24 Words Per Film (#37)

Michael Cera hilariously plays himself—again. Despite the sap and teen movie trappings, Nick & Norah’s a fairly delightful love letter to indie rock.

Polish Film Poster of the Moment

This Time: Last Year at Marienbad (1992); artist: Wiktor Sadowski

Ed Says: A later-period poster than most of the stuff I've displayed here, but absolutely as gorgeous and enigmatic as Resnais's film--and it uses my favorite recurring motif of the Polish poster, the obscured human face. Sadowski has mostly done theater and opera posters from what I can tell, but below is another beautiful one, for Ken Loach's Riff-Raff.

24 Words Per Film (#36)

Zellwegger gamely keeps up with director Clooney, who has become a modern master of screwball. And his Leatherheads uses slapstick sparingly, and exceedingly well.