In the swim

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• The First Bill C says:

  July 18, 2009 at 11:11 am

  Pretty sure you mean THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE there, Glenn. Though THE TROUBLE WITH CHARLIE is more fit­ting to be sure.

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• Glenn Kenny says:

  July 18, 2009 at 11:47 am

  Oops!

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• Brian says:

  July 18, 2009 at 11:57 am

  I’m pretty sure that Belle and Sebastian’s best album is _Dear Catastrophe Waitress_ from 2003. But _The Boy with the Arap Strap_ is also pretty fuck­ing great, so no mat­ter how stu­pid _500 Days of Summer_ turns out to be, or whatever the pres­ence of this record is meant to do, you can­’t fault the choice on aes­thet­ic grounds.
  Thanks for bring­ing the com­edy week after week.

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• Allen Belz says:

  July 18, 2009 at 12:11 pm

  Agreed on the thanks. And I’m an “If You’re Feeling Sinister” feller, myself.

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• partisan says:

  July 19, 2009 at 4:16 am

  Yes, I noticed the One Line Review of the top 50 films. Andrew O’Hehir at Salon was some­what struck by the lim­ited num­ber of for­eign films. But what I thought was strik­ing was how close the list was to theyshootpictures.com top 1000 movies. Of the top 50, 47 are in TSP.com top 100 or have been in the past. The three excep­tions (Pulp Fiction [20], Do the Right Thing [48] and The Good, Bad and The Ugly [49] are either in the next hun­dred, or in the high 200s. I don’t find Faust’s low pos­i­tion par­tic­u­larly sur­pris­ing: Five votes mean your movie is in the 400s, and it cur­rently is 387 on TSP.com
  And in oth­er news, John Podhoretz deems Manhattan “evil”: http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/752ndooj.asp I’m not sure what to say about this. Oh wait, yes I do: “And you thought ‘Anything Else’ was bad.”

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• Glenn Kenny says:

  July 19, 2009 at 10:30 am

  Wow, for a minute I thought J‑Pod was gonna be pro­noun­cing on the bor­ough itself. Then why do you still live here, dummy?
  But he is instead pon­ti­fic­at­ing on the Woody Allen film, and he is again full of shit—there was “not a peep” about the age-inappropriate Ike-Tracy rela­tion­ship, says J‑Pod; he must have missed the multi-columnist debate over that exact sub­ject in the Village Voice a few weeks into the film’s run. Of course, I ima­gine that Midge and Norm for­bid their child from ever bring­ing such filth in the house.

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• lichman says:

  July 22, 2009 at 1:43 am

  to be fair, if i have pan­cakes with her, i’ll send you the documentary.

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