I think my big frustration with Inception was that it was about "dreams" but there was absolutely nothing dreamlike about it. And there was no particular reason it couldn't have been "layers of the psyche" or something and made more sense. And a few years later I saw Paprika, which was basically what I wanted out of…

Yeah, I might be totally wrong about this. I haven't seen the movie in about a year and a half or something.

Hmm. A maybe on how we're supposed to read Tracy. It gets difficult when we're trying to project the ideas of the filmmakers involved with little to go on but the film itself, so I guess it's a matter of differing personal readings. Because the ending of the movie is presented as a happy one and much of it seems to…

There's definitely a lot of good stuff in the movie (the dialogue is snappy and most of the performances, especially Stewart, are great). But there's the whole thing about Hepburn using it as her comeback vehicle. She was going through a career slump at the time and believed it was due to the perception of her as a…

I find The Philadelphia Story insufferably sexist, but it's also the best example of how much laid back charm Jimmy Stewart could bring to a performance. He's fantastic. The movie though…ugh.

Hulk also definitely has a Jekyll and Hyde thing going on as well though, which might distract from its position as power fantasy. Though it could be argued that if the reader had a strong moral compass, that might be a way to make them comfortable with the power fantasy. After all, Banner regrets all the smashing…

I'm glad we all forgot about Hannibal Risi………

Sadly, no. It was meant in a moare ye olde Englishe stayle.

I have been guilty of a lot of bullshit elitism about movies over the years but I believed I was getting a bit better. That is until I came across a a film podcast yesterday where one of the hosts decided to criticize a movie for "not being entertaining enough". He then stated that movies that focus on storytelling…

Agh. I took a course on "Writing the Modern City" with Teju my sophomore year of college. It was a great class but I was having some problems that semester and never turned in the final essay. He was nice enough to give me an incomplete instead of failing me outright. But I can't help feel incredibly guilty when I run…

"Loyalists will love it, detractors will renew their objections, and those who fell long and hard forRushmore may be stricken by a nostalgic desire to see this essential American auteur collaborate again with Owen Wilson, co-author of his earliest, most sublime creations. As any Anderson connoisseur knows, the man’s…

Me. Twice. It was pretty awesome.

Also, Isao Takahata.

Another anecdote I heard:

"The main highlight here is seeing Bradley Whitford, of The West Wing fame, play the new preppie-douchebag adversary. He’s shockingly convincing in the part."

Statistical nerdery: a "deviation" means a standard deviation, or how much one observation (in this case, the gay character) differs from the normal or the average ("normal" human sexual intercourse).

I see those fencing lessons are paying off.

The music in that scene was killing me. It's very Johnny Cash-y and reminded me of "Ring of Fire" off of one of his live albums, which is just fantastically hilarious.

The Haunting. Definitely.

"Paris, Texas opened at Cannes in 1984"