Those are all pretty well regarded by film buffs and critics (and 39 Steps is actually the 2nd best-selling Hitchcock film on DVD after NxNW according to The Guardian, but that may be only in the UK). But their relative obscurity probably has to do with their age first, and their Britishness second.

Murnau in general used camera movement all over the place. Check out The Last Laugh from 1924, or City Girl from 1930. Or any of Sternberg or Stroheim's (1920s) films, especially The Docks of New York.

To be fair, Murnau's Faust and Lang's own Die Nibelungen had already established several of the techniques and even outdone Metropolis at times. The late 20s were filled with lots of experimental camera trickery, even if it was often used to more surrealist or hallucinatory ends than epic sci-fi or fantasy.

The link between
THE HANDS
and
THE HEAD
MUST
be
THE HEART!!!
[repeat]

The great thing about Wadjda is that it's both able to explore the issues of the gender divide in Saudi Arabia while also exploding a lot of myths about the oppression of women there. In the West, you get views, like this show, that imply that women are constantly locked up or are in berkas 24/7 from age 5 up. Or they…

Everybody just needs to go watch "Wadjda." Now.

I loved the Box of Paperbacks reviews that Keith did. Maybe a feature along those lines for a specific niche. Maybe you could find a sponsor tangentially related to the theme? Like see if some upcoming sci-fi film would be interested in sponsoring a few months of classic Sci-fi stories/books as viral marketing?

Babylon 5 reviews in danger of getting canceled early!? Quick, cram two seasons worth of reviews into the space of one!

Yeah, this. I'm guessing 7 seasons was what was stipulated in most of the principal actors' contracts. The show could go on another season (possibly by extending book 6 or 7 out, if they are actually plotty), but the actors may well want more money or just do other things. HBO would pay up now, but after the probable…

Chaucer wrote in Middle English, not Old English!!! [/Nerd Rage]

The worst offender of in media res had to be Battlestar Galactica. There was a period in the second/third seasons where like 6 episodes straight started like that, including the infamous "Black Market" and I got so sick of it.

Again, you and 90% of the world can disagree on the quality of acting in Altman's films. That's fine. But technically inept acting? How would you define that—forgetting lines or not sticking to character? I'm not a fan of Beatty's performance in McCabe (he's sweating too much, faux-naturalism may describe it), though…

Imprecise, vague, messy are all fine. You cannot like Altman and those would be legitimate reasons. But technically inept? It's like hearing the Velvet Underground play Sister Ray and calling them technically inept musicians because everything's drowned in fuzz and distortion and the song goes on too long. It doesn't…

Now it sounds like you're talking about abstract art. Similar claims have been directed at Pollock and his supporters, or numerous other avant-garde artists. And like Pollock et al, you're looking at Altman and calling his work easy and artless because you don't like it. In particular, you're goinb to have a hard time…

Yeah, Calvinism is more "you and your pastor and everyone are terrible sinful people and you all suck."

You just have to accept Christ's love, and then you don't burn in hell!

It's just too bad that he was his own favorite writer.

I remember liking the beginning of Time, and I'm very fond of Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer… and kinda fond of The Bow (batshit as it gets), but god the end of this movie made me angry. It seemed to me like it slid from an interesting but skewed take on romance and identity into full-on "Bitches be crazy!" misogyny.

No, my point wasn't that social media does not influence people's opinions. My point was that social media influences people's opinions in way that is not dissimilar to preexisting forms of communication. Discussion at a party can indeed massively influence people's opinions (just as social media can), especially if…

Yes. Before Twitter, no one formed opinions based on conversations with their equally ill-informed friends, family, and co-workers, or from the bombard of information on news stations, tabloids, and desperate newspaper headlines. No one ever made poorly informed statements just to try to participate in an ongoing…