Oh Showgirl'd, the infamous Verhoeven picture featuring Ashton Kutcher and Elizabeth Berkley pranking sleazy Kyle MacLachlan repeatedly. It looks like an expose to show bitchy ladies with ta-tas, but turns out to be a misunderstood expose of the whole prank show industry.

Oh Showgirl'd, the infamous Verhoeven picture featuring Ashton Kutcher and Elizabeth Berkley pranking sleazy Kyle MacLachlan repeatedly. It looks like an expose to show bitchy ladies with ta-tas, but turns out to be a misunderstood expose of the whole prank show industry.

Dance Hall at Louse Point is fantastic (and remains my favorite recording she has made), but I can't see it as a very good gateway. It does cover a lot of her different styles, but in a really idiosyncratic way, even for her.

I absolutely agree about the column. If you like this sort of thing, I heartily recommend Jean-Pierre Gorin's musings on the first few minutes of Pierrot le fou (on the second disk of the Criterion release). Plus, it's Pierrot le fou, which everyone should be watching all of the time anyway.

It's just Vertigo done as if Elster and Scottie were the same person. He kills Madeline and then retreats into a wish-fulfilling fantasy that breaks down at the end of the movie. With some Rammstein thrown in.
Now that I type this out, it sounds totally ridiculous. Particularly that Rammstein bit.

I prefer to think that the world has been modernized to keep up with Videodrome. Any further modernization will only lead to evil.

Gregg Araki already made a kick the can movie; it's called Nowhere.

Thanks Hoodwink. Your comment just made this inane shitstorm worth reading after all.

I'm starting to think there is no mole planting messages for Ballard, and that Dollhouse is just using the messages to send him further into his paranoid la-la land. Otherwise, this mole would be better off sending him actual information rather than cryptic messages and revelations that (even if true, like this one…

The Hard Life and The Dalkey Archive are OK, in a chaotic and middling sort of way, but At Swim-Two-Birds and The Third Policeman are both amazing. Anyone who likes thoughtful/experimental humor (or ridiculous meta-fiction featuring talking cows and erotic bicycles) should give them a whirl.

Surely Powers has no claim on either inventing or popularizing "shit-ton." I assumed it was just a natural product of Rabin's time in Madison, where people are legally required to say it every hour, on the hour.

Given your "loved" list, Swamp Thing and Sandman are indeed both good picks (really, most of the old school Vertigo stuff would probably be up your alley). I would also recommend giving some Love & Rockets a try (particularly the Maggie & Hopey stories that Jaime Hernandez does/did). They are collected in the Locas…

This sort of thread reminds me why I bother reading AVC comments. Shine on, you crazy diamonds!

Y'all need a bad operation.

Bicycle Thieves is sad, but Germany Year Zero is sadder.

Seconded. This is a really great piece, filled equally with info and passion. Thanks!

I kinda like the idea of Don Hertzfeldt directing all of these movies, perhaps all in one go as a two-hour anthology.

I'll jump on this Morrison love train. Boojum, I totally agree with you about his run of Animal Man. He seems to be mining slightly similar territory in Seaguy; I hope he gets to put out parts 2 & 3.

The purist in me thinks a Kirby profile pic would win BB a few more weeks of goodwill. And by "purist" I mean invisible man.

Double Indemnity
She was willing to watch it, but followed it by asking what it was I could possibly like about it. I started making a list, but quickly realized that it wasn't a real question. Turns out anything made before 1990 would get the same treatment. It was sad.