Bunuel trained under Epstein, and together they made an amazing adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher. I think Lawson is getting Epstein confused with Jean Renoir, who he's then confusing with the latter's even more famous father, Pierre-Auguste, the impressionist painter.

Bunuel would've made a great Avengers film.

Was it because they CGI'd Yoda, or because they animated him to move like Sonic The Hedgehog? I still don't understand how the puppet Yoda from 1999 was inferior to the 1980 puppet.

So, what Epstein films have you seen? I had only seen House of Usher, read some analysis of his other films, and then read some commentary about working with/for him from interviews with Buñuel. Currently I am only able to locate copies of Coeur Fidéle, The Red Inn, Mauprat, The Three-Sided Mirror and Le Tempestaire. I'd be curious as to your connection as copies of his work are fairly hard to come by.

Apparently there was a documentary made about him last year, entitled Young Oceans of Cinema.

If that were true, I would have enjoyed a lot more Hollywood blockbusters over the last few years.

Then let's see your review of a Godard film.

You never taught me the secret handshake.

Considering that it's only the CGI you seem to have a problem with and nothing else about the scene, that's a pretty good confirmation of Lawson's "All is Allen or else it sucks" theory.

Mike

Well, Allen, what can I tell you? Maybe if you left your suburban AMC Movieplex 18, next-door to the Home Depot and Taco Bell, and ventured into an actual theater to see real cinema ...

Perhaps you'll eventually mature in your tastes and join those of us who view movies more as a sensory milieu and less as a hill to be climbed and mastered.

As Epstein once said, "As it sketched its very first aesthetic differentiations with the spectacles of nature, the cinematograph was choosing between God and Satan, and siding with the latter. Since whatever moves will transform and replace what has proven to be photogenic, photogénie, as a fundamental rule, clearly dedicated the new art to the service of the forces of transgression and revolt."

Oh, tish-tosh, Charles.

Epstein was one-of-a-kind.

So. Lawson. What Epstein films have you seen?