Love is the thing that has licked 'em,
And it looks like Nathan's just another victim.

To me, Fry's opera sounds more like Carmen with the Spanish touches and whatnot.

My favourite Melville film (though I still haven't seen a couple) is Le Samourai if that helps.

Chinatown is my favourite movie. I don't know if it's "perfect" but I think it hits all the right notes for me. I think the way that the twist is handled is particularly smart, as it leads to the confrontation between Huston and Nicholson that is menacing while it lays out the ideas of the film and explains a piece of…

Tricky situation. Must be extremely difficult to figure out how to phrase things.

Repo! certainly does fairly well with the gore and the one rap song by the gravekeeper guy (can't remember his name). Other than that, I think it leans slightly too much on some of the rock-opera stuff to be really effective.

I agree that Doom is an awful film and Killer Joe quite a good one. I think it doesn't just rest on McConaughey's performance however. Without Juno Temple playing the creepy young girl so well, the stuff leading up to the KFC scene wouldn't have the same impact and the film wouldn't be as effective. Either way, the…

I thought I'd lead with the most interesting thing that happened to me this week. I actually received the audio tape from Stephen Sondheim that he said he'd send me. It was about 20 minutes long, and full of insightful answers to my questions in addition to elaborating on his point of view for writing songs for the…

Venture Bros. matures and starts creating more of its own mythology in subsequent seasons. At this point, it doesn't matter that most of the character started off as hilarious parodies of comic book characters and the show is much better for it.

I'm very jealous of that 35mm screening. That opening shot must have looked great.

I think Diane is a bit more aware of how she comes off than Britta. Plus she is a little bit smarter.

Because I have an upcoming film assignment, I had a great excuse to watch some movies over the weekend. I didn't end up much liking either The Postman Always Rings Twice or The Rules of the Game, but it was interesting nonetheless.

Or a ravine.

Great choice, and a musical which really fascinates me.

Good choice. I could definitely see it creating some good discussion.

Click may be awful, but for some reason it's one of the few movies that has made me cry while watching it. To be fair I was 12, and who has good taste at that age?

I started reading Life Itself after I heard about Ebert's death. I'd been putting it off for a while, and so far it's been a very good read. I feel like some parts of it could have been given a bit more context (mainly Chicago-based things), but it's still beautifully written and very engaging.

I continued to not watch as many movies as I would like while working on my own short film. I did see Police Story however. I didn't like it as much as Police Story 3: Supercop due to a lack of storytelling clarity, but it was still a very enjoyable ride. Not being familiar with most of Jackie Chan's…

As someone who has the philosophy that a Simpsons episode a day keeps the doctor away, I would definitely agree Scrubs isn't in that category of perpetual re-watching. Part of the problem is that, despite not appearing like it should, it really helps to watch Scrubs in order.

Were people laughing a lot at your screening? Because they definitely were when I saw it last year.