"…plays like the most formally and conceptually ambitious drama the Dardenne brothers never made."

I'd totally forgotten about that one. Their video for 'Sophie' (also a great one-take vid) is burned into my memory due to its permanent rotation on Juice TV back in 2001, but 'Blowing Dirt' is probably better due to the hazy brown visuals, neat focus-shifting, and off-kilter vibe.

Since it's released on the Death Waltz imprint there should be a proper retail release. It'll just be the unique colour variants that are event exclusive.

That is an awesome awesome list.

Given that it's totally impossible to create any definitive list of Mountain Goats songs - since fans tend to form really strong personal connections to such a diverse range of them - this is actually not a bad list. Most of the important themes and song cycles are represented, good mix of old and new, along with…

The footage of the panel is included as an extra on the Moral Orel Season 1 DVD. I don't recall too much, but Dino definitely brings his alcohol on stage with him, has it forcibly removed, and then makes fun of the way Doc Hammer looks. It's awkward as fuck.

The melody line kicks in at the same time as the drums, which always diverted my attention away from it. It's a weird feeling to realise it had been staring you in the face for over 10 years and you'd never noticed.

Here's a great video about the history of the Amen break, along with samples of how its use has evolved over the years: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

If it weren't for that website I never would have realised that the Lawrence of Arabia theme was subtly sampled by The Avalanches in "Frontier Psychiatrist".

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Hiring Brian Yuzna as a director is the only way Lifetime could get me to watch these.

Yep, the infamous drill shot is there. Not certain the Cat in the Brain clips technically count as Fulci because all the gore scenes in that were spliced in from other films, a couple of which I believe were directed by Andrea Bianchi. The visual continuity in the bits where actors are inserted into scenes from other…

Not particularly, I can see how it would be unsettling. I just happen to have a memory for pointless and esoteric movie trivia while also being fond of trash cinema. If someone made a montage of Rossellini or Pasolini films I could probably do the same thing but let's face it, sleaze is more fun.

Many of the clips from that gore montage come from Lucio Fulci movies. The woman having her face burned off is from Contraband, and the clip of a dude getting his cheek blasted out is one of the less violent moments from New York Ripper.

"Don't put the gas away yet."

The casual lean Teti is doing at the beginning of this totally made my day.

That's the thing about a director like Franco - lots of his films sound amazing in theory. Actually watching them is something else together.

This, of course, extends to Erotic Rites as well. The version on the Kino/Redemption release is the 'hot' version with full frontal nudity. The 'cool' edit prepared for the Spanish market not only featured alternate takes with the actors clothed for all the major nude scenes, but also included an entirely new subplot…

As slapdash and haphazard as it may be, some of Erotic Rites scenes and images really are terrific (transcendant even, if you're watching it in the right frame of mind). Howard Vernon is a great actor with tremendous presence, but the extreme close-ups of his glaring, hypnotic eyes in this film may be one of the most…

The music playing as Princess Carolyn enters the painting is an arrangement of the Promenade from Modest Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. Because of course it is.