I only saw it once, at a festival of French films in the mid-90s, but I walked out of the theatrical cut of Assayas' Cold Water convinced it was one of the best films I'd ever seen—certainly the most interesting about adolescence.  I'd guess that it hasn't made an appearance on US (or UK from what I can tell) video…

Leslie Gore.  "It's My Party".  Poppy and melodic as hell but not really very fun.  A girl has a party and her boyfriend disappears with some skank (for a while…do to something… unmentionable).  And when they come back she's wearing his ring!  YOU WOULD CRY TOO.

Leslie Gore.  "It's My Party".  Poppy and melodic as hell but not really very fun.  A girl has a party and her boyfriend disappears with some skank (for a while…do to something… unmentionable).  And when they come back she's wearing his ring!  YOU WOULD CRY TOO.

Outkast's "Hey Ya" is one of the best, peppiest songs of the last decade.  It's also the story of a disintegrating relationship: "So why you why you why you/ why are you so in denial/ when we're not happy here".  One great line about a Polaroid picture is what people remember, but "Thank God for Mom and Dad for…

Outkast's "Hey Ya" is one of the best, peppiest songs of the last decade.  It's also the story of a disintegrating relationship: "So why you why you why you/ why are you so in denial/ when we're not happy here".  One great line about a Polaroid picture is what people remember, but "Thank God for Mom and Dad for…

That's a great song!  Check out Kiki & Herb's version (from their live album).

That's a great song!  Check out Kiki & Herb's version (from their live album).

Jason Heller is right.  Metal Machine Music is gorgeous, though that's probably not what Lester Bangs was thinking when he called it the greatest album of all time.

a great (if approximate) quote from Jonathan Rosenbaum: "Taxi Driver is about two of Schrader's biggest obsessions—Bresson and his gun collection." Snide and shorthanded but, still, there's a lot of Country Priest in Scorsese's film—the compulsive diary-making, the complaints of sickness and the liquor Travis uses to…