"The 3-D tends to separate into planes, with rounded characters in front and flat, complicated backdrops in back, giving much of the film the look of an old 3-D View-Master reel. "That is honestly the best recommendation for a 3D movie I've heard in the past five years. That's exactly what makes the old ones great,…

Edgar! You owe it to yourself to seek out the old "big box" US VHS of Daughters of Darkness (not the director's cut VHS). The old, trimmed version of Daughters is a) more taut and effective, and more importantly, b) features Delphine Seyrig SINGING the theme over the credits. I would love to see a DVD release of this…

Apparently, they went out of their way to mix the first record so it would sound great on the shittiest devices…responding to the realities, I guess, whatever you think of that.

yes, it would seem to be on the same ground as gimme shelter, since someone was acquitted of murder bc of the footage

Eric Matthews by himself is one thing, but I think Richard Davies made Cardinal into something a little more unique than just a retread. I love the Moles and Davies solo stuff, but Matthews on his own—what you said.

I think the Office just popularized what Alan Partridge started…and I think Christopher Guest had already established the mockumentary pretty well…but I'll agree anyway.

Televison had three records…granted, # 3 came well after their potential influence would have had the biggest impact, but it's a darn fine record.

Cardinal is maybe the best one-record band ever, but I'm not sure how influential it has been…(Do I count? No, I don't count.)

I have a 16mm print of this that jams in some nice Vegas footage that, if memory serves, is not on the DVD:
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I remember when Soft Bulletin came out the ads said it was the new "Pet Sounds." it wasn't even 1/20th the greatness of Transmissions from the Satellltie Heart, nevermind fucking Pet Sounds. What the hell were they thinking, begging us to hate it before we'd heard it?

I have Dial M for Murder on DVD and VHS—both field sequential 3D—and for Rebecca I have a Korean DVD and a 16mm print. Love Fontaine in that.

The story is that MMM was his answer to an industry that would make crappy Sally his biggest success…

See the making of Transformer DVD for the Bowie vox isolated. Just beautiful.

this is my favorite Lou Reed record, but yeah, you know it's other people's trash. Their loss!

"Doctor—
Doctor Octa—
Doctor Octopus!"

Children of Paradise and
maybe I'm misremembering, but Umbrellas of Cherbourg both use festivals as counterpoints to the inner gloom of the protagonists, I think the latter only briefly. But the scene in Children of Paradise is rather striking.

Also, my addressing my reply to Craig J Clark was cleverly hidden in code in the body of my message, but I realize I'm playing a higher level of game than you guys, so I'll just spell it out here.

Before anyone says anything, "I will be doinf so" is the new youth slang. I knew what I did there.

I will be doinf so, after I read the relevant novel. But that project stalled out after reading the second novel, which was a major comedown in quality from the first. Boring where the first one was suspenseful (despite knowing the outcome), and tediously obvious in the way it endlessly pounds home simple parallels…

I thought that The Departed and American version of The Ring both solved some narrative problems in the originals while strangely creating new problems that the originals didn't have, or, viewed backwards, that the originals "solved" problems that the remakes had. I also recently rewatched Purple Noon after having…