In my perpetual cycle of attention-whoring, I am working on adding reader-submitted comments to the individual post pages. There is a form there right now; it doesn’t go anywhere.

As I was warming up for class I watched the last hour of Aguirre, the Wrath of God , directed by Werner Herzog and starring the deeply spooky Klaus Kinski. There are a lot of strange men in cinema right now… John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, and the like, but none of them can hold a candle to Kinski for sheer screen presence.