[James Brancheau]

Teaching world literature class the other day, I found myself going on about just how progressively horrible hollywood has become (I won't even cap it, spell-checker be damned). And I love film. Often use movies to illustrate a point, which might crinkle some noses, but it can be helpful in an international class. Anyway, just tonight in an argument about the same, it occurred to me that actually there are some exceptional, relatively young directors in the now and known (and about my age, so maybe this is just me being proud about my generation). I'm thinking of Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, and Spike Jonze (Her floored me). My favorite is the first, but they're all quite good. If you don't want to respond to this, just talk about movies. I'm really wanting for a thread on film.