But having rated it five stars, I'm not sure if I ever want to do this to myself again. It was my first time in the theater, and I forgot that on my previous viewing at home I paused a couple times (toilet break, water). In the theater, there is no escape, and I seriously contemplated fleeing a couple times, just because I found the film so effectively anxiety-inducing.

ERASERHEAD is a miracle of sound design, of no-budget imagination, of…

Perhaps you're like me, and haven't seen much Davies, but you've seen enough Loach and Leigh to feel like you've got the measure of things when it comes to British kitchen-sink miserablism, and autobiographical coming of age stories have no special appeal for you, and you saw THE HOUSE OF MIRTH sixteen years ago and it quickly faded into a miasma of costume dramas, bubbling between THE END OF THE AFFAIR and AN IDEAL HUSBAND and a el of Austen…

There's an interesting kernel of humanity tucked into a corner of this peculiarly structured hagiography, the suggestion that there is a tension between the real Liza and the character she has created to play in her life that plagues her, and I perked up briefly. But then it went on to talk about Halston for five minutes and reminded me that fundamentally her thing is not my thing on any level, and while that's not necessarily a show stopper for…

Not as good as the new one, but deserves credit for building the template, and reminding us how weirdly obsessed us men were about wearing oversized clothes in the 90s.

The DVD (which I bought in a 4-pack), incidentally, has a game called "death clock", where you reply to some questions and it tells you when you are going to die. I don't know whether my answers made a difference, but either way, finding out my death would happen in…