Boogie Nights may not be the best movie ever made, but it's my personal favorite. It's just a flawless piece of work. Every performance, scene, song choice, shot choice, and dramatic beat is in perfect precision.

Can't have a supercut of Philip Seymour Hoffman without "ARE YOU ALL WET"

Happyish's pilot was directed by John Cameron Mitchell. I want it NOW.

On the subtitled shows note, one that I always recommend is Epitafios, the 2004 HBO show that combined crime drama and telenovela crazy to maximum excellence.

My big one is to watch more world cinema - no specific parameters, just more world cinema. I was in film school for seven years, walked away with an M.A. and I can count on less than two hands the number of films I've seen from Bergman, Truffaut, Ozu, Fassbinder, Ravitte, Tati, Kiarostami, Weerasethankul and Assayas…

I'm not some "digital sucks ass film grain is better HUR DUR" purist, and I haven't seen this movie so I can't comment too much. But the look of it cinematography-wise in all the trailers and all the clips here is sort of repulsive.

If it makes you feel any better, Schlesinger didn't give a shit and everyone involved with the movie knew it was a turd.

Because a) I didn't think they were, and b) it's one thing to have accurate depictions of annoying college types as side characters who are gone by the movie's midpoint, and another to have them at the center of the story.

My only big bone to pick on this list is Room 237. Holy fuck did I hate that movie. It was like a combination of every rambling "that guy" in film school, the homeless guy at the bus stop, and that Patton Oswalt bit about the lunatics who show up at open mics.

I didn't really get it either. Not a bad film, but not one I cared much about one way or the other. It got more meandering as it went along (particularly after her friend went to Paris), and not in a particularly unique or insightful way - it felt like this generic indie girl having a generic quarterlife crisis.

…..what? Ben Whishaw is an excellent actor, but no.

They should film the upcoming Neil Patrick Harris-fronted Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival on Broadway. Middle America comes for Trusted Safe Non-Threatening Homosexual NPH and then gets that awesomeness shot to their faces.

They should film the upcoming Neil Patrick Harris-fronted Hedwig and the Angry Inch revival on Broadway. Middle America comes for Trusted Safe Non-Threatening Homosexual NPH and then gets that awesomeness shot to their faces.

I would agree with Colin Firth except that final scene with his broken Portuguese and her broken English is so fucking sappy and makes me cry every goddamn time. It's like a Pavlovian trigger.

A few that got a lot of play (not all 2013 releases):

"Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't a male model."

Mad TV and In Living Color were all I could think about during that whole SNL debate. They never had any problems finding funny black women.

I loved Election and Citizen Ruth, liked The Descendants and About Schmidt, and didn't like Sideways. I know I'm in the minority opinion on the latter, but I thought it was good performances and direction in the service of some truly awful characters whose trajectories are boring and predictable.