From this weekend's "Adventures with Tivo," Charlie Rose had Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and the Coen brothers on to discuss No Country for Old Men. Worth the time, even though it's, you know, Charlie Rose.

A.O. Scott on Brian DePalma's new movie, "Redacted."

An unrivaled master of showy cinematic technique, he has made a film whose governing conceit is that it is not a film at all but rather a palimpsest of found video culled from consumer-grade camcorders, surveillance cameras, cellphones and Web sites. (There are also snippets from a French documentary, a mischievous parody complete with portentous music and solemn narration.) “Redacted” takes us on a tour not only of the battlefield, but also of the modern media environment, where no moment goes unrecorded and where everyone is, at least potentially, a filmmaker.

I'm not planning on seeing "Redacted" in the theater for a variety of reasons ("I don't get out much and I'd rather spend babysitter money on 'No Country for Old Men'" being the leading contender), but I wish there were  way to experience this tour of "the modern media environment" in that actual environment.

I just saw a television commercial for the upcoming DVD release of Ratatouille that was unabashedly aspected 16:9. It stuck out because most movie commercials (esp for DVD releases) are formatted to fit your 4:3 screen... Of course the different look distracted me from the actual release date, though I'm assuming it'll be out in time for Thanksgiving.

Second order question: will the DVD drive incremental sales of Thomas Keller cookbooks?

Fluxblog on The Darjeeling Limited:

You can't buy the lifestyle Anderson is selling -- you have to be born into it. You can try to talk your way into it, like Max Fischer or Eli Cash, but it won't work out. You can work hard, make a lot of money, and enter a higher tax bracket like Herman Blume or Royal Tenenbaum, but your drive and working class roots will always set you apart from those whose ambitions have been stalled by the inertia of excessive comfort.

I liked Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer a hell of a lot more than I liked Jason Schwartzman in Hotel Chevalier, where he's moping around in a multi-thousand dollar a night Parisian hotel suite for an indeterminate amount of time before Natalie Portman shows up to have sex with him and stare longingly at the view off his balcony. Nice work if you can get it.

"Yes, he’s a replicant. He was always a replicant."

Manohla Dargis' New York Times review of The Bourne Ultimatum has more than a few lines in it that I don't really understand but make me want to see the movie Right Now.

• "This is the passion of Jason Bourne, with a bullet."
• "...the more formally bold Mr. Greengrass shatters movie space like glass..."
• "It’s filmmaking with a rubber hose."
• "They take us inside an enormous train station and a cramped room and then, with whipping cameras and shuddering edits, break that space into bits as another bullet finds its mark, another body hits the ground, and the world falls apart just a little bit more."

OK, that last quote I understand. And seriously, I need to see this Right Now.

Worth watching:  James L. Brooks and Matt Groening on Charlie Rose. (The show's not online as of this posting, but will likely show up soon at that URL.)

I love A.O. Scott's review of The Simspons Movie because he makes absolutely no bones about being an unabashed fan of the series. "Let’s keep things in perspective. 'The Simpsons' is an inexhaustible repository of humor, invention and insight, an achievement without precedent or peer in the history of broadcast television, perhaps the purest distillation of our glories and failings as a nation ever conceived. 'The Simpsons Movie' is, well, a movie."  Worth reading in its entirety.

How come I hadn't heard about 2 Days in Paris?  There really isn't anything better than a Julie Delpy movie set in the city of lights.  Sigh.

Anthony Lane on Judd Apatow:  "On the surface, Apatow’s films are about sex—obsessively, exclusively, and exhaustively. ... But that is a clever feint, for their true subject is age."

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