Jim Henley on Spider-Man 2:
We are fortunate that genuine equality is impossible because it would be the social analog of entropy [ . . . ] ‘heat death’ of the social universe.
Technicolor is always fun, and Scaramouche (1952) is a splendid example. Does digital image processing software (such as Photoshop) have filters that try to match the flavor of Technicolor?
Later: Technicolor could not save The Crimson Pirate (also 1952). I abandoned it after about half an hour and two Disneyesque confrontations in which bumbling soldiers are defeated by clowning pirates (led by Burt Lancaster, whose lack of charisma never struck me so strongly before). It didn’t even look like Technicolor; perhaps the DVD transfer sucked the life out.
LanguageHat tells of seeing Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru (1952) for the first time, and provides the words of the song “Life is Short”.
In The Importance of Being Earnest, is Algernon Moncrief meant to resemble Oscar Wilde? In the film of 1952 he does.
Does anyone make a car whose turn-signals expire after (say) a mile?
The question raised itself when, not for the first or tenth time, I politely hung back to let a truck into my lane . . . and found that the driver was oblivious.