Yeah, it was perfectly uncomfortable/hilarious in the typical Nathan For You way, but I also thought her "performance" got genuinely more compelling and believable with each "again." It's like the Kubrick method, where performances become more interesting and achieve a kind of heightened hyperreal weirdness by the…

Yeah, isn't it like a non-anamorphic 16:9 image? Like a little rectangle in the middle with blackness on all sides, if I remember correctly. Plus poor image quality. I think it was maybe the R1 DVD's fault just as much as Netflix though. That was why I've never seen this film, even though it looks interesting and like…

I read a lot of really dense film criticism that could be called "pretentious" but man, Thomson really deserves that overused word. His writing is just the most pompous, condescending, digressive nonsense. You learn nothing from it except that the author has a very high opinion of himself.

I think you could argue that The Tenant trades in the same kind of themes as The Shining — both films about a "space" (apartment/hotel) seemingly making a man go insane, with both (especially Kubrick's) suggesting a kind of endless repetition of the past wherein the former occupants or activity of a given space can…

I'd hardly say that the endings to Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby are presented triumphantly or as if Polanski is condoning rape, though. Polanski's films are interesting to me because they're basically all about Evil. No surprise considering his childhood and what happened to Sharon Tate — but there's of course also…

Kubrick never saw any horror films? I don't care what he said, that's patently untrue, as simply looking at Jan Harlan's account of some of Kubrick's favorite films will attest to. If anything, he watched LOADS of horror movies before making The Shining in order to figure out what to/what not to do. The film…

His best film? Why would you want to do that?

She'll always be Millie Lamoureux to me.

I've always thought Manhunter is the only good (indeed, great) Lector movie.

In certain ways, BOG was the best band Jimi had. Sure Miles had his faults but when he and everyone else was on, it was stupendous. I think that even if Miles didn't have Mitchell's virtuosity he still held the groove down better and thus allowed Jimi to explore his instrument to even further extremes. Those live…

I'm one of the few people who absolutely loves Demonlover, and I liked Boarding Gate a lot too, but I still haven't worked up the interest to make use of the Summer Hours DVD that's collecting dust on my shelf. I wonder if I'm just more into the ostensibly "trashy" Assayas stuff? Those movies were like an awesome…

Strange how they decided to set the show in New York City, too. Where could they ever get the idea that people actually live there? Very odd.

Yeah, I agree with that, and maybe it's part of why this is easily my favorite Zep album (admittedly, I'm not much of a fan anymore though). I find it's their most consistent, with only two songs I don't care for, and I just love the sound they achieved on stuff like "Over the Hills," "No Quarter" and especially my…

It doesn't seem like many people have seen it, but the original is really great; anyone who digs dark 70's character studies and/or James Caan definitely should check it out. Surprisingly this doesn't seem that bad — visually, at least, it looks quite good — but I doubt it could be as good as the original.

Miami Vice is a masterpiece and, along with Heat, Mann's finest work to date. And Mann is for my money the best living filmmaker, certainly in America.