Also, Return of the Secaucus Seven, Limbo, and if you can find it, City of Hope (it used to be available on You Tube). I also like Passion Fish, Secret of Roan Inish, and Casa de los Babys, but those aren't for everyone. Silver City I have to admit I found disappointing when I first saw it, but it does improve upon a…

Maybe I should give this another try, then. I'm a huge fan of Sayles, and am fascinated by baseball history, but I found this strangely muted. Except for Buck Weaver (and to a lesser extent Shoeless Joe Jackson), the players all come off as fairly two-dimensional, and so does Comiskey, so the story almost seems as…

Should we join a club and beat him over the head with it?

I liked Paul Douglas here too as the detective working with Widmark.

It's the only one of his films I've seen, but if he had directed nothing else, Blank's place in film history would be assured because of that.

You have GOT to be kidding me. I love this movie, and I despise Webber. There's no way this can end well.

I can't really argue with that, I agree with others who say this may be the price of a 13-episode season, and along with the marriage, I'd also like to see more of the kids (or specifically, more of the contrast of how Philip and Elizabeth raise their children in this environment when they have to act like Americans…

I've never liked The Natural (if it gets covered this week I'll explain in more detail; suffice it to say I'm one of those who thought the film completely missed the point of Malamud's novel), but I agree about Bull Durham. What makes it such a great movie is how Shelton nails those small details about minor league…

Andre Gregory was an occasional customer at the video store I used to work at (before it closed down). We didn't talk much, but he was always very sharp and intelligent, and a nice guy to boot.

We call it riding the gravy train.

Way back in the late 80's, in college I took a "Literature and Film" class, and we were assigned to write a scene as it would appear in a shooting script (meaning everything that was on screen had to be described in the script). We could write an original piece, or we could adapt something, as long as it hadn't been…

As your attorney I advise you to drink more beer.

In general, though, Hollywood (except for Warner Brothers) was afraid until America entered WWII to make anything too anti-Nazi because they didn't want to offend German sensibilities and therefore lose the German market. Also, Chaplin's film *was* the first to try and make the Nazis look ridiculous.

And although it's easy to overlook Esposito in that movie because of everyone else, he makes the most of the role. It's sort of a bland role in that his sole function is to push ahead the story (the fact he's the first one in the movie to react to the name "Keyser Soze" is the movie's signal to us), but he's still…

It's too bad, because Esposito and Yaphet Kotto are both great actors, but they just never had the material to work with so they could click together. Just one more example of how far the show had fallen in the last season.

It'll be One Wonderful Sunday, I guess.

Another voice in praise of this movie. Malkovich really captures the sense of dread of living in a place where you never know when terror is going to strike, and he does it in a way that isn't showy at all.

I haven't read that one, but I've read "Little America", which is also very good.

Michael Caine apparently wanted to play the Jackal, but Zinnemann felt they needed an unknown, and I'm glad they went that way. If Caine had played the part, you would have thought, "Well, of course he's badass - he's Michael Caine!" Casting an unknown focuses you on how an ordinary, professional soldier could in fact…

Nit-pick alert; THE CLOCK is Vincente Minnelli, not Zinnemann.