He’s all right in that young republicans ep of Party Down.

Altman’s movie Kansas City well worth a watch for anybody interested in this era and its mix of crime and music!

I’m here to second this. Why, AVClub, why?

Mostly agree, but I think both Kael’s career and her Kane book are a bit more complex and nuanced than all that. She did claim to be anti-auteurist in her battles with Andrew Sarris, but was not beyond championing directors whose work she liked because it was by said director.

I saw it in the cinema here last spring and absolutely loved it. It’s definitely a breezy adaptation, but I found it really charming.

I happened to be in London on a brief sojourn back in the before-times. As I was strolling past the houses of Parliament, there was Ben Kingsley sitting in a car right outside. I was starstruck. Like, I actually froze in my spot and didn’t know if I should walk on, stand and stare, get out my camera. I ended up…

I think those things have a lot to do with it - I remember people telling me things like “you just like her cuz she’s hot, duh” or whatever. I’m like, dude, watch The Others!

It’s still fun, I think, although probably tainted by Thandie Newton’s recent accusations against Duigan. Amazing to see all those great performers SO YOUNG, and Newton, in addition to Kidman, clearly on the cusp of stardom.

I’d seen Kidman in a few things before - loved Dead Calm, Flirting is fun, some others - but this is the first time she really blew me away, which began a mini-obsession I had with her for about 15 years. I Loved this film so much I drove an hour to see it twice and bought the vhs when it came out. Everything about it…

Serial Mom?

Damn, a burn from the old school.

You may be right, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. That’s all I was pointing out. The article makes like torrenting is dead, and it’s far from dead.

Ha ha, maybe. I’m not a big fan of Radiohead at all - I just think the article misses the mark on its claims here. Having lived through that period, I remember the immense hype about OK Computer.

A few thoughts. I’m not sure I’d qualify OK Computer’s success as “mid-level,” but I guess it depends on how one measures success. It was a multi-platinum album in the US with 2 inescapable singles, received widespread critical acclaim, and topped the year-end best-of polls of just about every music magazine out there.

I was a 20-year-old semi-stoner when it came out and it was perfect. Gen X grew up on a lot of shitty cartoons. We might nostalgize them now, but aside from old Bugs cartoons and some other classic stuff that we had access to, our own cartoons were pretty poorly animated, with repetitive narratives and uninspired…

Yup, also the “Beyoncé drop” comment, which, I can totally see why surprise releases might be called that these days, but they’ve also been around forever. It’s another way to discredit Swift, this time for being derivative of a “more original” artist - agreed that the article fairly drips with misogyny. 

When I was a junior in high school we did Macbeth, but our big semester assignment was to choose any one of the comedies or histories and write a term paper on it. I chose Much Ado about Nothing. I don’t know really remember why, I think I liked the title. I had no clue what it was about going in. I had an annotated…

My favourite example is the scene from As You Like It when Rosalind teaches Orlando (whom she loves) who to woo, especially in its contemporary Shakespearean context. A male actor, playing a woman (Rosalind), dressed as a man (Ganymede), pretending to be a woman so that Orlando can practice wooing Rosalind with…

Do you mean The Slugger’s Wife? The worst film ever directed by Hal Ashby?

Weren’t Thelma and Louise and Boys n the Hood in ‘91, too? And some really important indies came out that year, too: Slacker, Trust, My Own Private Idaho.