@avclub-222afbe0d68c61de60374b96f1d86715:disqus Cooper's fiction isn't really my thing, but he's a very smart guy and I really enjoyed his book of essays, Smothered in Hugs. I will check out The Seventh Continent, at least.

Oops. I rescind my candidacy.

I haven't watched any Bresson films, but I have this weird expectation set up, after I read a Dennis Cooper essay where he claimed that all his books were a pale imitation of trying to recreate some of the spiritual aura of Bresson.

Isn't the new P.T. Anderson movie coming out this year?

I've got a bookmark around pg. 350. I'm starting up again, though, over the holidays. One of these years, Dave, one of these years….

Well, you can, and I did. S4, S5, S1, S3, S2. This is what happens when you're renting in a mid-sized American town.

Well, we probably have subjectively different experiences of Scorcese's films, as well as perhaps of life. I don't see his films as emotionally chilly at all, but maybe that's because I identify very strongly with the "existentialist hero" trope—I, too, am God's lonely man. I'm not religious, but I have a religious…

It's not just because it's different. The insult of the film—the thing that should tip us off that it's a kid's movie and not something that adults need to take seriously—is that it's about 180-degrees flipped from what makes a lot of Scorcese's films great.

So far. I saw a preview of the Titanic-3D redo, and it looked pretty great. Great post-conversion, that is; somehow, I've never seen the movie.

I should read this. Stross's blog (http://www.antipope.org/cha… is pretty great, but I haven't read enough of his fiction.

This comment is so much more disturbing, knowing that Yee Yee's a fellow teacher.

Pulphead is good if you like music/culture essays, and Thinking, Fast and Slow is pretty nice pop-sci.

@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus Casino's the lustier Goodfellas remake, IMO.

The best Scorcese: Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, Casino.

No, no! She's a plucky heroine, so sez the trailer.

When a Roman Catholic makes a children's movie, well…

The thing that no one seems to mention about Hugo, also: it's glacially slow-paced. This is not a charge that could typically be placed on his other works, although if you were mean-spirited you could probably say it of Mean Streets. But this is a film that's content to gear itself toward idiots who would rather leave…

Awwww. But somehow when I told my wife last night that she's obviously a Lucy, she didn't take it as a compliment. (Though, now that I recall that I put myself as Linus, the whole romantic entanglement deal starts to all sound a bit icky….)

I watched this for the first time last night, after being a longtime Peanuts fan. (I grew up w/o TV; not my fault.) This triggered some revelations that were unrelated to the special, which I'll list even though they're slightly off-topic.

Did it? It asserts, but I'm confused on this one, too.