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Movie 43 (directed by Peter Farrelly, et al.) will be nominated for tons of Oscars, obviously. :wink: Though it's not exactly successful as a coherent comedy, in truth it is more intelligent and less uptight about movie conventions than the vast majority of commercial movies, so that endears it to ...

When I saw you posted in here, Johnny, I thought you would be giving some love to the new Walter Hill movie. I haven't seen it yet myself, but I do like Walter Hill quite a bit. I haven't seen it yet - I might be able to get to it on Wednesday, hopefully before it leaves theaters! Heard decent thin...

Movie 43 (directed by Peter Farrelly, et al.) will be nominated for tons of Oscars, obviously. :wink: Though it's not exactly successful as a coherent comedy, in truth it is more intelligent and less uptight about movie conventions than the vast majority of commercial movies, so that endears it to ...

That's an impressive list, Bizarre. Kotcheff rubbing elbows with Kirsanoff ...

Good riddance to 2012 indeed. Sorry to hear about all the rough patches, Magilla and Reza. I became an uncle this year, with a cool little baby nephew who resembled Wallace Shawn as a newborn, and I have enjoyed other minor achievements. But really it seemed to be a rough year for the majority of pe...

There's a sad irony in Breakfast at Tiffany's having had to wait until after Damien was gone and unable to rejoice in his favorite film's addition to the National Registry. No one has commented on this, but Damien was listed in Entertainment Weekly's annual list of show business notables who died d...

Hello everyone, Season's Greetings & Merry Christmas and all that. Thought I'd drop in before my holiday family commitments heat up. In recent weeks I've caught, or caught up with, a few 2012 releases ... Lincoln (Spielberg) - it is what it is, which is middlebrow historical pageantry. I like th...

bizarre wrote:

Johnny Guitar wrote: - Le Quattro Volte (Michelangelo Antonioni)

if only!

Whoops! I had been looking at something about Antonioni earlier today ...

I'm going off of 2011 US (i.e., NY/LA) commercial releases. There are many of films I stiiiiiill haven't seen - either well-received films from directors I like or love (such as Go Go Tales , Meek's Cutoff , Mysteries of Lisbon , We Need to Talk About Kevin , and House of Pleasures ) or simply reall...

But you were also talking about me. And really, I think I'm much softer now. With Americans, even. Still, I can't forgive ANYTHING... come on... I'd say I was talking about you only indirectly - in that I was thinking, "Ah, look at the same old debates still going on here." (I haven't vis...

ITALIANO wrote:I think I have changed alot.

I was mainly talking about criddic.

It's good to know that some things never change, or at least, change very slowly.

Through Imdb and other sites I've checked the American reviews of A Separation, and by the way I must admit that some of them are very perceptive, and most - almost all actually - praise the movie. But that's not the point here. The point is: is it so difficult for Americans - and film reviewers ar...

I think that a phrase like "having an agenda" quickly becomes difficult to use because it's vague - what films don't have an agenda, even numerous agendas? Are we to penalize only films whose "agenda" might be something else, or additional, than to entertain? (As though entertain...

Hugo - weak first half & a decent second half. I have mixed feelings about Scorsese generally and mixed feelings about this film, but I'm willing to overlook them happily for the simple fact that highlighting this movie is a de facto gesture towards film history & preservation. The problem ...