I liked 9 Songs. Yes, it goes against the idea of that Ricky Roma speech in Glengarry Glen Ross - what you remember about sex isn't the sex, but what happens afterwards - but I think it does show how a love affair can begin and end without any melodrama about it, plus I liked the music.

It's not a bad movie, but it feels like Winterbottom was so afraid of screwing up the adaptation that he didn't turn it into his own movie. Plus, I'm starting to find Casey Affleck more mannered than convincing.

Hopefully, unlike Standing in the Shadows of Motown, it doesn't have modern artists covering the classics.

Me too. As well as the alternate universe where Carla Gugino is a big star.

Sorry, but I *hated* the movie. Everything that locals criticized the book for (if you haven't read it, it's one of the great non-fiction books of the last 25 years or so) is true of the movie. Instead of exploring the reasons why the town of Odessa cling so desperately to football, the movie just paints everybody as…

The problem with the movie, though I like it, is while it has some great storylines - including the Mary Steenburgen and Dianne Wiest parts you mentioned - is it ultimately reduces all of those storylines to sitcom endings, particularly the Rick Moranis character. It's too bad, because it wastes all of that potential.

As much as the humor and the emotion, what distinguishes the TV show (at its best) from the movie is just how much better it looks. The fight scenes in the movie are pretty amateurish (although, to be fair, Kristy Swanson does fight convincingly), while the ones on the show aren't. Yes, in the first season, you have…

Jack Black singing "Let's Get it On" at the end of "High Fidelity".

No mention of THE LOVELESS? Her first film (well, she co-directed it, but still), a great early Willem Dafoe performance, and is an interesting mood piece.

Plus, John Huston as Noah Cross. The best portrait of utter depravity I've ever seen.

I prefer the remake (in spite of the rear-screen projection) because it has one of the best cinematic portraits of marriage, because it's the only thing I can stand Doris Day in, and because only Hitchcock could get away with what he does in the first five minutes - mainly, if the bus doesn't swerve, and Day and Jimmy…

I disagree, and I say that as someone who loathes Heston as an actor (except for Touch of Evil and Major Dundee). This and Spartacus are the only sword-and-sandal movies of that era that hold up at all because they both avoid the "let's-luxuriate-in-all-this-decadence-oops-we-forgot-it's-bad-for-you" approach other…

The book "Inside Oscar" quote a couple of actors - Aldo Ray was one of them, if I recall correctly - who, after Heston won, said something to the effect of, "Hollywood; that's where they give Charlton Heston awards for acting."

Speaking of The Wire, I can't believe no one has mentioned how the actor who played Col. Taylor on A Different World was Clarence Royce. When I first started watching the Wire, I'd see Royce and wonder where I had seen him before. It wasn't until a few episodes in that I realized, "Oh yeah, it's Col. Taylor!"

I think so Brain, but I can't memorize an entire opera in Yiddish.

I think so Brain, but I can't memorize an entire opera in Yiddish.

One of the things that struck me the second or third time I watched this was Godard's choice of making this, in essence a road movie. Not just as a basic narrative line he could hang all of his filmmaking and political concerns are, but also because he's using the car, which was - even more than now - a status symbol…

One of the things that struck me the second or third time I watched this was Godard's choice of making this, in essence a road movie. Not just as a basic narrative line he could hang all of his filmmaking and political concerns are, but also because he's using the car, which was - even more than now - a status symbol…

Lorber films released a DVD of La Chinoise a couple of years ago, though it's going out of print soon. I don't remember the extras on it (if there were any), but it's a good print. Haven't heard anything about Criterion getting the rights to it.

Lorber films released a DVD of La Chinoise a couple of years ago, though it's going out of print soon. I don't remember the extras on it (if there were any), but it's a good print. Haven't heard anything about Criterion getting the rights to it.