Glad to see Nick Schrager can use "languorous" in a sentence. And does. In two consecutive 'Watch This' posts.

according to Glenn Kenny (who I'm inclined to trust), at a super-early screening of Tenenbaums, the end title music was an 'Anthology' version of The Beatles' "I'm Looking Through You." http://somecamerunning.type…

The real dark horse gem on UNTITLED is "Exit." http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Oh ho! Fast is discussed at some length in the first chapter of I MARRIED A COMMUNIST. Thanks for the recommendation!

Saw a screening of a restoration of D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE - super thrilling stuff. It's kind of mind-blowing/inspiring to consider that this thing is NINETY-SEVEN FUCKING YEARS OLD. I also thought the new score by Carl Davis was pretty stirring and effective without overpowering the images.

"Chopin’s nocturnes, which make excellent focus music for reading, studying, and writing."

Great review, Mr. Vishnevetsky.

I still kick myself for missing the chance to see a restored 35mm print of "Black Narcissus" on the big screen last year. A beautiful thing, indeed.

Great pick, y'all. Of course I say that without haven't actually seen this movie (yet!) but I'm always happy to see people talking about Pressburger and Powell. I think 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' deserves to be on a very short list of the greatest movies ever made. And 'The Red Shoes,' 'Tales of Hoffman,'…

Yeah, I read that Beaujolais played on that track right after I wrote that comment so, whoops. I would still argue that song isn't necessarily the purest Cajun music out there, not that I enjoy it any less because of it.

One of my earliest memories is of seeing Mary Chapin Carpenter with my aunt Keri at Six Flags Over Texas, probably around 1991-2. My four-year-old mind was really blown by seeing a live person sing the songs I had heard on car radios and cassette players, like I hadn't even known that was possible before. Great…

I am aware that it's basically an indefensible position and I'm not even sure how much I really agree with it when I think about it, but I guess the point is that I think 'Tusk' is really, really fucking insane/singular/great and doesn't really sound like anything else in the classic rock canon, either before or after…

Oy vey. Thanks for the heads up!

'Tusk' is my pick for the best rock album ever made. I highly recommend Stephen Holden's Rolling Stone review from 1979 -http://www.rollingstone.com… - it really eloquently articulates that magic of Fleetwood Mac's golden period.

Oh man, I hear ya. I've had my eye on Travels in Siberia since I read an excerpt of it in The New Yorker a few years back. I keep telling myself to just need to set aside some time for that behemoth.

also for any Siberia junkies (what the fuck am I even saying) out there, I recommend John Vaillant's recent nonfiction book 'The Tiger,' a great account of a man-eating tiger out in the far east of Siberia. Super tyte stuff.

Very, very excited for this. Herzog's been making bomb documentaries since before I was born but I feel like he's really been killin it lately. "Into The Abyss" was an incredible experience (I think it would work great on a double bill with Linklater's "Bernie" - two films, one comic and one tragic - with a lot to say…

Woulda been even "funnier" if you'd spelled Scharpling right.

I read David Boring when I was about fourteen, soon after I'd had my mind blown by the Ghost World movie, and it has haunted me ever since. Definitely the strangest book I ever checked out of the public library in my podunk west Texas town. Like A Velvet Glove is great, too.

I read David Boring when I was about fourteen, soon after I'd had my mind blown by the Ghost World movie, and it has haunted me ever since. Definitely the strangest book I ever checked out of the public library in my podunk west Texas town. Like A Velvet Glove is great, too.