Favorite films

Pinned reviews

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  Napoleon 1927

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 02 May 2023

  How Would Lubitsch Do It S2E06.5 - Napoléon vu par Abel Gance [1927] with Paul Cuff

  • Surprise! Paul Cuff returns to discuss something completely different: Abel Gance’s 1927 epic NAPOLEON! We discuss our shared love of the film, our first experiences watching it, Abel Gance’s subsequent career, and the history of the film’s restoration.

  • In other news: we've started a Discord for our podcast, and for discussions of film form in general. If you're interested in such a thing, send a note via this form.

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  To Be or Not to Be 1942

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 05 Dec 2022

  • First off: yes, I did indeed rewatch this with the purpose of logging it here so I can announce...

  • How Would Lubitsch Do It Season 1 Episode 0 - A History of Modern Germany with Lauren Faulkner Rossi.

  • I'm embarking on a new podcast about the works of Ernst Lubitsch! It'll cover all of his extant films, and a few of his lost films!

  • And our premiere is today! We've got Simon Fraser University assistant professor…

Recent reviews

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  Little Red Riding Rabbit 1944

  ★★★★ Watched 03 Jun 2023

  I think the Private Snafu shorts might have further unlocked Freleng for me because this was terrific.

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  Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century 1953

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 03 Jun 2023

  I always seem to forget that this is all one big MAD satire.

  (Seen at the David Geffen Theatre at the Academy Museum; incredible space.)

Popular reviews

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  The Offer 2022

  ★ Watched 17 Jun 2022 4

  OPENING CREDITS:

  Based on Albert S. Ruddy's experience of making the Godfather.

  
  
  

  • One of the most unfocused, hagiographic, self-indulgent pieces of cinematic autofellatio I've ever seen. It's 600* minutes of unmitigated accidental cringe comedy. Five stars.

  • There's just straight-up too much to talk about here. I don't even know where to begin.

  • Matthew Goode's work as Robert Evans is actively fucking great. Maybe I'm overrating him here because he's thrown into relief against the catastrophic incompetence that…

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  All Quiet on the Western Front 2022

  ★★ Watched 28 Jan 2023 7

  He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.

  • I try my damndest not to…