"Ms. Sevigny does not own a television and is not overly familiar with the show." Oh, how perfect.

Lili Taylor is a sweet and delicate thing, to be cherished.

This would be cool…
…if any of these people were worth my time ('cept Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill).

I know I'm a bit late here, but I'd just like to say that Bob Dylan is a fantastic singer. And that Jim DeRogatis is a douche bag.

Sorry, "Shadow Play" just got mentioned. The end. Combine that with "The Howling Man" and "Time Enough At Last" and you've got a perfect three episode introduction that'll get just about anyone hooked.

Ray-Man
So does this movie have any interviews with Ray Manzarek slobbing Morrison's knob? "Hey man, I knew Jim Morrison once!" Good lord is that man pathetic—every one of his stories is about how cool Jim Morrison is.

Well, I wasn't speaking to anyone specifically, just the publication in general seems to trend that way. I also wasn't saying that these films were masterpieces that were too far-out for you guys, but rather that Milkman shouldn't avoid them based on a single review.

I don't know, I think the films are still worth checking out. In my observations (and I hope no one takes this the wrong way) the AV Club has always seemed to lean more towards the traditionalist side of things; they usually favor the well-written, plot-driven narrative features in the classical storytelling mode over…

Willis has a better self-reference in the third Die Hard movie. He tells Sam Jackson that lately he's been "working on a nice fat suspension. Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo."

Yeah, Aaron Katz or Andrew Bujalski would be the place to start. (Actually, I don't know if Bujalski counts because he actually shoots on film.) Those two are really the only ones with any visual sense, and the only ones who are not obsessively stuck up their own assholes. Avoid Joe Swanberg at all costs.

Maybe Scorsese could use his help again, too. Lord, how that man needs a worthwhile screenplay these days.

Is this "Masque of the Red Death" the one from the 80s starring Frank Stallone? Was Roger Corman still around by that point?

The Woodman
Apologies to anyone who's already mentioned this, but if we're talking about Woody ALlen, where the hell is "Hannah and Her Sisters." The multiple-character voiceover in that film is absolutely essential in giving it its novelistic feel, and in mapping each major character's internal state, thus…

Eternal Sunshine is very moving if you are a member of the demographic that is perdisposed to find it moving (do I have to say the demographic? We all know who I'm talking about, right?), but if you aren't that type of person, there's not much to hold on to. A film like, for example, There Will Be Blood is better…

Bad Answer Guy, you are the opposite of right. Dialogue heavy stuff is the worst to adapt. Film is (yeah, let's go there) a visual medium. Dialogue and character things are perfect for books, and usually translate poorly to the screen. Why wouldn't fifty zillion pages of landscape, silence, and corpse-raping be…

Re: Peter Travers

Uh, Tom, you seem to be forgetting the fact that she's terrible in most of those movies (and I love just about all of them). The only performances of hers on that that I really enjoy are I'm Not There, which she's barely in, and The Big Lebowski. It seems to me like she should do more comedy. When she does the whole…

FUCKING UNDERWORLD, U.S.A.!
Fuck yes! That movie is fan-fucking-tastic, might just be his best.

Shit yeah, Howling Man fucking rules. I mentioned that one higher up, before I read this. Good to see someone agrees.

Could be the reason so many people here are choking up is 'cause they all fall smack in the fucking middle of this movie's target audience. The studio knows who this thing is for, and it sure ain't kids (they put a goddamned Arcade Fire song in the trailer, for Chrissakes). It's a children's movie for adults in…