Congratulations!!

It’s death by a thousand cuts: no native app for Vizio, center button on remotes doesn’t play/pause (only app that still doesn’t do this to my knowledge!), on easily my most expensive service (worth it for the movies, not for the user experience!)

THE KING OF COMEDY is on. Thinking about how the same guy directed KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON; the idea that he's some kind of one-trick pony is actually deeply offensive.

One of my new favorite movie podcasts is great, and I’m very happy for them and the people who live in major cities, but I do get a little annoyed nevertheless when someone says “I’ve been wanting to see this classic but I’m waiting to see it on the big screen” almost every episode

William Powell could play Marty Mauser but Timmy could not play Nick Charles

I like my comedy like I like my coffee, very black, add in some comedy of manners stuff and Alec Guinness playing multiple characters a half century before Eddie Murphy!

Just finished Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and why did it take me so long to watch the Ealing comedies?! Now on to The Lavender Hill Mob, then The Ladykillers (which I should have seen long ago because of the Coens’ misguided later remake)

I never could connect with it, I know I’m in the minority, but I only lasted three episodes

They’re trying to make it look fake!

vote for a little Italian American named Martin Scorsese please so I can listen to my favorite guys talk about a little movie called After Hours that I recently became obsessed with, and some other good movies sure

It was one of my favorite movies as a kid, and it has held up every time I’ve watched it since, especially today seeing it in a theater for the first time!

Given its box office so far, would be really surprised if they didn’t keep it in theaters for a while longer. A lot of theaters these days are noncommittal until the very last minute (usually the preceding Wednesday), except for the big release of that weekend

1991-1995 also a great mix of New Hollywood auteurs (Altman, Spielberg, Scorsese, Coppola, to name a few), more recently established (Coens, Lynch, Mann, Demme), and the next generation (Fincher, Spike Lee)

Without thinking too hard, top 5:

1926-1930
1941-1945
1971-1975
1991-1995
2006-2010

Probably 1991-1995, an interesting mix of movies I discovered later, and some of the best animated movies ever that I watched closer to release

Bridge of Spione!

Just watched Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, and it’s a hefty 4 1/2 hours, but the pace is somehow RELENTLESS. Crazy entertaining crime thriller

Love the Lang comp, just watched some earlier Lang silents, and was blown away by how wildly entertaining (and yes, often wacky) most were. He really understood why people go to the movies, and truly feels like a Spielberg or Nolan, master of the visual art but also just a crowd pleaser

Great day to be honoring one of the great comedy directors!

Great list! I’m a Mutiny on the Bounty appreciator, but mostly for the Charles Laughton performance. But as a Billy Wilder lover, seeing both his BP winners represented is great! And All Quiet on the Western Front!

Seeing OG Nosferatu with a live score this week and decided to catch up on Murnau’s filmography and other 20s German silents, and the trifecta of Lang, Lubitsch, and Murnau rocks so hard!

Fritz Lang in 1924 did what 2024 Kevin Costner couldn’t: release both parts of his epic DIE NIBELUNGEN in the same year. This feels like if Infinity War and Endgame released the same year

It depends on the distributor, smaller indie movies will sometimes have 5 minutes, I’ve been burned by that before, arriving late to one or two of them! But most of the major distributors, it’s 15-25 minutes

Bob Hope as Paul Atreides, hijinks ensue as he tries to avoid the responsibility of being the Lisan al-Gaib

I think I’m more thinking of the younger cinephiles who have become devotees of labels who are doing very admirable work, but have a specific niche that excludes a lot of underseen gems from pre-1960/1970. I worry they won’t even give a second thought to a Blu Ray of a 1930s classic