wallflower and the Lady Wallflower hit the Criterion sale at Barnes and Noble (cross-posted at thedissolve.com)

Dunno, I got used to it pretty quickly.  It's a "mouseover this and watch things happen"-type site.

There is only one Hannibal Lecter, and that is Cox.

One of my favorite details:  at the end in the score, Terence Blanchard quotes a great, unknown 20th century masterpiece, Allan Pettersson's 6th symphony. (I wrote about it somewhere in massive Community board.)  I'm almost sure it was deliberate, and so incredibly moving in any case.

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Whose face are you shoving that fact in?

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No argument there.  Lee has made some bad films but I've never known him to make a boring one.

Lee always had a weakness for drawn-out endings, but more than in any other of his films, this one needed that.  It's like neither Lee or Monty can let go of this world.

It's not that surprising, though; Lee is like Michael Haneke or Oliver Stone in that he's a great filmmaker but not a great thinker.  Do the Right Thing was fantastic, but a lot of his more passionate projects can be just plain dumb.  Give him a solid story, though, like this or Inside Man or Clockers and he brings…

This was one of the great sucker-punch films (Lee's Clockers was another); going in, I had no idea how much emotional impact it would have.  Barry Pepper's monologue overlooking Ground Zero had me in tears, not so much from the words as the commitment of the actors and the staging.

It's a good effort, but overdone.  This isn't a song where you think, "huh, it needs more drama."

No hustle either, Skip.

I stayed for Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Tried out an Emma Blonde Ale (California Pizza Kitchen was trying to get rid of it) and it was surprisingly good, very smooth, little hints of pear.  A rare moment when I liked a blonde.

"Deep Space Homer."

Uri Caine's 2-CD set of The Goldberg Variations, 2 1/2 hours of great, diverse music.
Miles Davis, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions.  Awww, yeah.

I'd be happy for you to review my Sopranos comments, especially here: http://www.avclub.com/artic… and in the opening thread here: http://www.avclub.com/artic… and tell me what I missed, especially if I got something wrong when I wrote "The Sopranos has The Shield beat in terms of 'subtle interaction'; like you said,…

(hits refresh)  Not yet.

OK, that was pretty cool.