Yeah, Fahrenheit winning over Shrek 2 is a blemish.

He also deserves recognition for being PM from 69-76.

In the fifties, it was really Venice which was the biggest festival, right? If you compare the films in competition, Venice is where the auteurs are. Fellini, Antonioni, Hitchcock, another Mizoguchi. And of course, the film that is the true arthouse classic from 55, and the winner of the Gold Lion, Dreyers 'Ordet'.…

Well… Gus van Sant is hardly the worst Hollywood-director, and Elephant isn't his worst film, but I don't think he is Palme-worthy. And his 'death'-trilogy is so indebted to Bela Tarr, who has never won any of the big prizes. Also, Dogville or Uzak should have won that year.

"Marker’s original title translated to “The essence of the air is red,” which bears more than a passing resemblance to what Assayas has called his picture"
Assayas called his pitcure Aprés Mai, which translates as After May. Hardly close to the Marker-title. Resembles the titles of earlier Assayas-films such as Late…

Homer misquoting Coleridge in this episode is one of the weirdest things ever. He knows Rime of the Ancient Mariner, just not exactly right.

How come no one has mentioned Gordard yet? The 'Ligne de Chance' from Pierrot le Fou, and the bar dance from Bande a Part. I'm pretty sure about half of what has been mentioned here can trace it's lineage directly back to those two…

Valkyrie. I hate Tom Cruise and I hate films that heroizes people who shouldn't be heroized, like nazis. But it was fairly mediocre, which was far better than I expected. Plus, that mediocrity actually made it palatable. Tom Cruise is in his least charismatic mode, and the film-making is so dull and milquetoast, it…

Valkyrie. I hate Tom Cruise and I hate films that heroizes people who shouldn't be heroized, like nazis. But it was fairly mediocre, which was far better than I expected. Plus, that mediocrity actually made it palatable. Tom Cruise is in his least charismatic mode, and the film-making is so dull and milquetoast, it…

First of all, NBC coverage seems to exemplify everything that is wrong about America. America has the resources and the know-how to be pretty much best at everything, but then it will be co-opted and dumbed down to make the most money… It sounds really sad that the coverage is so useless, there should be experts…

First of all, NBC coverage seems to exemplify everything that is wrong about America. America has the resources and the know-how to be pretty much best at everything, but then it will be co-opted and dumbed down to make the most money… It sounds really sad that the coverage is so useless, there should be experts…

I just saw this last week, and I sincerely loved it. I didn't get all of the plot and the dialogue, but I got what I took to be a quite important point: The characters are all emotionally scarred and walled up (and in some cases very, very annoying), yet confronted with the miraculous they begin to open up and be nice…

When they were going to show Dynasty on Danish television, they renamed it Dollars, probably in the hope that people would confuse it with Dallas. It was tremendously dumb, as the Danish word for Dynasty is Dynasti… Anyways, when I saw your comment i cracked up, but then I remembered 'oh, right, Leone…'

I agree. Not enough Oboe.

Jane Levy likes Oboe-players! That used to be me! There is hope!

As a Dane and a history-geek, I loved all the stuff from the model-UN. The Kruschev-shoe-banging, admonishing famously neutral Switzerland to 'nut up'. And of course, Finland is pretty much an arctic country… And I wonder if Leslie Knopes outfit was modeled after something new Danish prime-minister Helle…

I liked that the title is Sentimental Education. Flauberts novel is also about a young man trying to bettering his life, and failing all the way because he takes the easy choices everywhere. It's a rubbish novel (I'm totally with Carmela on the topic of the litterary quaities of Flaubert), but they used it well.

I really think the title is quite clever. It's a reference to the opening of Anna Karenina, which goes something along the lines of: 'All happy families are alike, but no two unhappy families are the same' (something like that, I've only got the Danish version at hand). Yet the book they reference in the episode is…