I gotta see Much Ado, I keep hearing about it. No question that Branagh has some great ones. I still remember the first time I saw Henry V. I guess I’m the only one that isn’t totally obsessed with the Olivier.

The Polanski is fantastic, although Macbeth does lend itself particularly well to film, for obvious reasons.…

(Eliot disagreed — he thought Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood was the best — but I’ve never really understood that, since Kurosawa didn’t try to deal with the English language, which is the whole difficulty)

Or that the debt is on the king’s side. It’s a note that isn’t often played. While this might not say much, it is for sure the greatest Shakespeare on film.

Yeah. Bloody appalling he just took that opportunity to speak out against the media’s compliance with insane tyrants murdering artists and innocent civilians.

And don’t get me started on method acting. Especially when that fascist Milos Forman’s at the helm.

Hey, sincere thanks for your thoughts; it really does avail those in dire straits. (Jezebel’s silence disheartens feminists, and I’m not bright enough for Deadspin.)

But you are missing my point. I’m not saying that salaciousness isn’t abominable. I hate it when this stuff happens to me. I have “swinger” friends for…

Yeah, it’s pretty transcendent, and by far his best doc (not to mention the best doc on rock/pop music bar none). I was fortunate enough to be with him on a regular basis while he was making it, so I had a glimpse into the working method. One thing I’ll never forget was his exclamation, “The documentary has no form!…

I was born in Milwaukee and lived there through high school before moving to Europe and NYC and haven’t been back since; I have to admit I’m going to be a bit of a contrarian: I couldn’t help but notice, while eating pizza in Naples for the first time, that I hadn’t enjoyed a pizza so thoroughly since my youth in…

If you share my taste (and it sure seems you do), I’m tempted to say that the Harrison thing — a fascinating “double album” that interweaves his essential themes in a new context — is required viewing.

Give the programming language a whirl! It’s an oldie but goodie, durable and versatile; it’s been in use for 1,400 years.

I’m saying you’re saying things that are not only not true but injurious and driving me (and I doubt only me) to suicide.

Squarely not the “gist,” imports of which limn cultures that
■ can’t read 577 words but, remarkably, draft a third that amount with aplomb.
■ “believe.”

TL?

Louis is a masochist. All the incidents we know about — besides the phone conversation — took place in private, i.e. his hotel room or dressing room. He asked for permission each time, he received consent, he apologized after.

I’m not campaigning for him to receive the chevalier de l’ordre des arts et lettres, but the…

I dunno. I guess I’d draw the line at number three.

I think it was supposed to be who could not have been without a lack of the absence of any qualms at the complete dearth of compunction’s want. 

No, no. Just influencers. The awful truth: everyone will know what you mean.

Yeah, right. She’s smart. Carmen Kaas worked her derriere off to lobby for Tallinn to host the 2008 Olympics of Chess, facing Dresden (who won); Anja Rubik is doing more than anybody since Henry Miller to fight censorship; but Karlie snaps a selfie with a statue of John Harvard and, wow, Karlie’s smart.

I had tagged her…

In all fairness, he did surrender whatever grand ambitions he held upon meeting the young Wittgenstein. (It was a win-win, as it’s doubtful he would have otherwise agreed to work on the Numberwang decoder.)

I watched the whole thing, I forced myself. I seriously believe I’ve somehow injured myself.

God does she suck. She is the worst.

Once they printed a doubletime bill.

Yes, it looks like the show’s entering another one of its valleys.

So Bojack was referring to her? Never quite understood this — at first I thought the show was making a comment on her rise to fame.