Jake Gittes

The Spring Breakers number made my jaw drop. Good job, A24. Damn, I can't wait to see it.

Monumental cinema. Coppola's greatest achievement and probably one of the four or five greatest films I've ever seen. Was in awe from the first minute to the last. Oh, and Vittorio Storaro is a God among cinematographers.

And Foxcatcher and Captain Phillips. Have TSN and ZDT both motivated them to become a major Oscar player? I wouldn't be surprised.

A couple of minutes out of those Butch/Fabienne scenes in Pulp Fiction before he discovers the watch is missing. I understand - and like a lot - the way it surprises the viewer that a classic tough guy like Butch has a girlfriend like *that*, but I think the point could have been made just as well in a shorter amount of time.

I'm still waiting for Black Dynamite 2.

I remember how I first saw Cotillard in the original Taxi movies - very popular in France and parts of Europe, I believe, all produced by Luc Besson. The first one was released in 1998 and Cotillard must have been 22 when she shot it, and guess what, she had a full frontal nude scene within, like, the opening 10 minutes. That was my, uh, introduction to her talents... I remember some years had passed after Taxi 3 (2003) and then I was shocked to see her win an Oscar for La vie en rose, and no less shocked when I saw her actual performance - I never suspected she was such a talented actress in addition to being a very cute one. But it was a pleasant shock, and it was (and remains) pretty neat to witness this next, post-Besson stage of her career. Actually, originally I just wanted to say she was (and is) drop-dead gorgeous, but I got kinda carried away by the memories. Sorry. Her and Eva Green might just be the two most beautiful actresses working today.

People still being upset over his comments would be a thousand times more stupid than the comments themselves ever were.

I think I read somewhere that Behind the Candelabra is definitely in, but I don't know whether in or out of main competition.

I'm gonna guess Only God Forgives (Refn), Lowlife (James Gray) and Inside Llewyn Davis (the Coens) will be there. Fruitvale is also likely, but maybe not in the main competition, if it follows Beasts' footsteps.

I have yet to see Kiss of Death and Mutiny on the Bounty, but absolutely kicking myself over forgetting Amon Goeth. He absolutely has to be one of the scariest, ugliest and most despicable villains in cinema.

Oh, and I might be one of the few people with this strong a reaction, but how about The Caller (Pat Healy) in Compliance. I wanted to make the motherfucker suffer horribly and for as long as humanly possible. Most despicable villain of last year far as I'm concerned.

Noah Cross (John Huston) in Chinatown - one of the greatest, most corrupted, most powerful and most realistic villains ever while appearing only in three scenes. "What can you buy that you can't already afford?" - "The future, Mr. Gitts, the future!" John Doe (Spacey) in Se7en - "DETECTIVE" & the final scene Keyser Soze (Spacey) in The Usual Suspects - one of the most fascinating villains, I think, in any piece of fiction, not despite, but largely because of how much about him we can't know for certain Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in The Matrix - "you are the disease of this planet, and we... are the cure" Frank (Henry Fonda) in Once Upon a Time in the West (his introduction) Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer) in Gaslight - one of the most compelling manipulative bastards in all cinema Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) in Blue Velvet - just watch the movie all right

I thought Hanna was far and away his best work.

Get Joe Wright on this shit. Bond could use himself some single-take fight scenes and a Chemical Brothers score. Ok, maybe the latter is too good to be true, but still.

It probably is in retrospective, but it felt like the moment when the movie's awfulness really gets right in your face and you just can't ignore it any longer. 3 years later I probably remember it better than anything else in the movie, which is ironic because it's the first thing I wanted to forget after I came out of the showing.

Atrocious. Before I saw it I'd thought Burton and Carroll would be a match made in heaven... they might still be, or have been once, but in any case, this movie could not be any further away from supporting that view. When Depp started dancing it was one of those rare moments when I actually felt ashamed of sitting in the theater, "cringe-worthy" doesn't do it justice.

Dunno about Book of Eli, but I thought Kunis gave a great, very natural performance later the same year in Black Swan and got her next immediate gigs in large part on the strength of that.

Finally, I'm not the only one!

Yeah I don't think it'll be much of a battle. Last summer we had two movies cross $1 billion together, this year we'll be lucky to have two (IM3 and ST2) make $750m combined. Granted, F6, MU, DM2 and MoS all have $250m potential - last year, only TASM2 crossed the mark - but it remains to be seen if they will live up to it. I also don't think there'll be a Ted-sized comedy hit.

Just saw Gaslight (the 1944 George Cukor one) and Ingrid Bergman is absolutely fantastic in it. A 100% deserved Oscar.

For my money, Pixar's greatest achievement and one of my favorite films of all time.

Thought Vinessa Shaw's character was fairly pointless and annoying, but otherwise dug the hell out of this movie. A great homage to Hitchcock and film noir filtered through Soderbergh's coldly beautiful aesthetic. It's also exceptional in terms of handling so many characters and subplots and going from what seems to be a character/psychological drama to a full-blown sly, twisty, almost sleazy (the lesbian subplot - immediately reminded me of Wild Things) thriller while commenting on the drug industry at the same time. It's all done with outstanding, seemingly effortless finesse. Mara continues to establish herself as one of the better young actresses and Law reminds everyone once again what a strong actor he is. Excellent movie.

Biggest facepalm ever.

Anything can happen, I agree. And history has given us a great precedent here, in which Katharine Hepburn won her second and third Oscars two years in a row, 30+ years after her first one, and 13 years before her fourth one. But just because anything can happen doesn't mean that it will.