What was your team name?

Yeah, I'm a little biased but definitely one of the best things the AVClub has posted recently.

Paris Belongs To Us is very much of its time but it also feels very contemporary. Young people just kinda hanging out, sort of pursuing artistic goals, becoming obsessed by conspiracies…it sounds like people I know, certainly people in my neighborhood. It would make a good double feature with Slacker.

According to Jonathan Rosenbaum, the final section of OUT 1 contains four characters breaking down: Colin (truncated), Thomas, Emilie, and Frederique's sinking into depression.

And a new Rivette obsessive has been born. Welcome!

I love Harrison Ford being unable to hide his disappointment as he reads "Shakespeare in Love." I also like that a romantic comedy won Best Picture.

Favorite Oscar moment was when Jeremy Irons made a point of thanking David Cronenberg when he won for Best Actor for Reversal of Fortune. Cronenberg had directed Irons in Dead Ringers, a pair of Oscar worthy performances, but sadly, not the sort of movie the Academy honors.

One of the things I miss most about The Dissolve?

Well, since you asked, so far one friend has had a parent die, another has had a death in the family and a third just got laid off. It's not even March yet. So yes, I feel no shame in declaring that so far, 2016 has been a shitty year.

The Name of The Rose is enjoyable and Foucault's Pendulum is okay though not nearly as smart as its reputation claims. Short answer: I wouldn't direct anyone from reading either novel - there's some value there - but there are MANY better authors you should read first: Calvino, Nabokov, Pynchon, even David Mitchell.

Nina Hagen puns before swine. Sigh.

She's quite charming and seems to be having a blast with the part.

Hot damn. Seeing Jason Moran would be totally cool.

Yep. I'm regretting not reading it sooner.

I'm reading The Master and Margarita and loving it.

Bennett's one of the last writers I'd think would be suited to post-modernism. On the other hand, writers should try different things.

Yes, I fear that this story is best suited to Bennett's memoir and the sections about Miss Shepherd included in the diary extracts he published in the London Review of Books. Both contain passages that are laugh out loud funny. It seems like both the play and the film are trying to find too much significance in the…

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What did you think of Against The Day?

Cool! I like his work, don't love it as much as others do, but he is very charming and entertaining in person. Enjoy.