The point is that you don't want a situation where it's a vast majority of men OR a vast majority of women. (This includes individual departments, e.g., typically all-male grip/electric, typically all-female makeup/wardrobe.) I have worked in both, on set and in the office place, and both are horrible. The men descend…

Once were hummers, now are gummers.

Vincent Van Gogh didn't get famous until he was dead.

Wahl-burn

They're the Simon and Garfunkel of space operas.

He signed on when the title was still Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Dank Kush

A friend of mine dismissed Solondz's work as "sentimental", and it brought new meaning to the word.

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I'm kind of doubting that Zach Braff got Natalie Portman and Kate Hudson to sleep with him in order to be in his crappy movies.

I don't know how people can continue to trash "We Built This City" while ignoring "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", which is far worse on every level. And "We Built This City" is terrible.

Max Casella is growing into a non-psycho Joe Pesci.

Except that Hitchcock had already made three movies after Psycho at the time Truffaut interviewed him: The Birds, Marnie and Torn Curtain. And he made only three more after the interview.

I think the second half of The Birds is a brilliant, terrifying thriller and the first half is a deadening slog.

Psycho opens explicitly on December 11th, and the post-shower stuff takes place about a week later, so it's Christmas-esque. Hitchcock's second unit was filming downtown Phoenix for background shots (to use during Marion's paranoid escape), and Christmas decorations were up at the time, so Hitch just added the date to…

The twist: "J.P. Delaney" is not a pseudonym for Tony Strong, but for Daphne du Maurier.

I was disappointed by Piano Tuner. Its digital look felt cheap to me, and made me miss Quay-on-celluloid. Assumpta Serna is good in it, though. And she has an amazing name.

Wikipedia says yes, well, sort of.

Elmo Williams, who won an Oscar for his masterful editing work on High Noon… and somehow his last film credit was executive producing Ernest Goes to Camp. Anyway, he made it up to 102, which isn't too shabby.

No Regrets for Our Youth is underrated Kurosawa, it's beautiful and lively and quite moving. Setsuko Hara was great in everything she did.

Steve Lawrence would like to remind everyone that he's still alive and available for lunch.