That's a fine thing to believe… but it's not actually how the law works. If you only consented to sex because someone threatened to leave you or to spread lies about you or…. (at any rate a shitty thing for someone to do to you) then you still consented hence there's no rape. Anyhow, as I've tried to make clear (this…

Here's the AVClub's original summary of the incident:
What happens between Gudrun and Pete? The camera cuts away from the scene in which they kiss, rather than lingering on it before pulling away to the skyline, as it does with Don and Betty. But we know this: She, at best, entertains mixed feelings about his advances.…

At the risk of all hell breaking loose: Pete doesn't rape the neighbor's au pair; he coerces her into have consensual sex with him much in the same way that a blackmailer or an employer who says 'Have sex with me or you're fired' does. That's a disgusting and awful thing to do and we hate Pete for his version of it,…

Yep. Pure wishful thinking. See also Tina Fey.

Two For The Road is a hell of a good movie; really it's the grand-daddy of cross-cutting, time-shifting films like Eternal Sunshine and Memento, maybe even Eyes Wide Shut. I did a chronological edit of TFTR here - https://vimeo.com/58958265 if anyone's interested (it would make a good Blu-ray/dvd extra). Note that The…

Maybe. In my imagination 'Home Birth' ends a la the end of Mad Men S01E06 Babylon with artful crosscutting and dissolves elevating the show to a new level. Unfortunately, Girls never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

The bottom-line is that the show's not cinematic enough - if they were going to do the flash-forward, we needed dissolves to all four main characters, and yeah, they needed to spend the money to get a shot of Shosh in Tokyo.

It's a killer generation. Mirren starts about the same time with things like Age of Consent and The Blue Remembered Hills (for TV), does O Lucky Man! shortly after that, and is never less than utterly fantastic. (Hitchcock turned her down for being too good-looking for the Babs/Anna Massey role in Frenzy!) So that's…

Ah yes, the film that plays after the Frozen short, which about a million kids are going specifically to see. Where's the review of *that*? (I'm serious).

Haneke's Austrian and TPT is set in Vienna, so there's that. I forget the details but a bunch of his films set in Austria (starting with Seventh Continent) are sometimes described by Haneke as his 'emotional glaciation' series or trilogy, where apparently that's supposed to be a specifically national theme. Americans…

Thanks. I see that eps of Dag are available on youtube and that subtitles for them are around online too…will definitely check out!

Thanks for those suggestions (I seem to remember looking around for a movie she was in with Mifune's director called 'Skagerrak' but coming up blank).

Your google-fu may be better than mine, but unfortunately I can't find anything to confirm that this was more than a widely held fan supposition.

And what happened to Iben Hjejle? I was completely in love with her after this and Mifune (and so was almost everyone else male and female I knew).

Take original, subtract misogyny, add misandry, wash down with CG, print $$$.

Shadows and Frog
Take The Fozzie and Run

I thought May et al. *did* ask GM to join forces but that he turned them down.

Jack White gets a lifetime pass for doing Van Lear Rose with Miss Loretta Lynn.

Blomkamp is pretty much the poster-child for the new reality that movies mostly go into production without a script just a concept/story idea/pre-existing property. The world-building and visual design work proceeds in parallel with the development of a script but ultimately the script is never cracked whereas there's…

This was a Kurt gag in Season 1 IIRC.