Sure, it wasn't up there with the greats, but i laughed a lot.

Self-Jamm!

Alls I know is I laughed a lot.

Thanks, Scott, that was lovely, and brought a tear to my eye. I had the exact same experience with his Movie Home Companions, checking off movies (in pencil) as i saw them. He taught all of us so much, opened up new worlds. It's a very sad day because he meant so much to all of us, even if we didn't quite realise…

Yeah, i grew up on Sneak Previews too. Those two guys really nourished the earliest vestiges of my interest in film. Then Ebert's books helped that interest grow into a deep appreciation of cinema, and he very literally introduced me to many of my heroes— Bergman, Kieslowski, Wenders. So many of the films i first…

I just wrote basically the same thing above. Such an influence on my early feelings on film as an art form. It started with Sneak Previews as a kid, which set me on the path. He later opened me up to foreign cinema, and the more off-the-beaten-path side of american cinema like Koyaanisqatsi and My Dinner With…

Roger Ebert has as much to do with my education of film as an art as anyone. He steered me in the direction of my favorite director, Ingmar Bergman, and so many others… Kieslowski, Malle, Welles, Truffaut, Altman, Antonioni, Godard, Wenders… I could go on and on. Starting in high school, I would obsessively read…

I will enthusiastically second this. I was obsessed with this album for a long time when it came out. Listening to it on my walkman in the library between classes, looking at the liner notes, staring at the brilliant album cover (the cassette was transparent yellow plastic). A friend recently reminded me that, when…

Sax and Violins is an insanely great song, and depending on when you ask me, just might be my very favorite Talking heads song. And going by my iTunes play count, it's in my top 25 most played songs. For a while there, this song was like crack to my brain.

He's a very nice man.

Road to Nowhere, apart from being an amazing song, has an absolutely brilliant video.

I love ALL of Talking Heads' oeuvre, i really do. There's not a bad album in the bunch.

I would argue two things…

Is Will Smith a Scientologis yet? I can never keep track. Or is he starting his own religion/cult with his "family"?

They don't allow bees in here…

We even meet their mother, and we see them being born.

Hey, what ever happened to pizza croissants?!

I agree with everything you said, though i slightly prefer Cries and Whispers as his greatest artistic achievement, with both Fanny and Alexander and Persona second.

I actually have the Criterion from the library (if i could afford to by them all, i would) sitting on my shelf right now, waiting to be watched. Also had Smiles of a summer Night and Summer Interlude (good, not great, Bergman)— trying to fill all the holes in my Bergman viewing. Don't know why i've been putting off…

Bergman had excellent taste in women. Ingrid Thulin was always a bit severe for my tastes, but Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann are some of the most beautiful women i've ever seen, and all unbelievably amazing actors. I was obsessed with Liv Ullman for a few years in college. And no one does a…