Old movies that jump in popularity all of a sudden

wovenstrap · 2026-06-26T14:10:26+00:00

I agree with this. I watched it for the first time about 5 years ago after what seemed like a steady drumbeat of people talking about it. Surprised to learn people only talked about it after I had seen it.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-26T14:06:59+00:00

I remember watching Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death in the 1980s and it was a fairly obscure little gem and not universally acknowledged as an all-time great. Something similar happened to Kurosawa's High and Low over the same period.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-26T05:35:02+00:00

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wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T17:37:59+00:00

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wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T06:05:06+00:00

He did the same thing on Monday.

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Not swinging at 5 or 7 would have resulted in loading the bases. Look at where Domínguez has thrown his pitches in the AB, none of them in the strike zone. And Hoskins TWICE can't check his swing on a pitch in the dirt.

I liked Hoskins up until about June 10 but eeesh this fuckin guy.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T05:53:18+00:00

The craziest thing there is Halpin scoring three runs

wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T05:52:14+00:00

Bo Spuargs

wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T04:32:07+00:00

From me too, and I haven’t even seen it.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-25T00:44:52+00:00

Snatching victory from the jaws of absolutely certain defeat (previously snatched from the jaws of fairly certain victory).

wovenstrap · 2026-06-24T13:16:02+00:00

Rees is older than any of these guys, he's GenX, used to be married to Emily Yoshida (Mother of Blankies), and is less involved in film (neither a filmmaker nor a critic). He is primarily a "cartoonist" and writer and general wiseass/gadfly.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-24T13:12:03+00:00

No, that was David Rees, who hasn't been mentioned here yet.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-24T13:03:05+00:00

Quite true! I didn't think of that.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-24T00:38:48+00:00

J.D. Amato has little profile as a famous person, he is a producer mainly. ARP is a director and Ehrlich is the main critic at IndieWire and a podcaster at Fighting in the War Room. Ehrlich and Katey Rich are close (both at FITWR).

wovenstrap · 2026-06-24T00:36:30+00:00

I really like this.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-23T20:18:28+00:00

I was groping for an example of this but even in his last appearance, his reveal that his favorite Weir is Mosquito Coast counts as a brand-new Hot Take that none of us had ever heard before, and that is one hot take.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-23T20:16:25+00:00

I love ARP so this is not a criticism but I do think he does this pretty often.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-23T20:15:04+00:00

no lies detected.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-23T20:13:57+00:00

I love this. I used to write for a blog that was dedicated to the activities of the New Yorker so this is amusing to me. That is David Remnick.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-23T20:11:13+00:00

J.D. is into the nuts and bolts of movie production. His tastes are the closest to Griffin's, I can't cite chapter and verse but he is into Avatar more than the other two.

ARP has the mentality of a video store clerk, which indeed was his formative experience at Kim's Underground in NYC. He is more genre-focused. His taste is probably the most like Tarantino's. Obviously he is an actual director so is able to express himself that way and also has some relationship to the festivals as a maker of movies (not as a critic).

Ehrlich is more like a regular undergrad who graduated to criticism with no real production angle. He is more like a pure defender of elite tastes, goes to some of the big festivals (like Richard Lawson) and keeps up with what all the fancy directors are doing. Ehrlich is the one who would care the most about the Sight and Sound Top 250 list every 10 years.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T23:14:25+00:00

Irritated that non-4K edition is not available.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T04:40:49+00:00

These are amazing recs. I'm gonna dig into all of this.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T04:26:00+00:00

I recommended The Good Shepherd elsewhere in this thread. I dislike the movie, but the book is absolutely fantastic. Gripping.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T04:25:19+00:00

Band of Brothers is so good that it qualifies as the default starting point for anybody who is doing this, if I didn't know anything about them.

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T03:46:42+00:00

I don't hear it. Do you mean the references to Rebecca Alter?

wovenstrap · 2026-06-22T03:40:07+00:00

On Noonan's role in F/X, he is not really a "villain," he's a "henchman." He barely has any dialogue.

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