I’ve watched Funny Games a few times.  There’s something so captivating about its vicious emptiness that pulls me back.

And Gaspar Noe while you’re at it. And maybe Lars Von Trier.

I just subscribed to the Criterion Channel and I have been pussyfooting around Michael Haneke’s films. I’m intrigued but from what I’ve read on this site, I’m trying to build up courage and decide which one to start with. I know they are all gonna be challenging. 

I was actually going to rewatch Amour around the time everyone was collating their Best of the Decade lists, but then my Grandma died of dementia and I just decided it was too raw a subject. Maybe one day I’ll revisit it, but not for a while.

Australia sucks. They put a “y” on the end of all their words. Probably call it Facebooky, bunch of convicts.

As per the Marie Claire article, she flat out denies it on account of Scientology having never been convicted of kidnapping or abuse, and insinuates vaguely that another, nameless church is the one doing all of that — I’m guessing she was implying Catholicism?

Is she aware Scientology has covered up some pretty despicable things or...

For a delusional cultist she seems like a decent person.

imagine being aware that Good Time exists and still being on the “pattinson sucks” train

What’s your beef? He’s a great actor. Just residual Twilight hate or something?

So Snyder suffered a horrible personal tragedy while making a movie that cost a quarter billion dollars. He was lucky enough to have Whedon step in and try to finish that movie for him at a time when he couldn’t. I respected how he acted at the time.

This movie about SUPERMAN and BATMAN is JUST FOR ADULTS

Ezra Miller certainly has to wring his hands around the concept...

Hope Ezra can pull this off without choking.

I do like that version, although Ripley-as-cowboy owes more to Wim Wenders’ idea of what Americans are like than to Highsmith’s text . Although she eventually came around on the movie after initially disliking it. I wonder what she would have thought about Damon’s Ripley?

The only one of these I’ve seen is “The American Friend.”  Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley!

The 2002 Ripley’s Game, with John Malkovich as Ripley, is worth a look. But Matt Damon was a revelation in The Talented Mr. Ripley, and I think the best portrayal possible of the man*. Part of that is that Damon is so fresh-faced and innocent seeming, part of it is that the script allows us to see him almost unraveling…

I’d wager you’re right. And good on Thandie. Crash isn’t the best, but I think people have beat up on it enough.