That means he earns 1.2 Amazon Primes an hour!

That means I'll be seeing more of Milch at The Frontrunner Restaurant at Santa Anita.

From McSweeneys:

>>The state of American Fiction is "bleak" because premium programming on cable TV/premium networks/Netflix has essentially replaced the literary novel.

Directors SUCK at telling stories, that's why they're directors!
Maybe you should make movies to keep them away from the Howard Hawks', Johns Fords, Stanley Kubricks' and Martin Scorseses of the world.

Between mass culture and critics, who's left?

David O. Russell made American Hustle to keep it away from the likes of Martin Scorsese.

Would you both settle on the fact that it won 50% for the anti-anti-Semitism angle and 50% because of the soundtrack? I can't think of any other reasons.

How about The Red Shoes (Powell), The Band Wagon (Minnelli), Love Me Tonight (Mamoulian), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Hawks), The Merry Widow (Lubitsch), All That Jazz (Fosse), Swing Time (Stevens). All by directors equal to or greater than Kubrick?

If ZDT had lost the dumb scenes at the CIA headquarters with Gandolfini in a Leon Panetta wig it would have been better. Those scenes were the most Argo-like.

When done right (not Chicago) musicals are the closest thing to pure cinema there is.

Plus Der Bingle kicked ass.

Citizen Kane should have won but How Green Was My Valley is a fantastic film.

Thinking that the movie was about "violence is wrong" or an "anti-western" is a pretty shallow way of watching the film. What you were looking for is the type of message film that doesn't age very well like Crash, Slumdog and others always mentioned.

but Gandhi introduced western audiences (and stupid college kids like me) to the man and his philosophy, and the history in which things, like the mass movements of millions of humans, the death of the British Empire, etc., had an enormous impact on the world.

Dowd was just winning me back with his Mission Impossible article but now this.

As a group the Best Picture winners over the last 20 years have been really shaky.

Actually Williams has Robert Forster's Oscar.

Crash was the rare Best Picture winner where the backlash started before it even won the award.

>>>who's afraid of the Kremlin?