Frankenehimer was always inconsistent, but along with Robert Altman, he helped HBO Films move away from stuff like National Lampoon's Disco Beavers from Outer Space and towards more meaningful works.

it's an incredible movie. It plays like an American Suzuki Seijun film. From the same writer of French Connection II and Keith Gordon's phenomenal Waking the Dead (2000).

I love Egoyan, and much of ADORATION was strong, if quite self-consciously a throwback to his pre-EXOTICA work, but he's really had a pretty sad artistic decline.

Egoyan's best film, Family Viewing, managed to turn the Armenian genocide and cultural diaspora into a genuinely great and uncomfortable comedy.

it was absolutely hilarious. I saw it with a huge audience and it played incredibly well

bullshit. she's done great work with Godard, Bertrand Tavernier, Volker Schlondorff and many other filmmakers. her own work as a director is by-and-large top shelf, too

Of course, if you bothered to do 2 minutes of research you'd see that it's a French production.

2 Days in Paris is phenomenal, and I really liked 2 Days in New York. The American Cinematheque is having a neat mini-retrospective of her work. I'm super excited to see Voyager (Volker Schlondorff, 1991) in 35mm.

it really is a shell of its former self

Robyn Lively attended a terrific midnight screening of this at Landmark's Nuart theatre. She told the audience that she needed a solid night's sleep, as she was engaged with filming a Lifetime movie the following day. Incredibly fun movie.

He mocks the way people who are heard of hearing speak and likens it to sounding like a dolphin's vocalizations.

Listen to the commentary for In the Company of Men-he's a disgusting POS

Like Siamese Dream! (LSD, heroin, pot and cocaine).

Stone Roses' Second Coming is a much stronger rock album inspired by massive amounts of cocaine.

I like to imagine that it basically morphed into the Canadan Bravo channel and short-lived Trio.

Some more major omissions from the last few years: Oshima Nagisa (fucking unbelievable), Bigas Luna, Coleen Gray and Brad Renfro.

well, America made the choice to use their vast fortune as a means of creating the world's greatest terrorist squad, which fearlessly traverses the globe in search of people to rape, kill and torture

I'd rather rewatch Night Falls on Manhattan

I fucking hate Pretty in Pink, but I really like Cryer in DUDES (he just attended a screening of it at UCLA with Penelope Spheres a few weeks ago), O.C. & STIGGS and the nutty HIDING OUT.

The Stone Roses' "Fonz" from Second Coming is very interesting. I remember being freaked out by the hidden tracks on Korn's second album as a stupid middle schooler. As great as "Sappy" and "Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol…" by Nirvana are, "Endless, Nameless" really is their best hidden track; what a phenomenal song!