I love love love Close-Up. It totally blew me away.

The Last Unicorn has a very lovably odd voice cast - Mia Farrow, Angela Lansbury, Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Keenan Wynn, and Robert Klein!

FRIDAY
James Adomian live - Great show from one of the most lovable comedians. He doesn't do impressions as much as CBB fans might assume. But when he does, he does them exceptionally. His material about gay supervillains had me dying, and he told a great story about Joan Rivers.

I watched Spring Breakers this weekend, too, and I kind of hated it. I don't see how it's a deconstruction of spring break or spring break movies. It's really more of a revelrie, indulging in spring break but with Korine's typical air of aloofness.

Are you thinking of Kalifornia?

@avclub-7fe30f83b8e5444c948077a061740793:disqus Thanks! That is pretty much exactly what I wanted to hear!

Did anyone see The Last Stand? Is it as stupidly awesome as the trailers made it look? Or is it as surprisingly non-stupidly awesome as the fact that Kim Ji-woon directed it might suggest?

I'm pretty sure more people have read Twain's takedown of Cooper than have ever read Cooper. Twain is definitely winning that feud.

Yeah, Approximately Infinite Universe is great. Definitely my favorite Yoko album.

I'm a fan. Like @avclub-500e75a036dc2d7d2fec5da1b71d36cc:disqus says, she's wildly inconsistent, and most of the experimental stuff is just unlistenable. But there's so much good shit, like "Walking on Thin Ice" or "I Felt Like Smashing My Face in a Clear Glass Window" or "Death of Samantha" or "No, No, No" or "Yes,…

I believe most contemporary B&W movies are shot on color stock and then converted to B&W. This is partially because it's expensive to get B&W film processed. And often — as I suspect was the case with TMWWT — the studio likes it because it gives them the option of fucking over the director and just releasing the color…

The first time I saw TMWWT, it seemed like this really heavy drama, a dark rumination on the heaviness of life or something. The second time I saw it (on Czech TV, incidentally), it seemed like a hilarious comedy about a completely empty personality, where the comedy comes from the huge disparity between the supposed…

If I recall correctly, Billy Bob Thornton says on the commentary that he quit smoking immediately after making this movie.

Wasn't "Alabama" more of a hatesong than "Southern Man"?

I haven't seen A Private Function, but I like Alan Bennett, so I'll probably give that a try someday.

I'll give it another go. I enjoyed the scenes at the school, but it started to go downhill for me after that. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it.

a (mostly) off-topic question…

Neil Young already did a hatesong for "Wooden Ships" when he wrote "Hippie Dream."

The action scenes are interesting because it's usually a huge event happening to lots of tiny, faceless people. Human beings always seem really miniaturized in an Emmerich action sequence, as they do in DeMille. It's all about showmanship. To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is great…

if nothing else, Emmerich is a great widescreen showman who knows how to stage mayhem on a grand scale. Compared to something like A Good Day To Die Hard, his compositions and camera movements look downright elegant. (White House Down may be the only big-budget action movie released this year not to feature a single…