Guessing you didn't see the episode where he had a pornstar almost fellate a drunk 20 year old on camera.

Guessing you didn't see the episode where he had a pornstar almost fellate a drunk 20 year old on camera.

A lot more user friendly than Three Resurrected Drunkards.

A lot more user friendly than Three Resurrected Drunkards.

"but the only reason they keep putting it up there is out of some sense of obligation to the traditional (read: racist) Western genre because it was such a pillar of Old Hollywood"

"but the only reason they keep putting it up there is out of some sense of obligation to the traditional (read: racist) Western genre because it was such a pillar of Old Hollywood"

You really want to see Histoire(s) Du Cinema Chapter 4(a) on the list instead?

You really want to see Histoire(s) Du Cinema Chapter 4(a) on the list instead?

Not that Bicycle Thieves and Sans Soleil aren't great, but your definition of substance is terribly prosaic. Mirror literally feels like you're watching Tarkovsky's memories unfold onscreen. Not even Marker pulls that off.

Not that Bicycle Thieves and Sans Soleil aren't great, but your definition of substance is terribly prosaic. Mirror literally feels like you're watching Tarkovsky's memories unfold onscreen. Not even Marker pulls that off.

I had a mixed-positive reaction to it the first time. The first half was talky enough to seem like a chore to 17 year old me, but I liked the second half a lot. Then I screened it a couple months ago for the film club at my school and was bowled over. It might have the most purely enjoyable second half of any movie…

I had a mixed-positive reaction to it the first time. The first half was talky enough to seem like a chore to 17 year old me, but I liked the second half a lot. Then I screened it a couple months ago for the film club at my school and was bowled over. It might have the most purely enjoyable second half of any movie…

Godard has multiple movies in the top 50. Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot Le Fou, and Histoire(s) Du Cinema.

Godard has multiple movies in the top 50. Breathless, Contempt, Pierrot Le Fou, and Histoire(s) Du Cinema.

"Associated with a Left Bank Cinema movement that included more intellectual and experimental filmmakers like Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda—as opposed to the more narrative-obsessed Right Bank of François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and others"
 Godard is just as if not more intellectual and experimental and arguably…

"Associated with a Left Bank Cinema movement that included more intellectual and experimental filmmakers like Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda—as opposed to the more narrative-obsessed Right Bank of François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, and others"
 Godard is just as if not more intellectual and experimental and arguably…

Has anybody here making pronouncements about the Damon subplot watched the extended cut yet? The additional and extended scenes with him are good. The one in his apartment is now one of my favorite scenes in the movie. He emerges as a fully-realized character.

I've never been depressed by one of his movies. They sound really dour in synopsis but as they play out there's too much beauty and dry humor to go around. His bleak worldview doesn't come off simplistic or unduly depressing. He walks the tricky line of being profoundly pessimistic, but not cynical.

While The Man From London is a step-down from everything else I've seen by him, it's still damned impressive as a flexing of stylistic muscle, that opening shot especially.

You might want to see Werckmeister Harmonies first, which will give you a better idea what you're in for than Sant/Tarkovksy will. But yes, it's absolutely worth the sit. I don't see what's so beyond the pale about sitting through a 7 hour movie today when people will watch whole seasons of hourlong shows in one…