I'm with Zetes. It's stylistically Rossellini's toughest film until the Histories (which I am an enormous fan of), but if you are on its wavelength it works beautifully.

I'm so sorry.

The films in the Kobayashi set generally aren't as good as the other titles by him they've released, but if only for The Inheritance it is worth it.

The Kuraharas are a bit like Sirk noir which is to say their universally great as they are off.

Sword of the Beast is probably the second best in the set. Hideo GOSHA, its director, is probably the best action director at least until Beat Kitano who he shares a lot of early formalistic and thematic qualities with. I also, thus, recommend their release of his first feature, Three Outlaw Samurai, even if it isn't…

Yes, Rossellini specifically connects her charity to the lose of her son which leads to a disconnect from the material world. Why should she care if her husband thinks she is cheating on him?

I don't find her complaints annoying at all, but instead a thematic exposure of her prison. The movie is in part (rather perversely) a comment on art with Bergman's body being her art and being trapped in a world that hates it is painful in a very real way.

Yeah it's a bizarre reaction on D'Angelo's part since it seems so obvious that at least with these three (haven't seen the other two) Rossellini is grappling with Bergman the star and utilizing her as herself. It's probably important to remember this is the man who said that if he was to cast for a fisherman who…

If it helps you any all three films are in english (well the two you haven't seen have Italian versions, but there's no reason to watch them).

I realize this is almost stereotypical for me, but I am befuddled by D'Angelo's reaction to Europe '51 which almost seems to be besides the point (Bergman's Francis is the same as Rossellini's from the previous film). I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt with Babette's Feast, but it seems that he just…

Eww.

Brewster McCloud. It's lonely being me.

His name even signals how angry he is.

Outliers is easily the worst book I've ever read. Fucking Dan Brown puts more thought into his stuff than Gladwell does.

No, you really can't.

Bullshit to you good sir. Said is one of the best.

Only for me to find out it's a different Jew known for overly smart gambling.

Not poor Rothstein though. Casino lied.

What I find most frustrating is that he has so many elements available for a quality article or whatever, but every time he sees this set of scientifically made conclusions and pulls out of his asshole ideas from them which make no sense. or as illustrated here are incomplete. He's just looking to see HIS opinion…

Though back then a giant was probably 5'6''.