There’s a great line in Jules and Jim about fictions that “revel in vice to preach virtue.”
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1990s and early 2000s, and Ebert was in our house on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
Yesterday’s Oscar nominations came with major snubs, but it certainly wasn’t the first time the Academy stuck it to likely contenders.
For many years, I maintained a Top 10 list. It was changing all the time, but by the mid-1980s, I had pretty well nailed it down.
The Comedy is continuously in danger of feeling either too cute or too abrasive.