The Baxter! Which could also qualify for this list of great unloved works.

Do you mean they written by Reed/Paul after Wright left, or just directed by Reed? Cause they felt a lot like Wright writing, but they definitely weren't his styling of camerawork/editing. (I feel like Wright's similar explanation montages in the Cornetto movies rely much more on snappy editing and center-composition…

Wendell B. Harris's Django would be damn interesting.

Yeahhhh… pills are actually another one of those weird things you don't expect that may actually have gluten. It's used as a binding agent in a lot of tablet-type pills.

Although most of the Pirates' music is just a rip-off of Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score.

Well yeah, but that was before 2% of the human population and 75% of the vegetation just up and vanished.

Honestly, the most faithful Dracula adaptation may be Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary.

I'm kind of glad it's not on HBO, because I feel there would be undue pressure on the show to show nudity. As disturbing as Hannibal gets, the violence is generally nonsexual in nature, and thus it feels a lot less exploitative than many of its brethren.

Oh, 4K BD will never be anything other than an ultra-niche product. Most people will probably never even bother with the 4K TVs needed to get anything out of them. I was just noting that current Blurays can't do real 4K (more to output restrictions than to storage capacity).

Sony has actually already announced Ultra HD Blurays/players, which will do 4K. A bluray player only puts out resolution at 1080p, so even though a Bluray could probably hold a 4K movie, there's no point (hence these new machines). Still a lot of companies (like Criterion) advertise that a Bluray comes from a 2K or 4K…

Well, some critic at the time said of Before Sunrise, "I can see how young men would watch this and fall in love Julie Delpy. I can't see any young women watching this and falling in love with Ethan Hawke."

But ideally those warnings would be placed there to make teachers/parents aware of potential issues so that they can be discussed in a more controlled, comfortable context before they're encountered without preparation in the book. I mean, the argument for trigger warnings isn't just that they're for helping troubled…

Oddly, Prison Break was a huge phenomenon in China. I'm not sure if it actually ran on a network or was just streamed/pirate DVDed like crazy, but that shit was like the Breaking Bad/Mad Men/Game of Thrones of late 2000s China. I've heard similar things from Brazilians too.

But don't must teachers (especially in high school) begin a unit on Huckleberry Finn or Mockingbird with a discussion about the n-word and its use? Likewise, I don't think any decent film studies teacher would just put on "Birth of a Nation" without first preparing students for the racism they're about to see. These…

不過她是台灣人所以你應該用繁體字。你做得不好。

Well, it's likely that quite a few of the films in question have already been restored by various third parties. Many of Universal's big silent films (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera, Stroheim's Foolish Wives and Blind Husbands) are in the public domain and have been restored/released by Library…

I'm weird and actually prefer Chaplin's sound films to his silent features (the shorts are a different beast). I've never been as fond of the tramp's shenanigans as Keaton's or Lloyd's, and the sentimentality of the silents is unfiltered.

The speech certainly has its defenders. I though it was ridiculous when I first saw it (a Jewish character quoting Gospel?) but I've come around on it. And for Chaplin, it absolutely was necessary; Hitler's power had grown tremendously during the film's development and the US had still not entered the war. It was no…

The Music Room, Charulata, and The Big City (with bonus The Saint) are all excellent films are in good restored blu-ray editions from Criterion. I think they have several of his other films up on hulu too in not fully restored but passable transfers. At least, the version of Devi they have up couldn't possibly be…

I find bigger orchestral scores work for dramas (my my favorite silent score is Robert Israel's for Docks of New York), but dinky piano scores are far better for silent comedies. Big orchestral flourishes just don't mesh with Buster Keaton.