I think only two of Biden's shootings should count. The third guy was behind the second guy.

He was exactly a friend of mine in high school, which makes watching this movie incredibly eerie for me. I could essentially assign alternate names to all the characters, including McConaughey.

I think it's more likely they'll just get on stage together and deliquesce.

Or in other words, Quantum Leap.

Well, that's the way it is.

Oh god yes. If you're wailing properly, you really can't help it.

Lou Reed was my high school teacher. We sure didn't learn a lot about calculus.

Zelda was freaking terrifying.

The kiss in the 1956 movie is one of the most chilling moments I've seen in anything. It makes my skin crawl every time.

The General will always be my first love, because it's the first one I saw, and the way the gags are worked out… I mean it's brilliant, it's mathematics made physical.

I've seen that one! It's pretty nutso— Fairbanks is just snorfling up the coke and quivering like a banshee. It's probably on YouTube somewhere, so give it a search. There's some fantastically odd silents out there and on on the Internet Archive worth hunting through.

I feel like the where-to-starts are always going to be pretty familiar titles: City Lights, Sherlock Jr., Nosferatu, Sunrise, Metropolis, The Phantom of the Opera, etc. etc. I'd love to see a really in-depth piece on less-familiar titles, just so people new to silents can get an idea of the range that's out there.

Supposedly that was Keaton's favorite of his own, although as Pauline Kael pointed out it was likely no one else's.

I loved the first twenty minutes of that movie. Then it all went downhill. But the whole bit with Robert Preston was magic.

This is the first thing I've read that's made me want to watch Rob Zombie's movies. For some reason the fact that he remade Halloween made me assume he wasn't worth looking into, but any filmmaker who has a love of silents I can feel OK with.

I'll add my voice to the chorus here: The Witchfinder General is Price's finest performance and one of the most brutally harrowing movies in British horror. I was genuinely surprised by the dismissal in the review— it's garnered a pretty solid critical consensus over the years. But to each their own I suppose…

"…or plastic sheeting."

You're pretty much correct. Director Herschell Gordon Lewis:

Two underappreciated favorites of mine are "Martin's Close" and "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance", the latter if only for that terrifying Punch dream.

My favorite VU song will probably always be "All Tomorrow's Parties", for its gorgeous weird austerity.