Beltmann

You, the Living [Du Levande] / Roy Andersson / Sweden More perfection from Andersson. Like Songs from the Second Floor, the movie is a series of carefully crafted, highly stylized tableaux that don't quite mold into a narrative but fit like jigsaw pieces into a kind of thematic consistency. (If the earlier film was about impending apocalypse, this one is about dreams, nightmares, and the desire for connections with others.) I'm a bit of a sucker for Andersson's stone-faced style (most scenes are one shot, with the camera perfectly placed to capture all necessary detail and action, plus hi

The guy Michael referred to as "Penguin"? I went to high school with that actor. Super nice guy.

This is genuinely ridiculous. Come on.

Yeah... still, I'm gonna try to get to both!

That'll help traffic, at least.

I'm a huge Packers fan and a huge Favre fan--I lived in Green Bay during the Super Bowl season, and it was bliss--and didn't want Favre to retire after last season. Even so, I believe the team did the right thing sticking with Rodgers. The organization badly mishandled the decision, but at the end of the day, it was, indeed, the right decision. Would the Packers have won more games with Favre at the helm rather than Rodgers? Based on comparison stats alone, there's no reason to believe that Favre would have outperformed Rodgers. Obviously Favre has intangibles that exist outside of the s

Indeed.... thanks!

But the real problem is that too many conservatives think of Hannity when they think of the ideal Conservative. Nearly every single one of my Republican or conservative friends thinks he's the cat's pajamas.

Insurance companies don't specialize in medicine; they specialize in making money by helping people as little as possible. My own family has been touched many times by the evil that is the medical insurance business plan.

I agree--we should leave those decisions to the insurance companies.

I would love to hear left-wing voices dominate the airwaves, but I oppose any kind of fairness doctrine. It's cumbersome, ineffective, and totally unnecessary.

Now you know what my last 8 years have been like.

If I still lived in an apartment, I'd be tempted to play that, like, really loud. Maybe on a loop.

But those aren't on TV... who pays any attention to them, besides other critics and movie nerds (like me)? At any rate, I suppose it's nice that there's something for movies like that; music really doesn't have an equivalent.

After enduring Shoah, now everything seems short.

I hope you aren't talking about the Academy Awards.

Heartless Bastards - The Mountain. About halfway through... so far, it compares favorably to All This Time.

I watched that the same week, I think, as Tony Kaye's equally harrowing Lake of Fire.

After that Arizona TD, I leaped up and shouted, um, something. Almost immediately, I heard the pitter-patter of footsteps marching down the hallway. Then I saw my daughter standing there, glaring at me with her arms crossed. "Daddy, why did you say a naughty word? You said a naughty word and woke me up!" "You're right, Kael. I should have said Holy cow."

Rules and facts have nothing to do with the narratives that play in our heads, sucker.

Boy A What is life like for a man who, as a young boy, was a participant in a grisly, highly-publicized child murder? Now released from prison, he is given a new name and a new life, and he is a soft-spoken guy who seems incapable of aggression--he can barely muster the courage to ask out a co-worker--but flashbacks provide complex psychological explanations for how he found himself caught up in violence. Although the movie's style is naturalistic, it often feels like a suspense thriller about guilt and inner struggle. The real theme, though, is forgiveness: Who needs it, who deserves it,

"About Today" is easily one of their very best songs, in my view.

I don't know about 2008, but we already have a winner for best movie of 2009.