If you ever want to make some mildly depraved small-talk with someone, ask them if they can think of examples in films wherein a woman genuinely "has it coming."

"Do you wanna be in me film? There's a Handycam set up behind the shuttered folding door of the closet in your dad's spare bedroom. That's the only way to make a film!"

Yeah, man. Eventually maybe I'll add this to the rotation of my stoner film fest, alongside films like "Fantasia," "Fantastic Planet," and, of course, "Baraka."

She is just continuing the rich tradition of proud black actors like the great Sir Lancelot.

I just wish Latifah would come out of the closet already and play more muscle-car-driving, strap-on-packing bull dykes, like she somehow did so convincingly in "Set It Off."

"a nice week's vacation"?
Surely you know that critics attending film festivals are supposed to describe them as all work and no play, an arduous chore without a moment of actual enjoyment.

If by "collaborate," you mean only using one of the two hotel rooms booked for any given part of your press tour, and trying to find ways to make a 19-year-old girl exclaim words she doesn't know the English for (what's the Czech equivalent of "Aye, papi"?), then, yeah, they're "collaborators."

Someone should …
create a video mash-up of this interview edited together with Mel Gibson talking about being a Christian. Watching it would probably cause your brain to bleed out of your nose.

Yeah, since "rootless Hungarian" are the first two words of Criterion's synopsis of the film — the first two words printed on the back of the DVD case — I would have thought that somebody at the A.V. Club would have caught that, or at least corrected it by now in the article. Maybe it's further proof that the A.V.…

I'm considering Christmas Lynch Mob as a name for my band.

Somehow I missed the previous LUV-HAT comment — sorry, SomeGuyIKnowAtWork.

Has anybody mentioned Sideshow Bob's prison tattoos on his three-fingered hands? LUV and HAT, with a line over the "A" to indicate the long vowel sound. (And, while not "Night of the Hunter" related, let's not forget "The Bart, The.")

It's not that big a deal — this isn't really a film I'm absolutely dying to see in a theater. The crux of my comment was about the movie being a visceral cinematic trip into the leaden suit of armor that was Bauby's paralyzed body, compared to the self-evident accomplishment of the book, in which the fact of his…

I understand why many people might have no patience for a film like "Ordet." It is, indeed, static and plodding — but deliberately so, like most Hitchcock films, building up to something. In the case of "Ordet," however, that "something" could be interpreted as miraculous or ridiculous, depending on the viewer.

That "hard, hard times" line reading gets me every time too — and it's right before she impressively shoulders that big-ass honkin' shotgun. And that comment about Ms. Cooper and Atticus Finch is one of the best I've read in a while — very good.

Thanks for the "Quest" clip
That's a cool little short. Add it to the Hugga Bunch clip and a big, fat joint, and you've got a very stonerific viewing experience here.

A Trip Inside Bauby's Skin
I'm eager to both read the book and see the film. Any movie I see in a theater, however, is with my wife, who is extraordinarily claustrophobic (a couple of years ago, she nearly had a panic attack when we saw the cave-confined horror movie "The Descent" ). She has, in all seriousness,…

Ordet
A few years ago, after becoming a Dreyer disciple as a typical reaction to "The Passion of Joan of Arc," I developed an obsessive interest in "Ordet," since I had read that it was a shattering masterpiece and yet was unable to see the film, because no video-rental stores or libraries where I live had copies of…

"Night of the Hunter" climax
I'm curious about others' opinions about the climax of the standoff between Gish and Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter." The whole "I'll be back — when it's dark!" sequence is one of the best things put on film, in a movie full of incredible sequences: the battle of wills converging…

I can definitely identify with morning glory's concerns. I don't own a high-def player, so the only DVDs I've been buying for now are ones I can't get on HD anyhow, like Criterion discs, whose supplementary material is usually worth the purchase apart from the resolution of the actual movie. And it's true that most…