This is a pretty solid assessment, although I'd probably add a third group: contemporaries of the characters who want to pretend that they're not like the characters.

You realize you're Brian WIlliams' daughter too?

Helps when you're part of that generation, instead of complaining about lawns, et al.

Remove the talk-box and wiring and he's only 3/8ths of a stuffed animal.

I just borrow Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly.

I just borrow Lara Lee Candie-Fitzwilly.

Did they manufacture figures of Schultz?  And if so, is he included in the the proclamation?

The lyricism in his delivery through the thick accent is what always sells Palin's performances to me.

Hats off to Sims and Robinson for taking two of my favorites.  Southland Tales isn't a great film, but it's so fucking strange that I'm constantly compelled by it, with Timberlake's musical interlude at its core.  And the Holy Motors segment as bugfuck as the rest of the film, that it jolts you awake in the middle of…

And next week will be your last retort.

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus "liminality of filmic exploitation" is a buzzword now?

@avclub-e3f5ab7f02122f95b801e13e2c586d6a:disqus "liminality of filmic exploitation" is a buzzword now?

Tumorous.

@avclub-997c221538094d134659141cf61d51e3:disqus I think that depends on how and who we're interpreting the misogyny through — the vast majority of regulars on here are nothing but the most non-misogynistic group of citizens this side of forever.  You'll get the occasional he-man woman hater, but if you check out their…

Jessica Chastain in an Anne Hathaway wig.  I'm scared already!

Uh oh, Tobias is gonna get a word or two from Gary Busey now….

So glad that someone else has noted that "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Pretty in Pink" are the same damn movie, albeit gender-flipped

I feel like a heel for preferring the Jimmy Stewart 1954 remake (yes, the one with those fucking Doris Day musical interludes), but I love the concert house finale nonetheless (Bernard Herrman amps the remake up too).  It's perfect Hitchcockian suspense: ticking clock, the need to maintain composure, danger in plain…

I think this one gets a bad rap from some cineastes as "minor Lang" given what they see as lack of subtlety and the like.  But this is one masterful film, and Spencer Tracy is marvelous.  It's one of the truly bleak films of the 30s (which says something), one where the hero goes down, and down and down after trying…

Milch is currently writing a spec script for New Girl.