It's too bad Nausicaa doesn't technically count as a Ghibli film, as it's my absolute favorite Miyazaki.

Balls.

It gets more painful: remember the scene where Arthur goes to the planet that's there in place of Earth (NowWhat, I think)? And gets "attacked" in his hotel room by an ugly creature that's desperately trying to communicate with him via biting? The popular interpretation is that this is yet another incarnation of…

So you're not interested in my script featuring action hero Antonio Killfuck?

But what was David Caruso doing with Hilary Mantel in the first place?

"anything that seems reminiscent of a late-’90s Internet company"

"Wizard People, Dear Reader", a phenomenally funny alternate audio track for the first Harry Potter movie

The bad apple part of the Gormenghast trilogy is not Titus Alone. It's the interminable halting courtship between the two older people in Gormenghast that makes up like a third of the book.

Season 1 Fringe also has a deliberate camp aspect that I loved, and which they pretty much jettisoned in season 2.

Yeah, it's totally worth a "real" Criterion release. Though the Eclipse sets are usually at least nicely cleaned up prints.

"we’re basically going to treat each segment as its own episode"

Hasn't Tony Slattery gone all Syd Barrett or something?

No, it's true. Jack White is secretly Neil Hagerty.

The advice show was actually a rerun from a season or two ago, but it is interesting that they chose to rerun it during this run, as it's kind of an unusual one.

Great to see Wiretap here, too bad it's coming in during an off season where it's been more like an assemblage of This American Life off-cuts than the great show it was before. I get the sense that Goldstein felt it went to far towards being a radio sitcom in the last few years and overcompensated a bit.

Ilike this feature, but you do mention exactly the kind of show I'm more interested in hearing about, those ones that  "hung on as best they could and never posted numbers quite low enough to be canceled". How on earth was Just Shoot Me or Becker on long enough to get syndicated? What do they, you know, mean…

I feel like Twilight of the Ice Nymphs is a little unjustly maligned, maybe especially because Maddin himself is pretty hard on it. There's a lot of great scenes, even if it doesn't hold together or flow particularly well. And the commentary on the DVD got me to read Hamsun's Mysteries. Oh, and it's one of a handful…

Screening schedule on the distributor's site:

Amazon claims the DVD comes out in mid June, which could very well be before a print makes it out here in Michigan, if it's accurate.

There was period of a year or so when I got free copies of every new Criterion release, because I had a friend who was a video buyer for Borders.