TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

A brief glance at De Palma's Imdb page suggests he should stick to mob movies.

What, like Wise Guys?

Scarface, Carlito's Way, and the Untouchables.

[celedhring]

The burning of the library at Alexandria it isn't ( both times), but it's still sad.

Understandable, though. There weren't any kind of ancillary markets back then so film studios didn't have any reason to keep extensive archives. They kept copies in circulation for rerun theaters, but the advent of talkies rendered most silent films as little more than landfill material. Film preservation and archivism didn't take off until the 50s-60s, when the frenchies convinced the rest of the world that it was art.

[Capetan Mihali]

The burning of the library at Alexandria it isn't ( both times), but it's still sad.

Understandable, though. There weren't any kind of ancillary markets back then so film studios didn't have any reason to keep extensive archives. They kept copies in circulation for rerun theaters, but the advent of talkies rendered most silent films as little more than landfill material. Film preservation and archivism didn't take off until the 50s-60s, when the frenchies convinced the rest of the world that it was art.

Those bobos from Cahiers. 

[CountDeMoney]

It's spelled cashiers[/].

[Capetan Mihali]

It's spelled cashiers[/].

Was that the French Clerks?

[Beenherebefore]

Actually, it was a deeply existential movie about working in a bank, drinking coffee and having the odd affair.

[Duque de Bragança]

The burning of the library at Alexandria it isn't ( both times), but it's still sad.

Understandable, though. There weren't any kind of ancillary markets back then so film studios didn't have any reason to keep extensive archives. They kept copies in circulation for rerun theaters, but the advent of talkies rendered most silent films as little more than landfill material. Film preservation and archivism didn't take off until the 50s-60s, when the frenchies convinced the rest of the world that it was art.

Those bobos from Cahiers. 

Rohmer, one of the Cahiers gang, is considered a conservative by the bobo and proto-bobo press such as Telerama or the Nouvel Obs, the ones who said that Louis de Funès practiced "petainist" humour.

[Malthus]

The burning of the library at Alexandria it isn't ( both times), but it's still sad.

Understandable, though. There weren't any kind of ancillary markets back then so film studios didn't have any reason to keep extensive archives. They kept copies in circulation for rerun theaters, but the advent of talkies rendered most silent films as little more than landfill material. Film preservation and archivism didn't take off until the 50s-60s, when the frenchies convinced the rest of the world that it was art.

Heh, also the fact that until the development of "safety film" films were dangerously flammable - and got more so as they deteriorated with age! Keeping them around was actively bad for your health. 

[Beenherebefore]

I do believe Hamburg was set on fire by the RAF dropping Ide's favourite silent movies over the city.

[Eddie Teach]

I do believe Hamburg was set on fire by the RAF dropping Ide's favourite silent movies over the city.

Were they: bombs?

[The Brain]

[Eddie Teach]

 

[Ideologue]

I do believe Hamburg was set on fire by the RAF dropping Ide's favourite silent movies over the city.

Buster Keaton kicked some Nazi ass.

[Ed Anger]

Fatty Arbuckle raped many kraut women.

[Josephus]

The show is becoming a little too Fiona-centric.

I think she's the best thing in the show, though. Her role when she got arrested was Emmy-nominating for sure. Most of the other plots are boring. I hate William H. Macy. He's great when he's trying to scam, but his whole dying role this year has been annoying. All the bits with the gay son, his lover and his prostitutes is boring. It's only the only brother who otherwise interests me, and at least acts as a foil to Fiona.

this season has arguably been the best since the premiere. And it totally went off the rails in Season Two with retarded baby and the sex addict guy.