The French Connection has kept itself in the classic-films discussion for the better part of five decades based on a single car chase.

A hooker with a heart of poppies.

Eddie Martin’s portrait of Aussie skate champs Ben and Tas Pappas, All This Mayhem, is edited well enough that it takes a while to realize how little it’s telling you.

I know poppy-fu.

That’s goddamn right.

Reader Mike counts us down.

Beautiful Darling has a sweet nostalgic sadness to it, like its subject, the former James Slattery who became a Warhol-Factory “Superstar.”

“No, not that one, Nana; the other one, with Sherlock.”

I would tell you that we’ve now reached the point in 31 Films In 31 Days when we pick our movies based on how short they are…

Most contemporary reviews of Croupier point to Clive Owen as the best — almost the only — thing about it, and he’s marvelous, but I disagree.