Fair enough, but there's a difference between an adolescent look at adolescence, and a mature (for lack of a better word) look at adolescence. A teenager's understanding of him/herself and his.her peers probably isn't going to be as sophisticated/accurate as an adult's understanding (born of experience, and seen in…

No, eh?
I understand why everyone is so impressed with "Enter the Void" as pure visual spectacle and/or an exhibition of technical mastery, but, really, what's the 'distinctive vision' here other than a vision of what can be done with the mechanisms of filmmaking? Not only is, as Tasha points out, the whole 'Book of…

Mediocre novels tend to work best as adaptations to other media, whereas good/excellent novels do not. This is probably why Hollywood turned to the pulp mystery/crime writers of the 30s and 40s for sources for adaptations, and not, say, the Bloomsbury group.

I can't quote it from memory (and I'm not going to be bothered trying to look it up), but Eugene Levy's attempt to engage the hotel clerk in 'polite conversation' by recounting some mundane/inane details about their trip, which of course would be of no possible interest to anyone, was hilariously true to life (or at…

How come so few people commenting here have seen "Wendy and Lucy" - was it really that limited in its release in the States? Have people forgotten DVDs exist with all this on-line streaming shit (often in both senses)? Isn't it the sort of film the typical commenter on here would eat up?

What's Mitch Pileggi or whatever his name is doing nowadays?

John would probably punch Nick if he were alive to see the kinds of films he was using the advantages/connections of his name to make.

Usher kicked in the face
In other positive music news…

That "not even the chair" line is pretty lame though…

Is the guy in the A's hat with the (presumably fake) beard and hair not actually Spike Lee?

Speaking of which, there's actually a book called "Nevermore" in which Poe and Davey Crockett team up to investigate a mystery that of course has elements of nearly every freakin' Poe story that a layperson might conceivably have heard of.

Is this related to the old Toronto Film School?
There used to be a place calling themselves the "Toronto Film School" that had advertising very similar to this, and which I think was part of a U.S. based umbrella organisation that ran money grab— I mean, career colleges with pretty shady reputations. Apparently they…

Cause it's a bunny day.

If that's the case, then isn't Leonard the ideal guy to write this Primer? Cause I hear he just makes it up as he goes along too.

Hey French speakers - why is 'jour du lapin' a good idea?

ZMF… no one's discerning taste, sound critical judgement or knowledge of film mechanics and aesthetics is a match for his blustery nonsense.

To be fair, what else would the art shake against? I mean, it's been clearly established as being on the walls.

The root of the problem is likely the fact that, like most "misfits", Burton really really wanted to fit in all along, and then the Hollywood studio system, probably the worst place to "fit in" in terms of values and perspective, allowed him the chance to do so.

Wow! Guy Ritchie-lite is pretty damn lite!

I wondered all the while through "Happy Go Lucky" is Mike Leigh was really presenting Poppy as having the right approach to life, or whether the film was basically holding her constant optimism and almost manic 'joie-de-vivre' up to scrutiny and questioning what was really behind it. Maybe it just looked more forced…