April 27th, 2010
I once saw a History Channel special on World War I, Googled WWI movies, Neflixed All Quiet On The Western Front , and shipped it back after three weeks, knowing I couldn’t kid myself into believing I was going to watch it any longer. I sat on Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai for four weeks, shockingly never finding myself in the mood for a 4-hour subtitled film, and finally shipped it back free of wannabe-film-connoisseur guilt when I realized...



