I just went back and reread Warrissey's first comment, and it has only six likes. We need to fix this.

Nicole Krauss couldn't blurb this warmly enough.

BTW, that issue of Vanity Fair is absolutely worth a read. There's a lot of the usual filler, but the in-depth interviews with Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Albert Brooks, and others—not to mention the oral history of Freaks and Geeks—are all fascinating.

I clicked on this article really hoping that there would be a picture like this.

It works for Proust, too!

I tried and failed to read Gravity's Rainbow at least three or four times, before I finally decided to commit and bring it as my only English-language book on a two-week trip to Europe.

Agreed—the first half is brilliant, but the movie fatally loses momentum in that basement scene. I think that casting Robbins was a mistake: when he first appears, it gets a laugh from the audience, and you just know he's going to go crazy before long. Going with an unknown actor wouldn't have solved all the problems…

Agreed—the first half is brilliant, but the movie fatally loses momentum in that basement scene. I think that casting Robbins was a mistake: when he first appears, it gets a laugh from the audience, and you just know he's going to go crazy before long. Going with an unknown actor wouldn't have solved all the problems…

Agreed—the first half is brilliant, but the movie fatally loses momentum in that basement scene. I think that casting Robbins was a mistake: when he first appears, it gets a laugh from the audience, and you just know he's going to go crazy before long. Going with an unknown actor wouldn't have solved all the problems…

I'll play: I agree with most of the above, and throw in Errol Morris, Wong Kar-Wai, and usually Spielberg.

I still haven't forgiven Hooper for winning over Fincher, Aronofsky, Russell, and the Coen Brothers. (Not to mention Nolan, if you want to count outright snubs.)

I love the first Electronic album. Johnny Marr has gone on the record as saying that "Get the Message" is the best song he ever wrote, and while I don't think he's quite right, he isn't that far wrong, either.

Nice! Time for the double feature with "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" I've been dreaming about for years…

It's really gorgeous. I was lucky enough to see the restoration on the big screen last year, and it's everything I hoped it would be. (For anyone taking notes, it's worth picking up the Criterion DVD as well, since I think it includes some special features that aren't on the Blu-ray release.)

Have you seen the recent Blu-ray release? It looked pretty great to me.

"Arr…I don't know what I'm doing" may be the line from The Simpsons that I've said to myself most often. (Runner up is Moe's line after observing that they ran out of floorboards while rebuilding Flanders's house, so they just painted the dirt: "Pretty clever!")

This is a fact that doesn't get mentioned nearly often enough.

The red shoes are never tired.

I love it, too, but I also feel that people tend to underrate how inventive the rest of the movie is. It's just crammed with ideas and flourishes and little cinematic jokes, like Citizen Kane, but in Technicolor.

Agreed. I'd love to watch all of these movies again for the first time.