As Nick Cage said, I Live in Fear is a prime example of Mifune working against type. Mifune plays an older man in contemporary Japan who is obsessively fearful of a nuclear disaster. The movie and Mifune are both awesome.

I was curious which song they were referencing, and I thought I heard Drew playing "Both Sides Now", which seemed like a great bone zone selection. But then I looked it up and Both Sides Now is track 10 on the Clouds album.

I don't want to bad mouth the kid, but he's a horrible, dishonest, immoral louse. And I say that with all due respect.

Crimes and Misdemeanors shook me up quite a bit when I was in college. I already felt that God was dead, but I didn't know you could make great entertainment out of the subject.

Interiors and Another Woman are legitimately great films, I think they'd get a lot more attention if the filmmaker wasn't so well known for a very different kind of movie. My pick for the most underrated Woody movie is Shadows and Fog.

mailboxes drip like lampposts 
in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
O’ say can you see ’em

Agreed, there's some awesome comedic value to The Boxer.

I like Days of '49 too, there's also a nice version of Gotta Travel On. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the only officially released version of The Mighty Quinn. I also like the Woogie Boogie jam. Even so, that's just 4 decent songs out of 24 tracks.

They dressed Hulu up to look like Netflix, but the inner circle can see the distinctive marks.

I have to give Red Beard another shot. I found it cold and a bit slow the first time around.

Dersu Uzala is kind of awesome, I'm not sure if Criterion got around to that one yet. But I agree with the picks here. Ikiru, Ran, High and Low, Throne of Blood, Yojimbo and Sanjuru. These are all masterpieces.

I agree with Craig that all Kurosawas are worth a viewing, but those are 3 of my least favorite Kurosawas. They all have moments of great beauty.

I found Ikiru a bit boring the first time I saw it. But after multiple viewings, it's now one of my all-time favorites.

My favorite that most people haven't seen is I Live in Fear. It's my favorite non-samurai performance by Mifune.

I enjoyed The Facts and I'm sure you would too, but it's really aimed at the initiated. Patrimony is just killer. I don't want to meet the cold-hearted bastard who is unmoved by Patrimony.

The Facts also discusses the relationship between his real life marriage and the stories in 'My Life as a Man' and 'When She Was Good'.

He does give a lot of details on his first marriage in 'The Facts'. I don't know if he's really sticking to the facts there, but he calls it an autobiography. Then again, he opens and closes the book with a letter from Zuckerman to Roth. Either way, it's a hell of a book.

Nobody's called him Digger in years.

I'm reading 'Starting Out in the Evening' by Brian Morton. It's an absolute page turner for a fine and subtle character study. I'm just flying through it, and I'm thinking some of his observations are brilliant and some of them are just silly.

Infinite Jest was my first exposure to DFW, and I also got stuck around 200 pages in. I've since discovered that I love his nonfiction and I'm lukewarm on his fiction. But any perceived shortcomings in his work is probably due to my insect size brain. That dude was bright.