Yep. “Germany will never forgive the Jews for Dachau.”

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Whitney Houston, Janis Joplin, Sylvia Plath, Diane Arbus, Selena, Dorothy Stratten, Frances Farmer, Anne Sexton, Amy Winehouse, Daul Kim, Simone Battle, Amy Winehouse, Nicole DeHuff, Divya Bahri, Christina Grimmie, Jiah Khan, Minnie Riperton, Grace Kelly, Florence Ballard, Billie Holiday, Lorraine Hansberry, Carrie…

We always used to debate that after some incompetent headbutting chicks down at the clubhouse. Bad hard? Or hard bad?

Yeah. It helps the viewer to empathize

I know what you mean. I found mãe galinha really tiring for the longest time.

I did go pretty baroque (a mirror move) — blame Darconville’s Cat, which I’m rereading.

Garraty and Gay give Nietzsche a single sentence at the end of the Columbia History of the World: “Nietzsche was influential in his elitism and pessimism.” I think I tend to 10% of your one out of ten.

No, I liked your comment and was defending its style.

Not only have I, too, read books, meaning I’m fine with dropping a coordinating conjunction between three separate independent clauses; but in such days I can’t but empathize with your pessimism and even elitism, if that’s indeed how we must describe appreciation.

In fact, what’s the “conflict?” It’s a reactionary Christian right-wing vigilante movie. Either you like it, or you don’t.

If you like it, fine, but you then like reactionary Christian right-wing vigilantism. There’s no rule saying you can’t like reactionary Christian right-wing vigilantism, just like there’s no “rule”…

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(oh, and movies as “live” — The Godfather at Film Forum, packed with millennials who obviously hadn’t seen it: so enthralled it might as well have been Hamlet. One of the most touching things I’ve experienced in quite a while.)

So many things. For one thing, it is the last word on physical comedy. Of course nobody can best Chaplin and the glory of the geniuses of the silents, but it is the repetition of Fonda’s mishaps that transcend the trope. It’s the answer to Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton — & so many others, but for me Lady Eve is the grand,…

Critics’ poll 110th, Directors’ poll 174th.

15 critics voted for this film

She’s the best. I recommend Victoria Wilson’s bio to everybody — not only is it excellently written, but Stanwyck’s story is almost unbelievable. She rose from a vaudeville stripper, and she knew everybody. (I mean everybody.) It’s a cultural history of the States.

For me, Lady Eve isn’t only the greatest comedy, but it’s one of the greatest films ever made — I can’t see why it doesn’t deserve a place on those lists. The General is the only comedy that routinely appears on them, and I always think they should include a sound film.

Sturges is the comedy version of Welles. They…

Honestly, its good that Disney/Lucasfilms feel Solo under performed as we should want less Solo’s and more Rogue Ones.

Wish more people were saying this. The success of Star Wars is comparable only to something like the Beatles, who found themselves lamentably waiting for their first single not to hit number one. At…

Babe, the show is called Roseanne.

Alas! for one cannot bestow
That which she doth not possess,
And I do not possess but a single star.

It’s almost as if labor is a terrible investment in late capitalism. What a mess that would be.

I like the Kiminoans and their planet in Clones, but on a more general level, I also kinda like the total (one might even say debased) surrender to elements of real scifi pulp: the gladiator monsters and the curiosity of the first half hour, apparently drawn from one of the comics (someone here can surely fill me in),…

I wanted that so bad from the moment Rey finally approached Ethan — I mean, Luke — at the end of Force Awakeneth.

Instead, we got...

Honestly, I’m still not sure what we got. I don’t think they are, either.