I like Dune, I like Villeneuve, but the combination of the two could birth the most dry, ponderous, joyless thing in existence.

Lebowitz is a national treasure. In my mind a time traveler from the height of the Algonquin table, boasting a wit that at times could cut glass.  

OHMSS was famously underappreciated for its Connerylessness, but at this point I think people are overrating it. The ending is unique and devastating, but in every other respect it’s middling IMO.

Oh please, like there's anyone who hasn't already seen Judi Dench's butthole.

It’s a fairly small role but she’s so much fun in Jason and the Argonauts. One of the few performers in the Harryhausen fantasy movies who really seemed to get the warm but comic touch that could make those roles work. 

Heya, everyone.

Waiting for that cat licking the plate to knock the next domino over is as tense as a Hitchcockian thriller.

I assume the Met is trolling everybody. Allowing everyone to stream their operas is very generous, but leading with not one but two stories about women dying of contagious lung diseases?

Started yesterday with Carmen, which is still up on the site.

its a little odd as someone who has worked from home for years seeing how people are losing it because they have to stay home. i guess we hermit people were just biding our time before we could take our rightful place as rulers

An ice cream float is the ideal from of delivery for most medicines. 

I’d normally be excited by this, were it not for the fact that the film seems to have pretty much ripped off the plot of “Heaven Can Wait” and “A Matter of Life and Death” right down to the giant celestial stairway. 

“I am totally confused,” he said. “I think men are confused about all of this…this feeling of thousands of men and women who are losing due process, I’m worried about this country.”

Thank you for writing these interviews out again, rather than just using video.

My weekend has been very “of the moment” compared to my usual diet of movies and television from the 60s and 70s...

it’s going to be so funny when literally the entire internet is destroyed because of ad-revenue. i guarantee you start seeing ‘the magazine’ as a hot new way to digest content, with no pop-ups! 

“Over the course of one eventful childhood, young Adolphe fell from a height of three stories and hit his head on a stone; was later hit in the head by a falling cobblestone; drank sulfuric acid; nearly suffocated when freshly varnished items were kept in his bedroom; was burnt in a gunpowder explosion; was burnt…

How do people even take this shit seriously? Dog breeds are bad in general. They’re certainly bad for certain breeds with limited genetics.

Indeed, the idea that characters earn things or go on journeys isn’t a metric for quality but just one way of constructing a story. English fiction is much less focused on growth and learning of the main characters but on their reactions to circumstance and coincidence.

and he gets Laura back at the end via a combination of convenience and circumstance, but not much growth on his part.