Do you happen to remember the name of the film or director?

A critic needs to be able to withstand peer pressure.

Yeah. Nobody ever mentions that either probably b/c the two films by one director is a ploy that has been used before, viz Godard or Fassbinder.

Amazing that people remember this Queens-kid's gesture after nearly 40 years--some w disapproval. Interesting that no one ever points out that I hedged my bets by making an 11-Best list with the addition of SOMETHING WILD. Including a film by Clement Klopfenstein was actually a lot weirder.

Of course not. My point is that Vance was parroting a nativist line advanced by the KKK--antisemitic but also at that time anti-Catholic--that would deny all who sought asylum.

How about Send Schumer to Florida

He's actually following the KKK line. Btw, not only Jews but Italians and all East Europeans (not to mention Asians) were banned.

Yes, she lost because (for whatever reason) Democrats stayed home.

Yes, I also took a course w Wollen at Columbia. Thx to Signs & Meaning, it was packed. Most memorably Kathryn Bigelow was in the class & Wollen who struck me as entertaining if supercilious did insist in pronouncing Godard with a short "o," an emphasis on the 2nd syllable and an audible final "d."

www.villagevoice.com/suspiria-sho...
"Suspira, which is being revived around town this week and the next in all of its wide-screen, Technicolor splendor, is a movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .)."

Yes, a scold. When he arrived at his shabby Columbia classroom, he looked around at the motley furnishing & asked if it were a "retirement home for old chairs"--I thought it was a joke & laughed.

There were not many students. I remember that we looked at THE BIRTH OF A NATION and TRIUMPH OF THE WILL as well as THE WAR GAME. Watkins was intense and only grimly humorous. How I wish I saved my class notes!

NYT has run previous pieces on Mamdani's "elite" high-school & (rejected) college application. Waiting for a deep dive into the "indoctrination" Cuomo received at Archbishop Molloy & Fordham or the "training" Trump got at the New York Military Academy. Genug!