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[jfb]

Montmartre as post-Amélie tourist destination.

Griping about the Angelika Film Center in Manhattan. The seats are too small! The lines are too long! I can hear the subway when it goes by! New Yorkers are spoiled rotten.

A.O. Scott reveals that movies are different from books. Why are we still having this conversation?

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[jfb.livejournal.com]

Psycho is a great example of why you should never go to horror movies on opening night, even if they're really art-house experiments marketed as horror movies.

But seriously: It's exactly an example of a cover version so like the original that there's no point to it--except for the sort of meta point that no one had ever made a remake that uninteresting before. You'll recognize the Martin Gardner reference (http://www.wordsmith.demon.co.uk/paradoxes/#interesting).

[bnewmark.livejournal.com]

just because it seems sort of on topic, i watched "adaptation" the other night, which is based on _the orchid thief_, which i read, and i have to say, i thought it was very creative and unique, given that adapting that book would be... incredibly difficult, to say the least.