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I should have remembered that "Arthur" premiered in 1996.

A "Destry Rides Again" reference. I love it.

My wife and I saw "Regarding Henry" in 1991. It left us speechless. It is shorthand between us for an abysmal movie as in "at least it wasn't 'Re: Hank'." That someone should find it inspirational is alarming to say the least.

They should retitle the movie

"Stage Door" is terrific. As you said, it has an insanely good cast.

I had always thought of "The Women" as George Cukor's consolation prize for getting dumped from "Gone With the Wind."

Glad to see someone had a nice word for "Southern Comfort." With "Wild Bill," it is my favorite Walter Hill movie.

"Romancing the Stone" was basically a romantic comedy. The trailer for the movie made it look like "Raiders of the Lost Ark," but the movie itself has an utterly different spirit and dynamic.

Ohio University 1989

I saw this one a few years ago. In some ways, this is pure late 1930s Warner Brothers, about a "good" gangster who takes care of the "bad" gangsters. It also taps into Russian folklore about the naive hero who triumphs, the way the hero insists that he was "just a cook" in the army despite having terrific

I loved "Little Miss Sunshine" when I saw it. It is the funniest road trip movie since W. C. Fields' "If's a Gift." Alan Arkin is outstanding as the grandfather, but everyone in the cast does great work.

Delighted to see someone with something good to say about "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus," but I wouldn't call the film primarily a comedy.

This made me laugh. Thanks for reminding me.

I remember liking "2" more than the original "Lethal Weapon." I loved Pesci's rant about why you should NEVER go through the drive-through because they always mess up your order.

I loved the Guilty Pleasures feature in "Film Comment." Some columns really made me laugh or bubbled over with enthusiasm, like Scorsese's. Eventually, however, the columns became dull.

I love both of them. Chicken Run was claymation, and Chicken Little was Disney animation.

Chicken Run and Curse of the Were-Rabbit are terrific.

Glad to see love for "12:08 East of Bucharest." It is a terrifically funny movie about a serious subject.

Anybody remember the Bill Forsyth movie "Comfort and Joy" about a war between ice cream vendors in Glasgow? Not my favorite Forsyth movie, but it was apparently based on a real incident (and he apparently toned down the nastiness of that for the movie.)

I've seen the first of Lang's 1950s Indian movies, and I have to say it had a certain charm. (Certainly moreso than "Land of the Pharaohs.")