“Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expan…” — Roger Ebert

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.