Sh!#ting on the Classics: Better Yet! Part II

Two weeks ago, I posted a humble list of worthwhile films from the past. Many of you thanked me.  Many of you got mad. One of you sent me a crisp $100 bill. Okay-- who am I kidding?  No one got mad.

Sh!#ting on the Classics: Better Yet!

Readers Sol and Heath (both of whom we love) posted comments in the last two weeks that reminded me of two important things. First, not everyone who reads this column has been teaching Film Study for twenty-eight goddamned years. Second, what I sometimes assume is common knowledge might, to others, be hopeless Esoterica (which is both the title of Lars Von Trier’s proposed sequel to Melancholia and the name of Patrick’s wife, I think.)

With that in mind, here is an entire column devoted to “Better Yet” – your educational guide to some worthwhile films from the past. For all of the genres listed, these are good places to start. The choices, take note, are hopelessly personal and not at all academic. “Because all of you of Earth… are idiots!”