Check was cut for a different song, not this monstrosity.

I'd be insulted if a no talent farted on my dad's music, got paid millions for it, and didn't have the decency to give a small royalty check to the estate.

No prob.

I know this is a rare opinion, but '80s Godard is the best Godard. Even his flops are amusing beyond words.

A Film Like the Others is actually proto Dziga, not actual Dziga.

I was/ am.

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus  And The Thing too.

@persia2:disqus It is, it pathetically is. I once saw this really important piece of work that could have saved thousands of lives fall apart because no one could agree on the patent paperwork.

Yes sort of, if you go to Amazon there's a boxset called Rarities (for simplicity here's the link http://www.amazon.com/Raoul… ). It has four of his features and the thing is R0. The only issue is that the discs are PAL so you need a Playstation or something like that to play the discs.

Even Black Narcissus is a miracle (and a very deserved one). I don't even really look at that category anymore despite it being my favorite aspect of the movies.

I think it is a great movie (earned its win), but that in Allen's career which is an embarrassment of riches it probably would come into my top ten (probably top fifteen though).

The oscar for DP rarely goes to those who deserve it. How Wong Howe and Toland ever won is a fortunate miracle.

47 years in the wild will do that to a person (though in terms of actual output it is dead center).

I was thinking Serbian Lady McBeth actually.

That's really a theme for a lot of Jews. Read some of Kafka's work which is often about his inability to assimilate. The Metamorphosis is particularly interesting in this regard since it is built on the idea that it is a failure by virtue of taking a Christian work (Dostoyevsky's The Double) and making it Jewish.

We prefer to call it that Scottish movie thank you (except when it is Serbian).

Obvious choices aren't better choices though. I have to agree with Allen (and Godard) that Manhattan is one of the weakest of his peak period of Take the Money and Run through Deconstructing Harry while Annie Hall strikes me as more important to his development as an artist than great independent of that (it is…

In all honesty that is probably the Allen I laugh hardest at. I still act out that flinching move he does in the film when he wants to prove he's small and meek.

That would suggest some originality from the staff though.

Nietzschean only in the sense that it proves god is dead.