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American Graffiti is a stalwart in the coming-of-age genre, setting a format that would serve the genre well for many years to come. We meet a small group of young people and follow them for a short period of time that nevertheless changes who they are, forever. Some of them go on to bigger things, some don’t. The film follows several teenagers on a single night in Modesto, CA, in the early 1960s, before Viet Nam, before…well, before everything. They still believe that their futures are bright and shining and ahead of them. For some of them, those futures are. Anyhow,Down the rabbit hole….

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Time for a new regular feature that I can sporadically forget to post, huzzah! King Henry II has his sons — Richard, Geoffrey, and John — locked in a cellar. They believe they are to be executed. They hear a door open and someone enter the cellar: RICHARD: He is here. [beat] He’ll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn’t going to see me beg. GEOFFREY: Why you chivalric fool, as if the way one fell down mattered. RICHARD: When the fall is all there is, it matters. Fine, fine movie, with some of the richest dialogue I’ve everDown the rabbit hole….