Try "The Piano Teacher" if you can stomach it. It's brutal, and has one of the most shocking final images I've seen in a film. Also, I'd recommend "Time of the Wolf," which has a wonderfully unnerving setup. It culminates in a typical Haneke non-ending, leaving the viewer deliberately frustrated, but it's a great…

I think the fact that Saunders hasn't written a novel, and has still commanded both critical praise and a strong public reception and fan base is quite a remarkable achievement, given the fact that typically short story collections don't sell all that well and do wind up in the dustbins.  We live in an…