Edgewise, you're right about Spacey's character. Despite loving this movie, it always rang so untrue for me at the end when he's asked by Mena Suvari's character 'how are you?' and he responds, in what is meant to be some sort of little epiphany, 'I'm great'. Because he clearly isn't doing so good. If he'd owned up to…

Edgewise, you're right about Spacey's character. Despite loving this movie, it always rang so untrue for me at the end when he's asked by Mena Suvari's character 'how are you?' and he responds, in what is meant to be some sort of little epiphany, 'I'm great'. Because he clearly isn't doing so good. If he'd owned up to…

Sacrilicious, I think you're a little off in your ideas about Tolkien. I'd go back and read his introduction to the 'Lord of the Rings', particularly his own comments on allegory, and his motives behind writing the book.

I can't speak highly enough of 'Damaged' - that was my starting point.

I'll offer a +1 for 'Tomorrow Is a Long Time'.

As far as I can see in this thread so far, no one is going anywhere near Bob's more overtly christian albums, which is why my vote for a great underrated song goes to 'When He Returns' off of Slow Train Coming.

I am an F! B! I! Agent!

His drumming was one of my least favourite parts of their recent live shows. That, and the palpable on-stage tension. Pity, they used to be so fun live.

Check out 'White Bicycles' by Joe Boyd, if you haven't already.

This has just happened to me too, on a friend's facebook page. It felt like two isolated dimensions had suddenly overlapped and merged, or like encountering a fictional character walking down the street.

….Macbeth!

Blame Chris Columbus. Always. For everything.

This is a major, major shame… I really love that first album, and it sounds like they've set about stripping out everything that was good about it.

13. This aint Jim Beam.

I shall return… interfrastically.

Interesting - I can't say that occurred to me when I was watching it the first time, and I'm not sure it can be said to share the same steady-accumulation-of-images structure. I'll give it another spin with that in mind, though.

You gots ta be kidding me. Has Buschemi stepped up his game in the second season? Because in the first, he was the hollow core of a pretty damn empty show.

Talking about 'real' in relation to a nature documentary is a sticky point, as there certainly is an amount of staging that goes on too… what's happening just outside the frame? Is that audio you're hearing what was recorded at that very moment, at that very place? The Planet Earth films had their point to make too,…

They might actually be worthy of that MOMA show. The important point for a photographer, always, is a kind of visual literacy - a fundamental understanding of how images work - and that does not always go hand in hand with technical aptitude. The process is always just the process, however complicated or not it may be.

I love Terrance Malick, but maybe he doesn't make it on the 'influential' point… The narrative (or non-narritive) style he's been developing over those four decades is hardly a ball that many other major directors have picked up and run with.