now that I have seen every 1999 best picture nominee, I have ranked them: 1. The Insider 2. The Sixth Sense 3. The Green Mile 4. American Beauty 5. The Cider House Rules Two good movies, three awful ones

i have reached 30 movies from 1993. my top 10: 1. dazed and confused 2. jurassic park 3. schindler’s list 4. the age of innocence 5. king of the hill 6. the fugitive 7. sleepless in seattle 8. the wedding banquet 9. the piano 10. naked

would love to live in europe but i cannot STAND the european covers of books. they are AWFUL!!!!!

having a crisis about how much i love ann arbor

SENTIMENTAL VALUE has entered the canon of movies whose trailer makes me cry immediately

EPILOGUE

what are the cool bars and cafes and things in Paris, France

Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips announces he has taken a buyout and the Trib is eliminating his post. Unless I am missing someone I believe this leaves the nation's third-largest city without a single full-time film writing gig.

getting confused

Terence Stamp worked with Fellini, William Wyler, Ken Loach, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steven Soderbergh, John Schlesinger, Joseph Losey, Richard Donner, Peter Brook, Oliver Stone, Richard Lester, Stephen Frears, George Lucas, Frank Oz, Neil Jordan, Ivan Reitman, Tim Burton, Edgar Wright, Michael Cimino

"I’d just turn to him and go, “The best necktie shop?” “Oh, there’s this place in London . . .” I mean, whatever you asked him — the best French restaurant, the best this, the best that — he had an answer immediately."—Steven Soderbergh on Terence Stamp, RIP www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

reached 30 movies from 1982. my top 10: 1. the thing 2. koyaanisqatsi 3. e.t. the extra-terrestrial 4. the king of comedy 5. blade runner 6. tootise 7. poltergeist 8. star trek ii: the wrath of khan 9. diner 10. smithereens

Area Critic (Me) Needs New Job. Reach out if you want me to write for you! Doesn't have to be reviews!

reached 40 movies from 2011. my top 10: 1. moneyball 2. mission: impossible - ghost protocol 3. hugo 4. the girl with the dragon tattoo 5. win win 6. le havre 7. margaret 8. the tree of life 9. bridesmaids 10. haywire

Finally saw Spielberg’s West Side Story. Had wondered if it was necessary. Well, it fucking is. Watched it on a plane and was clownishly singing along and pretending to conduct Bernstein’s score and be a hot Puerto Rican girl. Janusz Kamiński’s best work? Tony Kushner’s script A+. A dream.

music played on today's show: Teen Suicide Ben Hackett Youth Lagoon GOON Stereolab Christian Lee Hutson The Barr Brothers Living Hour Mac DeMarco

This from Stephen Colbert is so wonderful. www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak...

music played in today's show: Loving Blur Kele Nathan Bowles Trio Julia Jacklin Ray Barretto James Blackshaw Blue Lake Alex G The Stone Roses

This won’t fix the gutting of federal funding, but: Go ahead and shoutout a smaller public radio station that has meant something to you & include a donation link. I’ll start: WUOT Knoxville, which reaches up into mountains and was a lifeline for me for a couple years give.utk.edu/campaigns/42...

reached 20 movies from 1962. my top 10: 1 - the man who shot liberty valance 2 - the fabulous baron munchausen 3 - the manchurian candidate 4 - cleo from 5 to 7 5 - what ever happened to baby jane 6 - lawrence of arabia 7 - a taste of honey 8 - la jetee 9 - experiment in terror 10 - cape fear

no one cares but my prediction for the top nyt best of the 21st century movies are: There Will Be Blood Mulholland Dr. In the Mood for Love Parasite Get Out The Wolf of Wall Street

U.S. HOUSE PASSES TRUMP REQUEST TO CUT $9.4 BILLION IN FUNDING FOR FOREIGN AID, PUBLIC BROADCASTING, SENDS MEASURE TO SENATE

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Bub and Pop's, home of the best sandwich I have eaten in DC, is closed.

R.I.P. Enzo Staiola (1939-2025) Pictured on the set of Bicycle Thieves with Vittorio De Sica.

ELMER FUDD: *inside the criterion closet* miwwahs cwossing... twahmendous, just a twahmendous film ah ha ha ha .. here we go.... muwurhvern cawwahl

come on

Reading The Remains of the Day and it is spectacular

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME might pair well with YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU

RIP Valerie Mahaffey. MVP of the recent FRENCH EXIT. The movie doesn't entirely work but she is wonderful in it!

Interview: 'The Perfect Nine,' By Ngugi wa Thiong'o www.npr.org/2020/10/10/9...

RIP Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o While imprisoned without charge in 1977, he made the seminal decision to write only in Gikuyu, expounding the idea that African literature should be written in African languages, and wrote a novel in Gikuyu on government-issued toilet paper. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

Jafar Panahi has won the Golden Lion at Venice (THE CIRCLE), the Golden Bear at Berlin (TAXI), and now the Palme d'Or at Cannes (IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT). He is the fourth director to win top honors at all three festivals, after Clouzot, Antonioni, and Altman.

THE SECRET AGENT getting two awards at Cannes.... everyone watch Kleber Mendonca Filho's crazy movie BACURAU stat!!!!!

The latter is the sign of a moron pretending otherwise, the former might be a serial killer

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BREAKING NEWS: The Supreme Court justices deadlock 4-4, effectively blocking the creation of the nation's first religious charter school in Oklahoma.

wait Zohran Mamdani is filmmaker Mira Nair's son???

seven years at npr today 📻

guess what. there’s a new wednesday song and it’s great