The head shrinking roast was a really interesting way to wrap up a show that was mostly about nostalgia.

As someone who was introduced to the Hip through The Sweet Hereafter, thank you for posting this. I was looking to see if anyone else made that reference.

Over the past month I was looking up critical responses of Rivette's Out 1 and was surprised to find how divisive Léaud's acting ability is amongst critics. One said that Out1 made very good use of his limited abilities, another declared him the most sensitive French actor of his generation and that the film…

That was amazing.

The reputation of the New Wave makes the films come off more intimidating than they are. Some are pretty obtuse, but a lot are really pleasurable.

Earlier today I typed a response to someone's blog entry on Un Flic that it turned out would not be allowed. So reading this, I'm just not going to get over that frustration today.

I've never read that letter, but wasn't Truffaut's reactions filled with years of built up resentment. I get the feeling that they were "Goddard's just like that" until it got to be too much. I'm always the first to declare it's too much.

I hated 2 or 3 Things I know about Her and decided not to see any of his post Anna Karina films after that. Maybe I'm wrong, and I should try some?

I've only ever seen The 400 Blows (The only other Truffaut/Léaud collaboration I've seen is Two English Girls, which is more of a follow up to Jules and Jim, though appropriate to this series, ends with Léaud's character realizing he's grown old while not wiser). Now I have more incentive to try and see the whole…

Maybe, I didn't see Zero Dark Thirty. I was thinking something that was less directly about the Obama administration, but if something about it is directly about something that happened under Obama best represents the spirit of the age, than so be it.

The commentary or the original list? I feel very really protective of The Gleaners and I.

I don't think I knew anyone besides my parents and me who saw it when It came out. Which makes its omnipresence on lists these days personally baffling.

I do remember an editorial about how Batman was George W Bush like in that he's willing to make difficult decisions in the face of chaos. My neighbor, who pointed out the editorial, thought it was ridiculous that the film makers would put that much thought into it.

Shit, I missed Finding Nemo and I did see that. Editing now.

I really with Christopher Nolan would make "small" movies again.

Me too, I decided to never see another Tarantino film and I feel great about that.

In the 1990s when I was teenager, I saw a lot of movies as they came out. I really dropped off my seeing them s since then and I feel kind of bad about it. Someone who sees a lot of movies used to be my identity. Now I'm someone who doesn't. Of this lists I've seen:

Started in slashers would be a large sub category.

About a year ago I was with my Dad and he found an old extended interview with Jimmy Stewart by Johnny Carson. Carson was a huge Western enthusiast and wanted to focus on the films Stewart made with Anthony Mann and John Ford. I have never been really into Westerns and have been meaning to watch some of the Mann…

Torn Curtain is so bad, it's hard to say what made Hitchcock not click with Newman and Andrews (Was it that they were from different acting styles than the early stars? That their on screen images didn't click as strongly? That they were just better with directors who cared about acting?)