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I used to listen to The Movie Blog’s audio edition for Doug’s comedy, but now I’ll listen to it for John’s childish hissy-fits (this time, over loud teens in the cinema).

They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? has updated their 1,000 Greatest Films list, this time incorporating several major magazine polls and the like. They’ve also released a great PDF of the raw data used to generate the list.

I’m friends with the aquisitions librarian where I work and she let me choose $700 worth of new DVD titles for the library. WOAH! Here’s what I chose:

A Nous La Liberte
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Ashes and Diamonds
Belle De Jour
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Boundu Saved From Drowning
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Careful
Casque D’Or
Death in Venice
In a Year With 13 Moons
In the Mood for Love
In the Realm of the Senses
Jalsaghar
Lord of the Flies (1963)
My Night at Maud’s
Pyaasa
Ratcatcher
Salvatore Giuliano
Sweet Smell of Success
That Obscure Object of Desire
Tree of Wooden Clogs
Trouble in Paradise
Unseen Cinema: Early American Avant-Garde Film
Young Girls of Rochefort

She had just chosen to use some of the budget to aquire, among others:

All That Heaven Allows
Alphaville
Ballad of a Soldier
Band of Outsiders
Bon Voyage
Chasing Amy
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
Dead Man
Dead Ringers
Dogma
Ed Wood
Heaven Can Wait
Hopscotch
La Dolce Vita
Long Good Friday
Mallrats
Most Dangerous Game
Night and Fog
Shock Corridor
The Sea Inside
Taste of Cherry
Ten
Unfaithfully Yours
Walkabout

Honestly, how amazing are those lists? Gotta love libraries. And librarians. And Criterion.

Good Lord, they never stop. You can now download the finest silent slapstick comedy ever made, Buster Keaton’s 1927 masterpiece, The General.

This Divided State is a documentary about Michael Moore’s heated, pre-election visit to Utah. The trailer pushes two things: Godspeed! You Black Emperor rules, and people in Utah are quite capable of insanity.