The continuing weirdness of that WE -Women's Entertainment channel:

Not only do they show re-runs of shitty Lifetime TV movies, but they also randomly show great movies once in a while; last month they showed All The Real Girls, and tonight Ghost World was on. This has to be one of the weirdest channels ever.

Ellen Burstyn gets Emmy-nominated for a 14-second performance

This happened a few weeks ago, but it's still fucking insane:

Ellen Burstyn (who is an amazing actress, by the way... Her performance in Requiem for a Dream is easily the best performance by an actress in at least a decade. If you haven't seen the movie, you're really missing out...) has somehow managed to be nominated for a role that is 14-seconds long.

You can watch her entire performance here
and read another article about the whole mess here.

200 Films to See Before You Die

Recently, FilmFour published a list of the "50 Films to See Before You Die" (you can read the article here). The problem with this list - and most of these "best" lists in general - is a combination of two things: First of all, it's much too short. A list of 50 films barely covers anything. Second of all, this list is a little suspect in what it chooses (Erin Brockovich?) and it relies much too heavily on recent films.
So, I took a good half hour and made this list. There's 200 films here, in no particular order. They're spit up into genres, in an attempt to give it some kind of structure. Keep in mind that there are, of course, many many more great films out there, this is just kind of a starting point.

Crime Drama
1. The Godfather Trilogy (1972, 1974, 1990)
2. Goodfellas (1990)
3. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
4. Mean Streets (1973)
5. Heat (1995)
6. High and Low (1963)
7. Badlands (1973)
8. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
9. Rashômon (1950)
10. Breathless (1960)
11. L.A. Confidential (1997)
12. The Usual Suspects (1995)
13. Serpico (1973)
14. Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
15. Fargo (1996)

Film Noir
16. Chinatown (1974)
17. The Third Man (1949)
18. M (1931)
19. Double Indemnity (1944)
20. Touch of Evil (1958)
21. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
22. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Coming-of-age films
23. The 400 Blows (1959)
24. Stolen Kisses (1968)
25. American Graffiti (1973)
26. Dazed and Confused (1993)
27. Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
28. The Breakfast Club (1985)
29. Almost Famous (2000)
30. A Christmas Story (1983)
31. Dead Poets Society (1989)
32. My Life as a Dog (1985)
33. Rushmore (1998)
34. Stand By Me (1986)
35. Big (1988)
36. Diner (1982)
37. Ghost World (2000)
38. The Graduate (1967)
39. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Action/Adventure
40. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
41. Die Hard (1988)
42. The Fugitive (1993)
43. Terminator 2 (1991)
44. Jurassic Park (1993)
45. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Documentaries
46. Hearts and Minds (1974)
47. Hoop Dreams (1994)
48. Roger & Me (1989)
49. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
50. Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Courtroom Dramas
51. 12 Angry Men (1957)
52. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
53. The Verdict (1982)
54. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

War/Holocaust films
55. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
56. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
57. Paths of Glory (1957)
58. Apocalypse Now (1979)
59. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
60. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
61. Das Boot (1981)
62. Coming Home (1978)
63. The Deer Hunter (1978)
64. Platoon (1986)
65. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
66. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
67. Schindler’s List (1993)
68. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
69. The Pianist (2002)

Drama
70. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
71. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
72. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
73. Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
74. Breaking the Waves (1996)
75. Dancer in the Dark (2000)
76. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
77. The Lost Weekend (1945)
78. Ordinary People (1980)
79. Taxi Driver (1976)
80. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
81. On the Waterfront (1954)
82. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
83. American Beauty (1999)
84. Seven Samurai (1954)
85. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
86. Wild Strawberries (1957)
87. The Seventh Seal (1957)
88. The Virgin Spring (1960)
89. Persona (1966)

Historical Drama
90. JFK (1991)
91. Apollo 13 (1995)
92. The Last Emperor (1987)
93. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
94. Barry Lyndon (1975)
95. Ran (1985)
96. Malcolm X (1992)

Sports Drama
97. Hoosiers (1986)
98. Rocky (1976)
99. Raging Bull (1980)
100. Rudy (1993)

Multiple-character stories
101. Short Cuts (1993)
102. Boogie Nights (1997)
103. Magnolia (1999)
104. Nashville (1975)

Westerns
105. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
106. Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
107. The Searchers (1956)
108. The Wild Bunch (1969)
109. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

About Films/Filmmaking
110. 8½ (1963)
111. Cinema Paradiso (1989)
112. Day for Night (1973)
113. Living in Oblivion (1995)
114. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
115. Burden of Dreams (1982)
116. The Player (1992)
117. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Science Fiction/Fantasy
118. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
119. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
120. Back to the Future (1985)
121. E.T. (1982)
122. Edward Scissorhands (1990)
123. Ghostbusters (1984)
124. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003)

Horror/Thriller
125. Alien (1979)
126. Carrie (1976)
127. The Birds (1963)
128. Rear Window (1954)
129. Psycho (1960)
130. Vertigo (1958)
131. North By Northwest (1959)
132. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
133. Dawn of the Dead (1978)
134. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
135. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
136. Misery (1990)
137. Deliverance (1972)
138. Evil Dead 2 (1987)
139. The Exorcist (1973)
140. The Shining (1980)
141. Halloween (1978)
142. Jaws (1975)
143. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
144. The Conversation (1974)
145. Marathon Man (1976)

Romance
146. The Apartment (1960)
147. Casablanca (1942)
148. Gone With the Wind (1939)
149. The Goodbye Girl (1977)

Love/Relationships
150. Annie Hall (1977)
151. Manhattan (1979)
152. Before Sunrise (1995)
153. Before Sunset (2004)
154. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
155. High Fidelity (2000)
156. Jules and Jim (1961)

Screwball Comedy
157. The Bad News Bears (1976)
158. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
159. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
160. Some Like It Hot (1959)
161. Tootsie (1982)
162. Groundhog Day (1993)
163. My Cousin Vinny (1992)
164. Animal House (1978)
165. The Odd Couple (1968)
166. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Dark Comedy
167. Fight Club (1999)
168. Welcome to the Dollhouse (1997)
169. Harold and Maude (1971)

REALLY Dark Comedy
170. Blue Velvet (1986)
171. Happiness (1998)
172. Heathers (1989)

Satire
173. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
174. M*A*S*H (1970)
175. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
176. Being There (1979)
177. Brazil (1985)
178. Network (1976)
179. Office Space (1999)
180. The Great Dictator (1940)

Groundbreaking/Controversial films
181. Brokeback Mountain (2005)
182. Do the Right Thing (1989)
183. Boyz N the Hood (1991)
184. Pulp Fiction (1994)
185. Philadelphia (1993)
186. Easy Rider (1969)
187. Citizen Kane (1941)
188. The Jazz Singer (1927)
189. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
190. Last Tango in Paris (1972)
191. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
192. Kids (1995)
193. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Experimental/Non-Narrative
194. Days of Heaven (1978)
195. The Thin Red Line (1998)
196. Slacker (1994)

Silent films
197. City Lights (1931)
198. Metropolis (1927)
199. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
200. Nosferatu (1922)

Well... recently, I've put up a whole bunch of new shit on YouTube, so instead of telling you about each thing, I will instead direct you here, where you can look at the new stuff all in one place. Have fun.

I was watching The Fresh Prince of Bel Air tonight...not a strange thing in and of itself... What was strange? Seeing Brad Garrett (pre-Raymond fame) as a burglar. Weird.

John C. Reilly was on Larry King tonight! He was on with Will Ferrell promoting that awful-looking new movie Talladega Nights...
But the best thing: they were both on the show, in character for the entire interview! John C. Reilly, playing a character, improvising, for like an hour... awesome.

Damn, I forgot how great Dancer in the Dark actually is...