Please, Mr. Postman...

Please stop destroying my Netflix discs. Pretty please. I realize I have a miniscule mailbox, but don't blame me—take it up with my apartment manager. All I'm asking is that I come home, unlock the mailbox, and *not* find a Netflix envelope that's crumpled and, well, curved. That's surely not a good sign when a flat disc can somehow be shaped into a curve. First it was I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. The latest victim, Dark Days, suffered a cruel fate yesterday. That's two discs in less than two weeks—both snapped completely in half. Netflix is going to blacklist me or something, and nobody wants that. Feel free to cram, wrinkle, crumple, and crush the junk mail, but please spare the bright red envelopes. Thank you.

August Film Journal

Camera Buff (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979)
Visions of Light (Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, and Stuart Samuels, 1992)
The Lower Depths (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
4 Little Girls (Spike Lee, 1997)
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson, 1995)
Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles et al., 1975)
Late Spring (Yasujiro Ozu, 1949)
Good Night, and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005)
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)
The Bad and the Beautiful (Vincente Minnelli, 1952)
Sparrows (William Beaudine, 1926)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932)

Italics denote a trip to the theater.