Soderbergh gets more and more impressive as the years go on.

Me too. Chuck Jones was a fucking genius.

Agree about Nichols, no way should Nolan be over him.

It would be fairer to split Hitchcock's career and consider him two different directors, one British and one American, than to rate Chaplin as more American than Hitch. Certainly all of Hitch's masterpieces were made in America (no matter what anyone says about The 39 Steps), and no movie is more American than Shadow…

John Carpenter is a better director than Frank Capra?

That movie where he was a train conductor was pretty good.

That movie where he was a train conductor was pretty good.

I'm in the middle of the Welles/Jaglom book…

I wish. Then they wouldn't have been so offended by that shitty score.

What's the point? Being jangling, harsh & intrusive, making the viewer wince every time they hear it, disrupting the fictional reality – these are the effects the filmmaker was trying to achieve?

I have it on DVD. Haven't taken off the shrink-wrap, yet.

Joseph Cotten is the fucking man, no doubt.

Not just you. The zither ruins the movie, in my opinion. Jangling, harsh and intrusive. I don't understand why anyone praises the score.

What's interesting is that for Star Trek, bottle episodes tended to play to the series' strengths. I think it might be the first TV show where that's the case, where the bottle episodes were often better than the other kind.

Nice, long, considered, full response. I appreciate your engaging my points. Obviously it will take me a while to digest in any intelligent way. Thanks!

The decision to ally with the wildlings was an unpopular but necessary move. The decision to meddle in the affairs of the kingdom are a violation of his vows and incredibly stupid.
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right before he gets stabbed he moves to lead the wildlings on an attack against the man appointed warden of the North by the King. He is…

Hannibal makes itself look like highly polished drivel. Seriously, who writes that stuff? The photography is utterly stunning, the visual images arresting, and Mads is great. But there's no THERE there.

Hannibal is preposterous, and crazily written. How it topped any lists, is bewildering.

they could've introduced the antidote thing without needlessly showing Tyene's breasts.

Robert basically established that might = right.