating these artificial narrative pauses that allow Jackson and Willis' last moments on screen to play out individually. (Seriously, watch the scene, and imagine its dramatic rhythm without the freeze frame and text on Willis.) They…

I don't think Casey is most graceful example, but most of Shyamalan's films (even After Earth, now I think about it) hinge on the idea that we're all shaped by traumas and that we define ourselves by how we do or don't find meaning in them. He mixes supernatural traumas (say, being able to see ghosts or miraculously…