"Call Me" sounds like a dude doing a Nico impression.

Then we're both more than old enough to understand "masterpieces" aren't all minted out of one style or theme, and that weighing one recorded in '89 vs one recorded 20 years later doesn't mean a damn thing.

How old are you? Because I actually remember back when everybody was bumping Fear of a Black Planet in their cars (on cassette) as they drove down my street.

Re Auto-Tune: it's usually unfortunate when a writer fastens on an artist's particular tool/technique. Yes, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is Kanye West's best work (a masterpiece)—but he used Auto-Tune extensively in the recording of that work, and the work is great in part *because* of - not in spite of - that.

Liquid Television? Yeah, maybe - but I was thinking more like Superjail…

So, so glad you wrote this piece on Fly Away Home and will get people to watch it…That said, I think that Never Cry Wolf is an amazing film. (Mark Isham's score for the film is so damned good, on par e.g. with Mark Knopfler's Local Hero score of the same time.)

The Boy From Dartford, Kent Who Dreamed He Was From the Delta

He stole Big Hero 6 as soon as he came into the picture. (Is it any wonder the movie ends with his character, too?)

I have tears in my eyes, just reading those quotes. Goddammit, this is a funny show—funny in the way that e.g. The Honeymooners, All In The Family, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Odd Couple and The Jeffersons were for me as a kid in the 70s. Even under the big tent of The New Golden Age of TV, some attractions are…

Shireen being burned alive aside, this was one of the worst episodes of the show so far, quality-wise. Dorne and the Martells are a bore, inertial, and even a bit soap-opera-ish. Indira Varma is chewing scenery every week, and it's driving me crazy. What's worse, the sword-and-sandals stuff in Meereen was stale—for…

True, he's been insistent in directing films which have often flirted with didacticism re violence (I'm not complaining - I've been a *huge* fan of his work as director). But in this ONE case of American Sniper, I think he's been really ill-served by writer Jason Hall, whose script reads as badly as it plays; and also…

I'm thinking of Depeche Mode: "Your own 'Murican Jeebus/Someone to hear your prayers/Someone who cares…"

>It’d be like making an action movie with George Zimmerman as the hero.

Good ole Christian-conservative media: subsidized via mass group & institutional sales and pushed on or given to "audiences" (tix for Bella were in fact bought in blocs & given away) - after which conservatives holler that there ought to be full individual choice & liberty in all things!

Monteverde denied that about Bella—but it's a funny "coincidence" that he sold the movie via conservative/religious media; and even courted the attention of Jeb Bush's wife (after which he was granted some sort of made-up award by the government).

To judge by the summary & quotes in IMDB, Monteverde's previous feature Bella also looks pretty…special.

Is there *anything* wrong with I Love Lucy reruns? I'm serious.

I think you're right.

Lots of great films, here; but…how can there be such a list, without e.g. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, or Uncle Boonmee…?

It took me more than twenty years, and the release of Inherent Vice - which I'm struggling to read - to admit the same thing to myself. I admire Pynchon, find him ambitious & funny, am as absorbed in his personal mystery as anyone else, and I see how he spins vast research into gold—but he doesn't pull me as does,…