I hope to have a chance to taste these beers someday. Based on my experience it's the Belgians who make the best beer and enjoy drinking the most, with the Czechs and Irish coming second. These beers are not popular here because they are NOT hot weather beers. Back to film, I wonder if I anybody has seen the films of Charles Burnett, a wonderful African-american director who deserves Spike-size fame. This term "maudit" applies to this director well. His films are so assured but so personal, they don't appeal to a large enough demographic so few have seen them. His film The GLASS SHIELD, about a black cop trying to fit in, and TO SLEEP WITH ANGER got some distribution. My favorite Burnett film eh...was made for TV by Hallmark/Disney...yep NIGHTJOHN is a masterpiece, a triumph of commercial mainstream filmmaking. The most honest, most hopeful, most inspired film about slavery and the power of literacy. If we have great holocaust cinema, why can't we have great slavery cinema?
How can a movie this thoughtful, emotionally devastating, tough and engaging, be unknown to most cinephiles?