Yeah, and the final scene of the Seventh Continent, when you know exactly where the ending is going, but you feel helplessly compelled to watch it, and even though you know where it's going it's so brilliantly staged that it manages to upend your expectations.

@DapperDamp:disqus and, as Glenn Kenny very articulately pointed out, "the art excuse" is bullshit propagated by anti-art ideologues and philistines.

@DapperDamp:disqus and, as Glenn Kenny very articulately pointed out, "the art excuse" is bullshit propagated by anti-art ideologues and philistines.

When he made the implicit claim that Bigelow was the American Leni Riefenstahl it confirmed my suspicion that he was utterly full of shit and has no business talking about art. Ever.

When he made the implicit claim that Bigelow was the American Leni Riefenstahl it confirmed my suspicion that he was utterly full of shit and has no business talking about art. Ever.

Not surprising that a user named "InfiniteRadness" would say something like this.

Not surprising that a user named "InfiniteRadness" would say something like this.

Yeah, this sounds rough, even for Haneke. still, I'll probably see it and almost certainly love it.

Yeah, this sounds rough, even for Haneke. still, I'll probably see it and almost certainly love it.

Yeah, I get the feeling that making a lot of money through shitty comedies somehow lead Schneider to believe that it must mean HE'S the great one, and not the production machine of Happy Madison and the lowest-common-denominator audiences that (used to) consistently throw money at whatever garbage Happy Madison sent…

Yeah, I get the feeling that making a lot of money through shitty comedies somehow lead Schneider to believe that it must mean HE'S the great one, and not the production machine of Happy Madison and the lowest-common-denominator audiences that (used to) consistently throw money at whatever garbage Happy Madison sent…

In theory, you'd be right, but most artists aren't responding to cheap, baseless invective. They're whining about articulate, well thought out criticisms. A lot of artists, especially Hollywood actors, don't exactly have a great critical vocabulary when it comes to the medium in which they work, so they don't…

In theory, you'd be right, but most artists aren't responding to cheap, baseless invective. They're whining about articulate, well thought out criticisms. A lot of artists, especially Hollywood actors, don't exactly have a great critical vocabulary when it comes to the medium in which they work, so they don't…

Is it just me, or does the background of the kitchen in that painful dinner scene look rear projected? Even if it doesn't, the lighting there is a goddamn eyesore.

Is it just me, or does the background of the kitchen in that painful dinner scene look rear projected? Even if it doesn't, the lighting there is a goddamn eyesore.

Every pop star today is doing that "lack of genre" picking thing. All of their albums are giant genre hodge podges with no coherent sound.

Every pop star today is doing that "lack of genre" picking thing. All of their albums are giant genre hodge podges with no coherent sound.

You make it seem like he's the only person in the world who watches a very popular television show and enjoys very popular records and films.

You make it seem like he's the only person in the world who watches a very popular television show and enjoys very popular records and films.

Kitty Pryde is weird. But kinda cool? But weird.