Are you kidding. I'm not going to waste my time trying to list out of every actress or character, but the following films contain great performances from women: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Raging Bull, After Hours, King of Comedy, Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, Hugo, Age of Innocence, etc. etc. If you…

Bracco is one of the chief narrators of Goodfellas and is as vital to the plot as the three male leads. Period. Sharron Stone is not the protagonist of Casino, but she is certainly a lead in the film. She's pretty much core to the story as a chief motivator and force unto herself. To pretend that these are not major…

I didn't say why he directed the film. I said it was a good film. If you want to argue that point, feel free. I was being flippant by positing it as a defense. And if you want to argue the broader point, see my post about milieu above.

I agree, and I think that artists should be allowed to pursue stories that interest them instead of building stories around casting. It would be great to have more women and people of color writing, directing and starring in films—I don't think the road to that outcome is telling directors what communities their…

Also, one could argue that Lorraine Bracco and Sharron Stone, while not the chief protagonists, were pretty much leads in Goodfellas and Casino (only given billing in Casino though). I kind of believe in the milieu pass, where certain directors have interests that they should be allowed to indulge rather than engaging…

In Scorsese's defense, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is one hell of a movie.

Not sure I get what is so funny about this "serious" trailer. While it's true that the movie is a slyly comic satire, the original Poledouris score is pretty blood-pumping and resounding. It's not like the score or even the overall style of the film was in on the joke. They were designed to invoke patriotic "Why We…

Someone apparently left the Stormfront sewer lid open or installed a monster generator because these fascist and racist assholes have taken over large swaths of Internet comments sections in the last six months. They're everywhere now, at least on the Interwebs.

I'm not sure why people think it's spinning its wheels. I've said it before, but all the plot developments have more or less been logical—ones that have not yet been explained likely will be to a certain extent. The pacing is slower, but the show is no less plotted than any other contemporary show. It's not fast,…

Yeah, i think I have the scenes reversed here a bit.

I'd like to think it's just some random Lovecraftian entity pulled in from the void. It doesn't gel with the plot, but I love the idea of the portal pulling in strange, malevolent things from elsewhere.

It sounds like your main issue with the show is that it's not a conventional TV show with the general plotting, pacing and character development we've come to expect. People are going into this with the "golden age of television" expectations. I would argue that Lynch is throwing out the rulebook and doing something…

I find that an odd claim because almost no one I've seen on here who enjoys it enjoys it because it's a middle finger. We enjoy it as the latest film/show in the style that Lynch has developed since Twin Peaks. It's not like the original Twin Peaks because it's not on ABC and Lynch has stylistically evolved. In fact,…

Yeah, though I sort of concur with the others on the cheapness and exploitation of the kid scene, overall I think Twin Peaks takes violence pretty seriously. The stabbing death is about as horrible as it should of been.

In some way it is very cheap and exploitative, but that's something Lynch kind of likes to do sometimes. See: All of "Wild at Heart". Gratuitous violence is kind of part of his shtick. There is an element of gussied up slasher horror that Lynch has employed for a decades. I can definitely understand why that bothers…

Here's a really dumb fucking fan theory I kind of Like. Dale and Diane are actually Jeffery and Sandy, who for whatever reason changed their names. Now, this is dumber than shit and completely contradicted by canon materials, but it's kind of fun.

Yeah, Wild at Heart is in some ways a softcore porno film starring Dern.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the idea that being "tricked" or "played" by art is a bad thing. All art is illusory, it's all a show constructed to manipulate an audience. There's no magic behind the curtain; all film is mechanical and artificial. Like when a singer on stage performs a song for the…

Well, if that's the case all of Lynch's late-period work is lazy. But I disagree with that assessment because the scenes he creates are often technically and atmospherically amazing, pretty much the height of his craft. Furthermore, almost every plot point has been linked logically to what's come before, and those…

The problem is people think art is prescriptive rather than descriptive. Art has no obligation to advance a political perspective, and it's perfectly okay to report or reflect something rather than offer a remedy. That's the problem with the whole political art debate people are having these days. Essentially they…