That’s as funny as my favorite of those absurdist ESPN ads that ran about twenty years ago. One of the newscasters tells the viewer they’ll be right back after this message. The director yells, “And we’re out for five.” The second newscaster looks at the first and says, “I don’t even know you anymore.”

I sense the dawn…

I always thought (and so I agree with the article) that it’s an expressive use of timbre that expresses authenticity. Opera singers use it all the time. (I’m a classical musician.) Waltrud Meier does this startling, toneless gasp at the beginning of the third act of Barenboim’s Parsifal, the first human sound after…

Great post! I dare say The Conversation has a certain snob appeal; I don’t quite see why it’s considered so much more highly than Pakula’s conspiracy thrillers. But I do not get snobbery. The Godfather is the Great American Novel. Better: The Great American Novel is The Godfather. (It just so happened, for reasons too…

It’s a pop culture list, I guess.

Tarantino gave Rio Bravo a boost by naming it one of his top three. Film geeks like Hawks’s silent first act and total eschewal (eschewment? too tired) of the closeup.

“It was a different time. If you were black, and you were an astronaut, you were out of work.”

Just to clarify, the Imperial Star Destroyer consisted of two variants.

The I-class has diagonal support beams supporting the tractor beam targeting array. The Devastator, famously introduced in ANH’s opening shot, is a standard I-class that, as Vader’s flagship, was customized, but those modifications don’t include…

In this age of prestidigital media, we need all the Tolentinion legerdemain we can grasp with our lucky straws.

More easily troubling, or “with troubling easiness?”

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[Crosses penis]

It’s six am and I am so hungry now.

(By “we” I mean the Gawker demographic, the educated urban/suburban population.)

Can you translate the article for those who don’t understand it? What does sexting represent? What’s the “effect?”

Are you saying it’s difficult to trust politicians? Or men are having extramarital affairs more than women? Or social media is alienating? I’m being serious, I don’t understand, and I’m working on a piece…

No question.

What’s the one after Fight Club, and the one after Titanic? I don’t know 90s film.

The opening of 8 1/2.

To go with Empire is thus pretty classy. Star Wars is fun, but Empire is, in the words of David Cronenberg, the most beautiful film ever made.

My respect for Charlie Rose plummeted upon discovering this game show host was a guest.

I am so tired of pointing this out to people who haven’t read enough Melville.

Also, TR-8R’s favorite album was called Hookomalur Humkrish, the Star Wars universe analogue to The Hum, the second offering by British cult rockers the Hookworms; Kasdan has said this has absolutely nothing to do with Indian politician C.…