One of the better moments comes * SPOILER * toward the end when Marden fights Skarsgard. Lurie does capture the futility of a little guy trying to best a big one through strength alone. I'll give the movie that.

I should also mention that Bordwell's PLANET HONG KONG has a new, electronic edition. It's on his site: http://www.davidbordwell.ne…

I bought a DVD off Amazon from a company called Mei Ah Entertainment. It's a legit release with English, traditional Chinese, and simplified Chinese subtitles. It looks good—not remastered good, but good.

I didn't find room to say much about Wong, in part because I don't know his other films all that well. But he strikes me as kind of a cross between Roger Corman and Luc Besson, anticipating and cashing in on trends with panache and cultivating a stable of directors to do the same. Maybe that's a stretch. Definitely a…

That was a little after my time, I think. But, yes, I remember noticing that when I went there during college.

You know what? I didn't even think about the Hitler/cupboard connection. Maybe Hitler will be coming out of the cupboard before the season's through, too.

You know @avclub-795837a258b608bf5c0c1288efa4d59c:disqus  if I haven't banished you yet with that avatar, shouldn't you assume I have a pretty liberal approach to banishment.

I was pretty bored.

She's the purple-cloaked woman from a two-page spread. Apparently she's making appearances in the background of all 52 first issues. At least that's the rumor. She's definitely in JL. Here's a close-up: http://www.bleedingcool.com…

Some Of the Blood Vomit Crisis spin-offs were totally underrated. The Canterbury Blood Vomitter had some really clever notions.

Have any of you heard the track "Don't Cry, Driver" from the Two-Lane tribute album You Can Never Go Fast Enough? It's Alan Licht and Will Oldham merging, I think, every line of The Driver's dialogue with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina." Kind of awesome. Wish it was on YouTube, but here's the album: http://www.amazon.com/…

Never seen that one either. I think all the versions floating around are pan and scan. Could be wrong.

It's now available from MGM equivalent of Warner Archive:

That book's great but he really seems to have a problem with plastic surgery in general and a wariness of transsexuality ("the most extreme example of socially sanctioned vivsection."). And I get the plastic surgery thing, the way it's warped perceptions of what the human body ought to be. But I also think people…

I'm mostly with you @avclub-d287ab72140b44071e69e6255b859cec:disqus , though found it a little more affecting. Best things: The evocation of its time and place and the way it helped demythologize Joy Division a bit, showing them as working-class guys who wanted to play music.

An autobiographical aside that I didn't find room for in the piece:
When I was about six or seven, a traveling show set up camp in our local mall one weekend. It featured a pair of lions in a cage and some cubs, with whom kids could pose for pictures. I remember sitting next to the trainer and having a heavy, sleeping…

I'll join the chorus of recommending The Black Cat. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember liking it a lot.

Gordon got really fond of grotesque amputations, didn't he? Ever see Castle Freak?

I'm surprised Yoda isn't now doing backflips while he delivers that speech. Because through the wonder of CGI he _totally_ could.

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