Do we really need to know how he killed himself? The article works just fine without that detail.

I think (and I'm not entirely certain about this) the articles about the asshole who didn't invent email were removed prior to Univision taking ownership of Gawker because they wouldn't go through with the sale before all outstanding lawsuits were settled.

If it's the same HIM that I'm thinking of - the folks who run Vinegar Syndrome have discovered a print in a private collection, but apparently the owner is a nightmare to deal with so who knows if we'll be seeing it anytime soon.

Great. Now I have a mental image of Trump blowing his emotionally distant father.

There's a Kiwi film from 1982 called Prisoners that nobody's ever seen, starring Tatum O'Neal. 20th Century Fox aquired the distribution rights in perpetuity and promptly buried it. There are several rumours as to why, the main one being that Ryan O'Neal wasn't happy with the film and pulled some strings to make sure…

If he really wants to measure up then he needs to decapitate a small child who shouldn't have been on set in the first place due to labor laws.

The line "National Treasure meets Foucault’s Pendulum in an old point-and-click game" suddenly made me realise that the Langdon films are probably the closest we'll ever get to a Broken Sword movie.

Depends on the era and the quality of the print. If we're talking silent era, most prints were struck directly from the camera negative because quality duping stocks didn't yet exist. Since there's only a single generation difference between the print and neg, they can still look very good indeed.

The tragedy of Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc is just how many times it was lost. At the time, many big-budget films were shot with two cameras simultaneously so two negatives could be created. The 'A' negative would be the director's preferred cut, and the source for prints in the country of origin. Then, a 'B'…

If you're Region B compatible there's a great Blu-Ray available from Masters of Cinema in the UK. It has both 20fps and 24fps versions of the film, as well as the 'Lo Duca' version that circulated from the '50s onwards. Gorgeous quality.

I'd totally agree with that assessment for the first 6 episodes, but it's becoming enjoyable crap (with some actual good bits) as I hit the mid-season.

Good to know. I borrowed the first season off a friend who had recently marathoned it and stalled part way through season 2 due to the show's seeming unwillingness to deal properly with its themes or properly shake things up when it needs to.

I just started watching Person of Interest a couple of days ago, and I'm hoping that if I stick with it long enough Jim Caviezel's performance will start to match your description.

If there's one good thing about TheSingulatarian's comments, it's that seeing them reminds me I need to log into Disqus.

The Overlook is easily the best column on The AV Club at the moment.

What Shoegeezer said. Also, the problem with cutting either a workprint or other pre-print element would be the same as using an optical - a noticeable drop in quality during those shots - particularly given Aliens was shot on a notorious short-lived Kodak stock that produced very grainy images.

I just double-checked and it looks like they got married a year after the film was made. Can't confirm whether or not they were a couple prior to the film shoot though.

I'm pretty sure they met on the production and got married sometime afterwards. I'm not sure which is worse, to be honest.

Graver had such a fascinating career. I believe he shot basically all of the various unfinished projects Orson Welles had on the go in the final years of his life.