Yeah, but what about GREAT films…like "Dr. T and the Women" and "Battlefield Earth" and "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Logan's Run" and "Mall Cop" and "Timecop" and "Minority Report" and "Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge"? (Seriously, though: I never really cared for the films of Louis Malle. Sorry, that was…

Lord Andre:  (below):  In my haste, I again did not write well; but I in no way intended to conjure up the thud of a falling body (if that's how you took it), only a plummeting and, to my eyes, broken talent.

Lord Andre:  (below):  In my haste, I again did not write well; but I in no way intended to conjure up the thud of a falling body (if that's how you took it), only a plummeting and, to my eyes, broken talent.

I meant pathetic as in:  touching - piteous - moving - pitiful - pitiable.  (Epic is living as long as Kurosawa or John Huston…and still making Art; being driven to self-extinction by unknown horrors is nothing to get exclamatory about (!!!).)

I meant pathetic as in:  touching - piteous - moving - pitiful - pitiable.  (Epic is living as long as Kurosawa or John Huston…and still making Art; being driven to self-extinction by unknown horrors is nothing to get exclamatory about (!!!).)

Yeah, rotten word choice on my part, E.BuzzMiller.  There are all manner of "originals" who prove themselves Artists, yet violate the conventions of Film-making, so deserve to be admired as "auteurs" (again, for lack of a better divisive term).  But there IS a distinction to be made between a Director…and an Overseer,…

Yeah, rotten word choice on my part, E.BuzzMiller.  There are all manner of "originals" who prove themselves Artists, yet violate the conventions of Film-making, so deserve to be admired as "auteurs" (again, for lack of a better divisive term).  But there IS a distinction to be made between a Director…and an Overseer,…

If you knew my name, you'd find it easily enough.  You've probably already stumbled across it…in ignorance, as it were.

If you knew my name, you'd find it easily enough.  You've probably already stumbled across it…in ignorance, as it were.

None of this is remotely true.  There is a difference between mastery of "technique" and the development of a "style"…and Tony never got anywhere near the second term.  He was also awful at choosing and orchestrating his scripts; which were uniformly jejune.  His over-edited, pulp-staged and lit, loud, slick, stupid…

None of this is remotely true.  There is a difference between mastery of "technique" and the development of a "style"…and Tony never got anywhere near the second term.  He was also awful at choosing and orchestrating his scripts; which were uniformly jejune.  His over-edited, pulp-staged and lit, loud, slick, stupid…

The best thing Tony ever directed was the 26-minute black-and-white "Civil War" short "One of the Missing," from the Ambrose Bierce story.  It was so moody, tense, sad, and minutely detailed, with simple yet gripping characterizations, and loooooong stretches of "pure cinema," devoid of a noisy soundtrack, that I…

The best thing Tony ever directed was the 26-minute black-and-white "Civil War" short "One of the Missing," from the Ambrose Bierce story.  It was so moody, tense, sad, and minutely detailed, with simple yet gripping characterizations, and loooooong stretches of "pure cinema," devoid of a noisy soundtrack, that I…

What did you think of the massive CGI fires in tonight's episode?  The first one, which was the end-shot of the "raid on Durant," with the towering black columns of smoke drifting rightwards, as seen from behind the (birch?) trees was (I thought) pretty impressive —and I wonder if we'd even question its "actuality,"…

What did you think of the massive CGI fires in tonight's episode?  The first one, which was the end-shot of the "raid on Durant," with the towering black columns of smoke drifting rightwards, as seen from behind the (birch?) trees was (I thought) pretty impressive —and I wonder if we'd even question its "actuality,"…

I used to think Breaking Bad was better shot…but this season, hand in hand with its direction and scripts, M. Slovis' camerawork has been tipping towards the commonplace.  My gauge for how good the Hell on Wheels D.P. is…is how much of the show is shot using "natural" and bounce light (ABSOLUTELY more than any other…

I used to think Breaking Bad was better shot…but this season, hand in hand with its direction and scripts, M. Slovis' camerawork has been tipping towards the commonplace.  My gauge for how good the Hell on Wheels D.P. is…is how much of the show is shot using "natural" and bounce light (ABSOLUTELY more than any other…

Here's an American sabre toothed cat fossil…that looks pretty much like the one from tonight's episode:

Here's an American sabre toothed cat fossil…that looks pretty much like the one from tonight's episode:

Actually, this show may have the best use of music (and "added sound") of any show currently airing, from its twangy faux period orchestrations, to its moody original "atmospherics" using instruments-of-the-time, right on through to the "practical" use, in tonight's episode, of the whore singing about all the…