and mine is The Virgin Spring, which I believe most film scholars (including Bergman himself) consider to be his biggest clunker. So take that into consideration when I share my dubious opinion!

Okay, redact Persona (which I in fact adore) and pretend I said The Double Life of Veronique. 

And Your Bad Self — I first discovered him when this video showed up on YouTube and I was forever smitten, because this is TOTALLY ME at work:

I have not! I didn’t know Domhnall was in it. Thanks for the tip!

For a split second I was going to reply “No no they are Brendan Gleeson’s sons!’ I take my fan-girling very seriously. But yes! Ed Harris is amazing and no, I don’t really want to see this, it sounds like a chore. And I say this as someone who sat through Bergman’s Persona more than once. I had more stamina, I was an…

I have to see it because I understand the Gleeson brothers make an appearance and beat each other up in it, and I love those red-headed bastards. But it doesn’t mean I have to like it.

My apologies — As I said elsewhere, I just don’t like Roald Dahl so I made a flippant comment about him. Don’t pay any attention to me.

I really appreciate your sharing this perspective. I just have a thing against Roald Dahl, so whenever I can take a shot at him, I do (I simply don’t like him despite liking many of his books very much— he was a particular kind of self-satisfied, womanizing jerk whose money, charm, talent and connections gave him a…

I have never heard of Serge Lutens, but you aren’t wrong about Way Bandy! Styling Your Face was huuuuuuge in the 80s, and I spent many after-school hours at the library poring over it.

I dated a guy twenty some years ago who told me that when he had to poop at work he snuck into the custodian’s office and used some weird secret mystery toilet in the back of one of the custodial closets rather than ever have to poop in a shared restroom. So yeah, guys do this too.

I worked for a while in a college town pre-Google and every semester education majors would come into the room in search of European and non-European folktales -- and the most common question was ‘Which of these places is in Europe?’ I was asked this about stories from Japan, Sweden, Sierra Leone, AND ALASKA among…

That is some top quality crazy right there!

EXACTLY! “Hmm, I think we had better start by looking at the criminal code. Are there any provisions that would keep you from going to prison for killing someone you suspect... oh sorry, yes, you STRONGLY BELIEVE to be a vampire? Why I am afraid that killing vampires is not exempted from prosecution. Would you like me…

Remind you to tell you about the patron who asked for a book on how to kill vampires because his neighbor was a vampire.

Here to share the underrepresented opinions of white people with liberal arts backgrounds online #sobraveofme

This is an odd comment, if you don’t mind my saying so. I recognize it must have been horribly traumatic to render aid to this shooting victim, and perhaps that is where you are speaking from. Still, I can google [laundromat shooting] and get over a million hits, and a dear friend of mine was shot when he was standing…

Look, he is just trying to help you, you are doing it wrong.

Why yes, the fact that bodega customers living in food deserts in The Bronx often make poor shopping choices absolutely proves that the bodega itself is the marker of an unhealthy community. Also, correlation is causation!

The book is just so very obviously super British. But people seem to feel very strongly about this, so whatevs.

It is interesting to note that when my 8th grader and her girls get soda after middle school they are doing something that terrifies you.