The Museum of the Moving Image has a cool website: Moving Image Source.

Lots to explore there Including a piece on The Wire.

Oooh, Corwood would like this article, it opens with a comparison of the Wire with Straw Dogs.

Bonus: They break down each season of The Wire's title sequence.

Tivo Alert: TCM is showing the rarely screened Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush (Sept. 12) - a movie best known for its Spencer Davis soundtrack, but favored by me because it features Angela Scoular as the most blithe and madcap mod girl ever.

Film shots here.

Not a great movie but enjoyable, particularly if you like the era.

Note to Aimee: it also features Judy Geeson (in a nude scene), aka the Mean British Neighbor from Mad About You.

Does anyone know the best way to fix a scratch on a DVD disc? My multi-disc player occasionally refuses to change discs without scratching the hell out of them, and did so on Sunday night to Disc 1 of my practically-brand-new Spaced set.

Damnit.

And I don't want to have to buy a new set unless I absolutely have to, so any repair tips y'all can give would be appreciated!

t also features Judy Geeson

also the school girl who had a crush on Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love.

also the school girl who had a crush on Sidney Poitier in To Sir With Love.

That's her!

It's one of my all-time favorite movies.

It's one of my all-time favorite movies.

I've got the soundtrack. It's a favorite among hip hop DJs/producers because it's got some very funky grooves for sampling.

Video interview with Viggo Mortensen about Good.

Good trailer - headline made me laugh: "Aragorn Fights Nazis with Lucius Malfoy."

Note to Aimee: it also features Judy Geeson (in a nude scene), aka the Mean British Neighbor from Mad About You.

Woo! I *love* her!!

Brian Cox is interviewed at the AV Club and had an interesting notion that I'd never considered. I mean, I don't know if it's true or not, but it is an interesting take.

AVC: In the '70s and '80s, you didn't do many films, but from Rob Roy on, you've done a lot. What changed in your career?

BC: I'd always wanted to do movies, but if you grow up in these islands—especially where I grew up in these islands—the theatre is very powerful, very potent. It's a part of our heritage. Our culture is really a theatrical culture, not a cinematic culture. Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into "Everybody in their place and who's who," and all that. But the theatre's full of that. Especially in Shakespeare. So in a way, it behooves you as a British actor to try and master the classics and become a classical player. I got caught up in it. It wasn't something I wanted to do, but I was too late.

And right away, I'm thinking of a counter example, which is Japan. A feudal society with a great cinematic tradition.