And you are quite opinionated for a guy who isn't signed in, thinks Sitney is a "hero" and follows John Zorn's "experimental journeys" into his various Japanese porn or Montreux klezmer jams. And for someone who gets riled over an offhand quip

Sitney on it
It is porbably best that, for the intention of this article, Noel left off mentioning the foremost expert on "A-G" cinema, to use that friendly bowdlerization.

I'm sure Eric Roberts was thinking: "oh, that is so nice of him… to shit on all the work I've done for the last 20 years." Ah, the taste of Mickey's compliments.

No, his point was really that there are 'sorrowful human consequences' to the events we callous folk exploit for entertainment purposes

*envisions an old granny looking wistfully up at the tenament she has to move out of; sheds single tear for theoretical granny*

Or, you could always put it back-to-back with "Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire", which may be even more forgotten.

Or, "Who won the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance?"
"…uhhh…"
"No, really, I need to know. I got sent back here, like, a day before the results."

I think Sam is just a boy scout because that is how he is. But I also think that, for all the grief we give cops, they are much more professional now than then. Gene's drinking in his office, or on a crime scene, is entirely overlooked, for one thing. Everyone is shocked that Sam speaks Spanish, etc. It is more…

Mother Theresa has been called self-serving for: providing palliative care instead of treatment; having a good relationship with Duvalier in Haiti because it was lucrative; accepting money and then not returning money from Charles Keating (the Bernie Madoff of his day); maintaining a large bank account, only a small…

Your "knowing Tarkovsky" doesn't make your use of inapproriate terminology correct; it's not an excuse that will always puts you one up on anybody else. Quite frankly, I find Tarkovsky a bit pretentious. I agree with Otar Iosseliani when he said about Tarkovsky that, "It is somewhat ill-bred to be always emphasising…

In case you didn't know, words like "understudy" and "lackey" aren't words one uses to express an opinion of a loose theoretical interconnection between people or their work. Rather, they express a type of direct, personal and hierarchical relationship between individuals—a type of relationship that doesn't exist in…

In what possible way could Bunuel be considered an understudy or lackey of Tarkovsky? It really is the other way around. Tarkovsky always mentions certain scenes of Bunuel's films (often ones made before Tarkovsky made films) that had an impact on him. On the other hand, I've never read of Bunuel mentioning let alone…

No, they aren't region 1. But, nonetheless, you can use your computer to play Region whatever DVDs if you don't presently have a region free DVD player — which you might, if you can find a hack online for your current player.

It may be true that Journal… raises those questions about the character's nature, but that is an aspect of characterization, not narrative. The difference I was pointing up is that between a film with a primary story compared to others which are loosely connected or unconnnected episodes. Let me put it his way, his…

I hope it isn't too "blasphemous" to say that about Bunuel, because I'd take it further: all of those Benny Hill- esque, sketch films of Bunuel pale in comparison to his more traditionally narrative films. Journal d'une Femme de Chambre, Belle de Jour, Nazarin, and Viridiana are far superior to any of his "zanily…

All of those films and many more films from Bunuel's Mexican period are available already in good quality, often inexpensive editions. Amazon.fr is the best place to look for them. I've many of them and can confirm that they have English subtitles. (They call Wuthering Heights Les Hauts de Hurlevent.)

That is because you, like me, are missing Mr. Harvey's signature "flattop" hairdo.

I think the last three shows are a lot better than the first… three? But, it is hard to overcome a dire first impression.

I think these are some of the most reflective "pensees" ever assembled on the AV Club on the topic of rape.

I think these are some of the most reflective "pensees" ever assembled on the AV Club on the topic of rape.