Boy meets countryhouse...falls in love with country house and so on in Waugh's Brideshead Revisited

24 Hour Party People credit sequence storyboard

Pier Paolo Pasolini's brutal indictment of a film has been re-released by Criterion

Carole Bouquet's legendary beauty on display in "That Obscure Object Of Desire"

The Dreamers by Bertolucci is an instant classic

Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky is an incredible visual tone poem

Viva the revolutionary wauldrobe!

Sissy Spacek in Terence Malick's "Badlands"

There is a moment in Terence Malik's "Badlands" when Sissy Spacek looks slightly off camera with one of those vacant stares only a teenaged face can master. The gaze is noncommital...suitably blank...and then for a second you understand why what some people think of as a "plain face" can be so prismic. Everytime I watch those key Sissy Spacek vehicles, "Coal Miner's Daughter", "Carrie" and the earlier "Badlands" I see a certain kind of American beauty that goes perfectly with that kind of Federalist, Shaker simplicity that is a great part of the aesthetic of this country. Of course in "Carrie" Spacek lives out the dreamworld/nightmare of every shy teenager in high school. I simply love Spacek's face and everytime I watch her films I wish a really diligent American model scout would source a new girl with this kind of feeling. Super-editorial that Spacek.

Rad Hourani's DVD collection is impeccably curated (and nicely arranged to boot!)

TI's beloved Rad must be able to read minds. Last night I was thinking...I need to do a "Current Viewing" for movies, but in a different way. Then Mr Rad's snap of a portion of his DVD collection shows up in my in box! I love that "Flashdance" in French translates to " Le Feu de la Danse ". Thanks Rad!