Great article, Ignatiy. It’s wonderful to see the earlier Ridley Scott ads, previous to things like the Chanels and the Apples.

Well, if they’re having the orchestra both play the score for AND shoot every episdode, they may have bigger problems than just money.

And Marten Holden Weiner as the floating, creepy ghost of the Tsesarevich Alexei, son of Nicholas II

Stray observations –

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Testament is very much worth it. And maybe plan on an hour or two afterwards to clear out your head.

We need to get freeloading animals off of welfare and back into the nation’s circuses, zoos and racetracks.

Well, she definitely would have gotten Trump’s attention if she changed “meh plea” to “meh pee”.

All of us here are Kinja tulpas.

You know, I’m going to miss you, Mr. Looper.

Watched Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja with my 11-year-old son last week (disclaimer: the movie’s probably not for every 11-year-old) and it used “fuck” in the dialogue in a similar fashion. We’re pretty liberal when it comes to the kids and adult language, but my biggest peeve is when a word like “fuck” is regularly used in a…

I’m jealous! I did however preorder Criterion’s Barry Lyndon.

Cuba, Russia, and the Duchy of Grand Fenwick, if I remember correctly.

“Madness” works for the shortform. ;-)

I’m waiting a couple of weeks to start HACF as I’m behind on my other shows, but if it helps, and if I’m deemed worthy to follow in the esteemed footsteps of those before me...

I’m nothing if not a believer in the blatantly obvious. I’m shocked I actually managed to get there first!

Time for a little space fisting from the Giant Green Hand of Apollo.

Looking forward to the Alamo Drafthouse clowns-only screening in 2025 of The Day the Clown Cried.

Playtime is the more ambitious film by far, but I still laugh more at Mon Oncle. And because it’s on a smaller, more personal scale, I think its points about modern life actually hit harder.