TV/Movies Megathread

[The Larch]

What's the Mora/Negra distinction in the chart?  Since the Mora illustration hardly looks like an Arab woman...

Mora is a moor (Arab from the Maghrib). The illustrator doesn't seem to have witnessed many of the subjects he's supposedly drawing since even people with just 1/8 non-white blood are pictured dark as black coffee.

Color coded for your convenience! I guess there must have been some kind of one drop rule or something.

Interesting he considered it so normal a black dude and a white woman would get together they had a caste for their offspring.  The 16th Century Spanish Empire was disturbingly ahead of 1930s American South 

We had to save all our intolerance for non-catholics, so bumping uglies with other races was quite ok. As long as they were catholics.

[lustindarkness]

Interesante.

[garbon]

The Good Wife's episode this week made a reference to Always Sunny. I wonder how many people are in the demo for both shows.

edit: Actually it looks like their writers trying to channel the zeitgeist. They also had a recent episode that poked at some quotes from Scandal...of all things.

[Josephus]

Fargo is good so far.

One question. How did he get the wound on his hand. I missed that. [spoiler]Was that when he bludgeoned his wife?[/spoiler]

[11B4V]

Fargo is good so far.

One question. How did he get the wound on his hand. I missed that. [spoiler]Was that when he bludgeoned his wife?[/spoiler]

[spoiler]From the shot gun when Billy Bob shot the cop.[/spoiler]

[Josquius]

I watched the second episode of Hannibal. Yes....that was quite good.

Is Agents of Shield any good? Any shows (comedies?) I may have missed lately? I'm going travelling from tomorrow and will be spending a large amount of time on trains, need stuff to watch on my kindle fire.

[Liep]

Any shows (comedies?) I may have missed lately? I'm going travelling from tomorrow and will be spending a large amount of time on trains, need stuff to watch on my kindle fire.

Brooklyn 99 is new and a lot of fun.

[Queequeg]

Silicon Valley is wonderful.

[Sheilbh]

New Girl

[garbon]

New Girl

Definitely not wonderful in the latest season.

[Sheilbh]

New Girl

Definitely not wonderful in the latest season.

Oh

I mostly stopped watching after Prince happened.

[Iormlund]

Is Agents of Shield any good?

Not really. Hacker chick () is insanely HOTT though.

Any shows (comedies?) I may have missed lately? I'm going travelling from tomorrow and will be spending a large amount of time on trains, need stuff to watch on my kindle fire.

Have you seen Episodes?

[garbon]

New Girl

Definitely not wonderful in the latest season.

Oh

I mostly stopped watching after Prince happened.

It wasn't that good before Prince either.

[Sheilbh]

Oh also the new Trip. Brydon and Coogan in Italy. It's still very good.

And W1A.

[Savonarola]

L'Atalante (1934)

The film has the reputation as Vigo's masterpiece and as a huge influence on the nouvelle vague.  Both of these are fair, but it's also a product of its time; there's even song and dance in it.

I saw the Criterion collection of the film and, after watching the film, listened to the pretentious film critic's commentary.  He had two interesting points; the first was that the "Poetic" final third of the film was brought about because Vigo was seriously ill at the end of shooting and couldn't film more.  So they had to work with what they had.  The second was that the film works because Jean Dasté really isn't a convincingly macho; had, say, Jean Gabin had the role the violent outbursts would have been genuinely terrifying.

Even with the films flaws it's still a masterpiece.  Boris Kaufman's cinematography is extraordinary, Michel Simon's performance is amazing and Vigo had the ability to make lemonade out of a melodramatic lemon of a story.