I'd recommend starting with Persona. I started with The Seventh Seal, and then Wild Strawberries. I liked them both (later loved them), but they didn't really strike a personal cord with me. Then i saw Persona, and Bergman was instantly my favorite director. It's "modern", so it's pretty accessible and identifiable,…

The Best Intentions is beautiful. Bergman wrote it (Bille August directed— it was after Bergman's "retirement") about the early years of his parent's relationship. It's like a cross between something like Fanny and Alexander, and a really good Masterpiece Theater series (that's not an insult— i love Masterpiece). …

I was told once, and have often repeated, that your sound system is only as good as your speakers. Whenever setting up a new system, i always get a set of good, appropriately sized (for the room), speakers (i've always loved Definitive Technology), plus a set of really nice headphones. That's worked well for me for…

Lost did that too.

1 of paper = 4 of coin

Is this article some kind of joke on us? Or am i missing something?

It's good… it's going to be good, it's going to be good.

The Twin Peaks Pilot is indeed a perfect first episode of television (so's the Lost pilot), and i agree that when Maddie is killed it's one of the most disturbing, wrenching things i've ever seen, ever.

I'll second Portal as a perfect video game.

Half-life is my favorite video game series (though Metroid and Resident Evil are a close second and third), and i can't seem to go 6 months without the urge to wander around City 17 taking hold of me.

I've played more Just Cause 2 than any other game in my entire life, well over 100 hours. The story was pretty much nothing, but it was insanely fun, and the play mechanics were absolutely perfect.

WKRP in Cincinnati and Northern Exposure put out by Shout! Factory with all the original music intact are my two DVD Holy Grails (there were two of those, right?).

I just mastered programming my vcr— it was a Broksonic!  The friends would come over Saturday afternoon and we'd indulge in children's programming.

I do love this show.  Discovered it kinda late (end of season 2, the tap dance across America episode).  Nobody makes me laugh like Jon.  Still haven't seen the first season, so i have that in my back pocket.  But i'm still sad to see this hilarious show go.

Nice one. This episode really made an impression on me. The poor bastard just could not stop himself from being a dick. Kind of like sliding on ice in your car towards another car.

I've always thought Ab Aeterno was one of Lost's universally loved episodes, along with Walkabout or The Constant. I know I loved it.

Wow… that's the cream of the crop. Season four is lookin' up!

I know it's a zombie apocalypse and all, but it's so great when the characters show a little warmth and genuine humor towards one another. This was a great episode (by Walking Dead standards), especially for Michonne and Carl. We needed this episode going into the Prison/Woodbury War.

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to bring this up! While watching this episode (which i thought excellent), this popped into my mind every single time the show showed news coverage. The way the kept showing over and over Buckwheat getting shot in slow-mo— it was brilliant. I especially loved it when they…

Hannah and Her Sisters, the first "mature" Woody Allen movie that i loved (i was a senior in h.s. when it came out, and i hadn't seen Manhattan yet), introduced me to e.e. cummings. As a result, I was obsessed with him for years, for his simple, almost conversational use of language, and his graphic design-like…