The only good news here is that the time span described won't allow Hazanavicius to make a slight, patronizing spoof of Histoire(s) du Cinéma.

This whole Dornish clusterfuck is going to end when, as Dany flies over the city on Drogon, one of the Sand Snakes makes a snooty sorority girl remark about dragons and the lot of them are promptly incinerated.

Wasn't there a new 4K restoration of this just a few years ago?

That's uncannily similar to my own approximate list:
An Autumn Afternoon
Late Spring
The Only Son
Floating Weeds
Late Autumn
End of Summer
Equinox Flower
Tokyo Story
Early Summer
Story of Floating Weeds
The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice
I Was Born, But…
Tokyo Twilight
There Was a Father
Good Morning
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
A…

Journey to the West is a monumentally beautiful work of total cinema. Denis Lavant is the only performer in contemporary cinema who can match or even surpass Lee Kang Sheng's spontaneous physicality, and their pairing is a stroke of rare genius.

Lee Kang Sheng plays more or less the same character in every Tsai film aside from the Walmer series, and What Time Is It There even has two semi-sequels: The Skywalk Is Gone and (my favorite Tsai film) The Wayward Cloud.

Does it really need to be explained? Lots of people "from good homes" become alcoholics or join cults or commit suicide, etc. No one can say what has hurt someone else. It's worth pointing out that just about everyone on this show appeared to already be deeply unhappy when the Departure happened.

He's a hero for the common man, Affleck.

The Atomic Number!
Red Crotchlesspanties!
Amazingly Obsequious Man!
The Flim-Flamer!

I go in Barnes & Noble pretty regularly (I buy a fuckload of Criterions during the sales, plus I have kids). It's pleasant, competently laid out, and often loaded with customers. Of course we probably don't live in the same market…

There really is no neutral position, though. If a work of art espouses the ideal of a capitalist, white, heteronormative patriarchal nuclear family, it is fundamentally conservative. If it espouses a slight variation on this ideal, it is still essentially conservative. An idealized capitalist, monogamous homosexual…

I prefer the Alien 3 Assembly Cut to Aliens, and I'm not this guy*!

I have a Hedonismbot figure from Kid Robot. We had to hide it because my daughter adores him.

The first two are good! In fact, I really wish the series had ended with Bender's Big Score/The Beast with a Billion Backs. The Comedy Central seasons have about one season's worth of great episodes split up between all four, but the show was still at its peak at the end of the second film.

Let's not forget Li'l Smoky and Bigtits McPlotdevice, two characters the show let swallow a big part of season six whole. If they'd gotten the screen time Reyes does in season 9 she'd damn near be remembered fondly.

The X in FXX really stands for adult-onset diabetes.

She's a goddess IMO. Her songs are incredible. But that half song isn't much longer than any of her given parts on Reflektor.

"It's no Fall Out Boy!" - Josh Modell

I'm guessing it was a pregnancy thing, although she didn't sing lead on Neon Bible either. Still, she pops up with a verse here and there all over this record. At times it feels like an album-length duet. Still, I miss her spotlights. "Empty Room," "In the Backseat," "Sprawl II" and "Haiti" are all among their best…

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is great. It's my favorite post-72 Oshima and both a gorgeous film and one of the most successful instances of stunt casting in history. Bowie is terrific but a young Takeshi Kitano steals the movie. Oshima is going conventional here, especially relative to his ATG films, but he clearly…