Screening in 35mm at the Cinefamily in Los Angeles. A beautiful print of Sign O' the Times screened at the New Beverly last year

Hmm. "Mountains". "Erotic City". "Endorphinmachine". "Joy in Repetition". "In a Large Room with No Light". "Starfish and Coffee".

He ranked alongside Duke Ellington and Miles Davis as one of the most singular and brilliant American composers to emerge during the 20th century. After the 1980's, I think his capacity to select the best material he wanted the public to consume diminished somewhat, and critics have confused that with an artistic…

Train is, too. Both bands are the equivalent of musical hate crimes.

it pisses me off that HBO won't use this feature to spotlight the series and films they produced during the 80's and 90's. I'd love to see televised plays like THE LAUNDROMAT (1985) again and Lindsay Anderson's GLORY! GLORY! (1988) in HD.

The novel this is based on has developed a huge cult following over the years, which is extremely impressive considering that it was published by a relatively small press. Great, albeit very strange roman a clef.

I don't recall. No A-listers, but their voices were all perfect for it. The woman who did Princess Irulan and read the proverbs at the beginning of each chapter was particularly good.

If you read those two others and haven't checked them out yet, Jayne Anne Phillips' Black Tickets, The Collected Stories of Maeve Binchy and Hortense Calisher are all musts, too

I listened to DUNE's terrific full-cast audiobook about a year ago. I really need to finish the other Frank Herbert books (and explore the rest of his oeuvre).

I want to read it back to back with MALCOLM X: A LIFE OF REINVENTION.

HOUSEKEEPING is my pick for best American novel of the second half of the 20th century. Bill Forsyth's film adaptation is stunning, too, and would be widely acknowledged as a classic if Columbia Studios hadn't been imploding at the time and could've promoted it.

Listening to both Eddie Huang's Fresh Off the Boat and Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending on audiobook in my car. On my nightstand, I've got Chris Kraus's I Love Dick, Beitong's Beijing Comrades, Anita Desai's In Custody and Michael Shaara's For Love of the Game.

Just a perfect film. Phil Joanou wanted to make After Hours in a high school, and he succeeded brilliantly

Naturally. I fucking loathe most of the films Hughes produced, especially PRETTY IN PINK

from '79

Three O'Clock High is the best. Calling Repo Man a "teen movie" is a real stretch

why would devote more time discussing a widely-seen work like Repo Man and not give attention to one of Cox's later efforts, like the brilliant Highway Patrolman or Death & the Compass?

Altman was probably neck and neck with Welles as the greatest American filmmaker ever. With the exception of QUINTET (which I'd still rewatch), most of his works, beginning with THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK, are just stunning. He was one of the single greatest chroniclers of American life, period, and I'd rank him…

There are *very* few Hollywood films with passable Dutch or Afrikaans accents. Actually, I think Stephen Dorff's Afrikaans in THE POWER OF ONE is among those rare solid ones.

I can't wait to see this. I loved 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND and 3 DAYS TO KILL as well.