Careful, that blow is for the actors!

I defend Visitor Q a lot, and half the reason why is that it is 84 minutes.

This is why I stopped watching his stuff - everything he made was perfect for 80 minutes, but he insisted on making them 120 minutes or more. His approach to story and pacing really doesn't work for me at those lengths.

A personal story that explains why I love Haynes, and Safe, so much:

My emotional core is also oddly theoretical so I'm still very excited to see Wonderstruck.

I was thinking that I had seen a good portion of Miike's movies, but it turns out I've seen less than 1/4 of his actual output. Insane.

Agreed that Safe is the best, and incredibly moving, but I don't think Haynes has ever made a bad film.

It really was a bizarre summer of movies, leading into a gangster movie fall slate that included both Goodfellas and Miller's Crossing. I snuck into the former five times.

I didn't actually walk out during it but I was disappointed after for sure. I was already a huge fan of Blue Velvet, and had watched some of Twin Peaks too, so it felt like treading water, or Lynch playing to what people expected of him.

The only problem with Lost Highway is that Bill Pullman turns into Balthazar Getty. He really should have turned into another actor. Any…other actor.

I remember feeling this way walking out of the theater back in the summer of 1990, but I've come around on the film more over the years. The stuff that plays like self-parody bothers me less in the context of how great Cage and Dern are together.

True. I'm a big fan of Fandor which has lots of stuff, most notably a slew of experimental shorts, that can't be found anywhere else. Though I'm worried that based on what they did to their Keyframe blog and their desire to become more commercial, the catalog may start to suffer.

For sure, and the kind of intimacy that's pretty much out of fashion. I love that scene.

The larger point is that Trump has been a piece of shit since he first became popular in the 1980s. It's not like he was some saint who suddenly became awful leading up to the election…

Glad to see CBS is continuing its decades-long tradition of programming shows I will never ever watch.

Desplechin is sort of hold and cold by design, as the reviews of this latest by Dowd and others indicate. The films are generally overstuffed so you get a mix of scenes that work and others that don't.

But they didn't distribute it, right? I'm assuming not since I saw it in a theater…

Yes. Like everyone else they want to be "content creators" (vomits).

I like the optimism of your thinking but I'm not sure that online distribution has really helped this kind of work. The length, and general ponderousness, of Diaz's films is never going to fit with the kinds of stuff Netflix and Amazon want to put their money behind. I'm glad his films are out there, but they're a…

As she has proven over and over and over again on The Americans, Keri Russell can pull off any hairdo.