This is…really fantastic. Body Double is great, great.

Not sure there is any director, and I mean ANY, besides Micheal Mann, who could make "William Petersen running in slow motion to Iron Butterfly through a window, then slashed by a serial-killer Tom Noonan" look iconic and impossibly cool.

That Lumiere short…….jesus christ. I remember watching the other Lumiere Shorts, which were all fairly prosaic things, or little slices of life, or enjoyable small moments.

He certainly seems to commit much more heavily. The scene where he's in the suburbs and strips fully naked and screams in unfathomable rage at his bland neighbor is very good.

He's credited as "Richard Weisz", for some reason. The lines that Sam has about the grasshopper, the boathouse, "We are doing something, we're waiting", and "I'm gonna pass out now", seem to be very much his.

Gregor is such a good character. A flabby, totally nondescript guy who is a ruthless backstabber and the most cunning operator out of everyone, who also gets killed for.. (I dont really understand the reasons behind whatever happens…intrigue, or whatever).

So many killer moments in that. The coffee cup thing being the one 'tell' that his character is more than he seems.

90's Jennifer Connelly is a peak, peak woman.

That movie also had some really interesting shots that I still occasionally think about!

Oh wow, no idea he passed. He was a giant. His work is phenomenal both on a screen, a book, and absolutely BURSTS off wall. His move from sign painting to art is kind of obvious and really, really cool. It's all so crisp and pretty! Also, he's not an utter cynic and phony like Warhol and Lichtenstein.

That show is amazing, but jesus, it really rubbed your face in it. Breaking Bad had Walt *doing* interesting/neat stuff, Omar was daring in the Wire, Al Swearingen was at least loquacious and poetic. Everyone in the Sopranos was low-minded and ran incredibly small crimes for cash.

Also not weird, I guess, that I've also met Lobdell and that he came across as incredibly nice and thoughtful.

The episode that begins with him gesturing at the ceramic piece (with the image of heaven?) and Al understands that burning bodies of the Celestials wont allow them to die/ascend correctly…and then Al uses his men to dress up in Celestial garb and brutally slay Wu's rival, and then Wu slices his Qu off and does the…

It also has BOTH Harry Dean Stanton and M. Emmett Walsh, as well as a Theresa Russell who is incredibly good and so, so pretty and natural in it. http://www.tcm.com/mediaroo…

It's not exactly Tarantino's connected universe, but yeah, you can easily see a shared thing where these guys all talk to each other in prison and share the 'ethos' (it is ALSO in a few lines that Walt Dietrich has with Dillinger in Public Enemies and is clearly noticeable in STRAIGHT TIME, the Dustin Hoffman movie…

Weld's character is also very fascinating in a way that most of Mann's female character's arent (they're not awful, but they can be real embodiments). Weld's character was the ex-girlfriend of a drug runner who was abandoned in Columbia? Is that right? It's BARELY mentioned, and I have no clue how Frank knows this,…

The burning bar! That thing is referenced fairly often (as an oxy-lance, which is also a cool name for it) in other media. There's a pretty great podcast called CRIMETOWN about organized crime in Providence, Rhode Island, of all places, where a gang of thieves in discussed breaking into a warehouse and cutting…

Caan, in the diner seen with Tuesday Weld (who is gorgeous and also great in this. She's tough as hell and…man, what a cool female character!), espouses a similar philosophy to Neil's "heat around the corner" thing, where he talks about dropping everything important in your life in a moments notice if necessary, and…

That line sounds pretty silly but…yeah, Frank is really willing to, literally, destroy everything he has, and you have, rather than compromise. (He's kind of like Howard Roark from the Fountainhead, although a diamond thief, not an absurd architect)

He went HARD undercover.