It's a great sequence and was originally on the list, but I ended up disqualifying it because there's so much live action in it — we let a couple of these scenes get by even though they contain a reaction shot or interruption in the animated scene at some point, but this one cuts back and forth between the animation…

You're describing "What Is It?", @BooUrns. "Everything Is Fine" is still not a great date movie, but it's about the sex/murder fantasies of that same guy with cerebral palsy: the screenwriter-star, Steven Stewart. It prominently features him screwing and murdering women, not always in that order, but there aren't any…

I love her too, but her fake face makes me incredibly sad. 

You didn't dream it, but we didn't put it on this list because technically it's a full-length animated movie.

I also would send that card to this comment.

Hey now. I didn't say mine was a shrieking horror, I said any pony created on this thing turns into one when you choose the creepy gigantic cats-eye option. Mine isn't a shrieking horror, it's a fluffy hipster with ironic facial hair.

So far I'm hopelessly inept at keeping that resolution, horse face.

Okay, I found it, still in the office. Drop me a line here with an address to send it to, and it's yours. And then don't say we never gave you anything! Particularly that we never gave you a cartoon-derived fleece hat. Cause that would be a lie.

Yes. "Nightwatching" reminded me immensely of "Draughtsman's Contract" by way of "Girl With The Pearl Earring" (largely for the attempt to reproduce an artist's idiosyncratic style consistently throughout a film) and "The Da Vinci Code."

Editing this piece earlier this week brought back memories of my obsessive love of Peter Greenaway in college, and tonight I came home and finally watched “Nightwatching,” which I brought home from work in 2007.

I didn't want young-Scorsese-in-a-garret by way of adapting HUGO, I just felt it would be more a more effective way of communicating his childhood issues than this story was. If we're supposed to judge this largely by way of how it gets across his history with film — and that seems to come up every time someone talks…

YES, thank you. No wonder I couldn't track it down. I kept thinking it was Russian or Hungarian, and it's Czech.

The one thing I'd really like people to get from these back-and-forths is that "Your opinion is wrong" is a reductive, unhelpful, obnoxious way to address differences of reaction. There are always reasons why people react the way they do to art, and it's interesting to explore the differences between them. Just saying…

Central Station
Despicable Me
Le Havre
Martian Child

Yeah, since we filmed this, more details have emerged. Much more here: http://survivalcode.com/

Oof. Yeah, Scott and I were firmly divided on both of those. I'm starting to feel like we're The Odd Couple here. Or the two costumed freaks endlessly slapping each other in New Order's "True Faith" video:

"all the people who love Hugo love it because it's about love of film,
and they genuinely can't understand how anybody can love film and not
love a movie that completely derails its own potential narrative in
order to be about how great movies are (or were)."

Oh, I disagree on that. It's unfiltered 180-proof balderdash and fluff.

I've got another Book Vs. Film percolating. If I revive the column, could we maybe only be enemies til the end of the decade?

I won't be back to the office til next week, at which point I'll have to check whether it's still sitting around or someone took it. Remind me then?