Apparently, Nichols St. John (Abel Ferrara's closest collaborator) didn't want to get involved in this film because he found the subject matter distateful. Which is funny for a guy who wrote Ms. 45 — the lead from that film actually wrote Bad Lieutenant —, King of New York, and then The Funeral.

The Artisan release of Bad Lieutenant prior to this one is pristine and anamorphic, but then again Ferrara's commentaries are pretty entertaining.

The Forgotten War.

Blood, "Wistfulness", Incest, Orphans.
In a bid for maturity, Korean directors merely contort an everpresent sentimentality and facile symbolism by the use of (South Korean) music video aesthetics and ultra-violence. Instead of moving beyond simple-minded dramatic mainstays, they merely confuse them—as if it were the…

Who is Cronenberg to think that he could best what George Lucas had already done to perfection? Star Wars is Burroughs par excellence, minus all the lame shit. He was smart to keep the gay stuff, though.

I think it is more effective when a beautiful woman, who may or may not be fickle, 'fried', whatever, is still depicted as being as complex as — that is to say, as whole as — any other individual. I don't mean the…

None of his other films have any wit? Well, it may not quite be witty, but Un Flic is undeniably laughable. Watch it and have a gay old time!!

Provocative.

I don't see what I did there.

Um, just pop in your digibeta copy of Allemagne 90 Neuf Zero like the rest of us. Duh.

See them before you graduate.

National Past Time
Nothing quite captures the essence of baseball like hitting flaming homers into the jumbotron in Times Square. For me, anyway.

Even Worse
I heard that Sofia Coppola is remaking Straub-Huillet's The Chronicale of Anna Magdalena Bach with Scarlett Johansson—and with Peter Riegert as J.S.

No, Sandler is going to play Fredro Starr's role. The ghost of David Niven is going to be playing Walken's part. (Yeah, Niven's soul is still acting. I guess someone forgot to shoot him again.)

I'm holding off on Vampire flicks
I'm just waiting for the "hot-on-the-heels-of-Bad-Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans-and-Let the Right One In-remakes" remake of The Addiction, starring Hayden Panetierre, Juliette Binoche, Adam Sandler and T.I., to be directed by Michael Haneke from script written by Diablo Cody.…