Lauren, 27, librarian, & like you, obsessed with film. My tendency is to immerse myself in long & obsessive projects to the exclusion of all else, but you'll typically find a lot of classic Hollywood, 60s/70s world cinema, & contemporary awards bait on these pages.

» The Godfather 1972, Francis Ford Coppola
» Avatar 2009, James Cameron
» Days of Heaven 1978, Terrence Malick
» The Young Victoria 2009, Jean-Marc Vallée
» Broken Embraces 2009, Pedro Almodóvar
» Nine 2009, Rob Marshall
» There’s Always Tomorrow 1956, Douglas Sirk
» Thunderbolt 1929, Josef Von Sternberg
» The Love of Sumako the Actress 1947, Kenji Mizoguchi
» Alibi 1929, Roland West

Liveblogging the Globes (6)

• Lauren: I actually liked Basterds a lot. Whole bunches. Maybe even enough to think it’s due some...
• Sean: Avatar was all right but the amount of awards its getting is laughable. Why didn’t you like Basterds?
• Lauren: Better that way. Avatar has nothing to recommend it whatever except being-in-mass-culture. The awards habit...

The Godfather (2)

• Allison Almodovar: Oh I was wondering what #6 was. I think it’s great that you’re working on...
• Shubhajit Lahiri: In my opinion, Godfather isn’t just THIS great, it is even greater than its ranking suggest...

Catching Up With 2009 (4)

• Lauren: Interesting–I seem to go too hard on my favorite directors, if anything. I’m cutting Almodovar no...

TSPDT Top 100 Intro (3)

• Ian: I discovered TSPDT around the same time as YMDB, and both were such a major boost in my education. I think I...
• Lauren: I think, too, that I was distracted away from the canon too soon, and after all I’ve seen outside it...