That mix worked for Pynchon.

QB1: Turn Off The Lights

Hoop Dreams is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I have been wanting to see this since I heard about it a few weeks back.  Thanks for letting me know I can catch it on PBS who, along with having with Downton Abbey, is pretty much unquestionably awesome.

Yeah with The Arist the tricky thing, and I think what divides alot of people, is the intent.  So much of the dialogue and plot developments are very broad and overblown; the defenders see it as charmingly self-conscious and knowing, while the detractors find it overly broad and offensive.  It's a fine line to toe. …

I get the innate reaction that a silent film is a curious nomination for screenplay, but it does have dialogue, the audience just doesn't hear it.  If you find it online or anywhere I'm sure it has the same (EXT. MOVIE THEATER (DAY)) that every other screenplay does.  Another recent screenplay nominee was Wall-E…

It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.

They gave 'Tree of Life' the Palme D'Or?

Inglourious Basterds did a pretty good job of combining WWII and cinephile sensibilities.  Not surprisingly it was Tarantino's most nominated movie since Pulp Fiction. 

How do you sweep "more than half a dozen" categories.  Sweep implies it won everything, not 7/12 or whatever.  That's like saying Shelbyville sweeps Springfield in football nearly half the time. 

Beat.

Same, it was one of those instances where once you saw it, it became glaringly obvious.  The voice, hair, attitude, it's all gloriously there. 

And 'Mean Girls' has Rachel McAdams as a high school student!

He pretty much is one in Marth Marcy May Marlene; absolute total creep in that.

If I remember from the documentary, the technique is called hydraulic fracturing, so i'm guessing then it's just a nickname for that. 

Downtown!

I think Moneyball is legitimately great, although I'm a baseball fan, which may color it a bit.  I find every scene in that fascinating if only because it's a look at some bit of baseball that's rarely given screen time in movies, so I was hooked.

@sigaba:disqus Goodness, is my face red!

This has nothing on the Matthew Broderick vehicle "Out On a Limb". 

"Unlike Al Pacino in Dog Day, Worthington isn’t an amateur."

I don't like giving speeches and then having the manner in which I prepare my speeches questioned!