I read recently that Wagner was actually declining in popularity throughout the Nazi as well as Weimar eras:

Even in the north? Goldwater was soundly defeated after opposing the 1964 act.

I was just hearing raves for “Housebound” while listening to a podcast about the more recent “Come to Daddy”. I should really see that someday.

Baloney & Friends should have known better than to have filmed in Anvilania.

Or maybe your squareness is why you found those so terrifying.

I liked The Rider, but it’s not like most movies and I can understand people not digging it. It does strike me as quite the coincidence that Lean on Pete was released the same year as that and Leave No Trace (if we ignore film festivals).

Speaking of that, I thought this thread revisiting it was interesting:

Huh, I found The Florida Project a relatively easy watch even if there’s some harshness around. Usually the kids are barely aware of how bad things are.

It’s the only anime film I’d recommend to anyone.

Burgess was interested in the idea of free-will, so the novel initially contains the Ludovico technique violating that, and then in the last chapter Alex changing in a more natural way.

I think there’s a decent argument for leaving it out, but his change isn’t supposed to be “sudden”. Instead he’s aging out of something.

Ah, you weren’t impressed by Vox Lux either (although I don’t think Portman’s acting is the problem with that).

Thanks for the tip, now a whole swath of articles are readable again!

The Bostonians at least has been adapted to film by Merchant-Ivory.

That reminds me of how dead people are often “diagnosed” as autistic.

A couple years ago Rupert Everett played Oscar Wilde in “The Happy Prince”, but my recollection was that it wasn’t very well received.

Changed him into a giant bug?

Yeah, here’s the bullet-point referencing that:

Some films have very little written for their female characters. That can be excusable, because not every character needs much screentime. But this film ends with the protagonist reuniting with his wife, and it was noted long ago that the way a film ends tells you what the film as a whole is going for, and her…

I watched that because it was on a list of the 100 best American movies. I wasn’t impressed, but then the only Altman film I’ve enjoyed is McCabe & Mrs. Miller.