Abel Ferrara Should Have Had the Chance to Direct Jason Miller
His Favorite Pastime by George Nichols, 1914:
Gently! gently! remove Fatty's hand from your pint / One man buys another a shot and then he lamps him / Every American film made before 1918 could be titled Histoire de Scranton / Same old same old twenty minutes' a whole Poconos when you're drunk
"For [so-and-so, in dedication]" (exception: the Histoire(s) du cinéma, which invented the practice in cinemaville)
"from the likes of Pauline Kael"
"fun"
"gaily caparisoned"
"goofy charm"
"heart-rending climax"
"heart-rending final scene"
"heart-rending final sequence"
"heterosexual love"
"homosexual love"
"I found myself unprepared for the emotional wallop"
"in the history of the cinema"
"invigorating"
"is to be commended for"
"jansenist"
"lively"
"Love it or hate it, ... "
"my star-clotted majesty"
"one of the most beloved"
"played by the incomparable [so-and-so]"
"playfully"
"political"
"powerfully affecting"
"reading of the film"
"rich array"
"staggering beauty"
"staggeringly beautiful"
"strikingly bereft"
"that would change cinema forever"
"that would change the movies forever"
"the greatest ____________ of his/her generation"
"there's nothing else like it" (also: "there's absolutely nothing else like it")
"tissue of lies"
"titular [anything]"
"two or three things"
"unforgettable"
"Unfortunately, compared with Rohmer's earlier work, in particular the series known as 'Six Moral Tales,' The Romance of Astrea and Celadon has little to say about eros that's still relevant. It's a film so embarrassingly quaint it's crying out for a parody called Not Another Medieval Movie."
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