A few others worth mentioning: Dirk Bogarde, Oliver Stone (really just a terrible manuscript that he wrote as a teen and decided to publish decades later), Gus Van Sant (PINK is actually a pretty good book), Donald Cammell/Marlon Brando, Terry Gilliam (ANIMATIONS OF MORTALITY is essentially a tongue-in-cheek graphic…

Cryer is dead wrong about O.C. & STIGGS. That movie is an extremely strong satire of upper-class snobbery and teen-oriented films of the 1980's. 

That's nice to hear. I was Facebook friends with him while he had been laid off from his previous job and had gotten divorced, but I closed my account for good in early 2012.

Kipling's JUST SO STORIES-Kindergarten

I'm continually astonished by the continued ubiquity of words like "fag" and "retard". Hasn't society evolved enough to leave this garbage behind?

Along with the 1995 SPIN ALTERNATIVE RECORD GUIDE, Prindle's site helped turn me into a serious music nerd. Pity that he's been going through some tough times in recent years, as I hope he'll resurrect it one day.

Travolta's mind-blowingly horrible Cockney accent in Robert Altman's television adaptation of Harold Pinter's THE DUMB WAITER needs more exposure.

GALAPAGOS is his greatest achievement. Just a stunningly realized, hilarious dystopia with wonderful commentary on American and British imperialism.

THE SOURCE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF FATHER YOD, YA HO WA 13 AND THE SOURCE FAMILY. Excellent oral history of a health restaurant entrepreneur who started a cult/psychedelic jam band in 1970's Hollywood. A documentary from the editor of this book is being theatrically released soon.

On Friday evening I went alone to see the first screening of Trent Harris' RUBIN & ED (1991) in over 20 years at the Cinefamily Theatre. The following day, I took my partner to see a beautiful 35mm print of Polanski's THE TENANT (1976) at the New Beverly Cinema.

Is ONION NEWS NETWORK ever coming to Blu-Ray? It was much funnier than NEWSREADERS. 

Classic output from a follower of the Garth Marenghi School of Expository Writing.

For years, I thought that Schwarzbaum and Gleiberman were the same person writing under pseudonyms. Surely, no magazine can have TWO critics that are that inane, right? I mean, ROLLING STONE just has one Peter Travers.

Yes. Bakshi essentially completed the movie during the mid-70's. Warner Bros. declined to release that cut, which was primarily live-action, so he ended up rewriting it and shooting it as a rotoscoped film in between work on WIZARDS, THE LORD OF THE RINGS and AMERICAN POP. Bakshi sunk quite a bit of his own money into…

I wonder if part of the reason why Warners is unwilling to release Bakshi's original cut may be due to music licensing, as the original cut featured the New York Dolls and some other artists. 

He admits that he tried coke but strongly disliked it.

I really want to try a session in a sensory deprivation tank. There are a few establishments in L.A., and some of them even offer gift cards!

just angel dust, please

"A Fifth of Beethoven" by future Seth MacFarlane collaborator Walter Murphy.

Here's what's in the new cut that played at Cannes in 2012: http://notesofafilmfanatic….