Brightest Young Things

So, this week, we're doing personal cult favorites which means I have an excuse to talk about Kusturica. Amen.

One of the (many) points of pride about living and breathing in Yugoslavia for the first 20 years of my life is that Emir Kusturica did some of his best work during that time:
The Time of The Gypsies, While Father Was Away, Black Cat White Cat, and of course, Underground.
Which is a movie as a poem and metaphor and magical realism fairy tale for what living for 50 years under communism was like.
It is stunning and funny and difficult and everything a movie should be (when William gave me this DVD for Christmas one year, I knew we would be friends) and sets by Miljan Kljakovic Kreka (who also did "Delicatessen") and it also features a soundtrack by Goran Bregovic who is nothing short of a master of ethnic pathos.

Enjoy this:

Previously in Misc/Awesome:

• 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
• 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
• 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
• 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
• 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
• 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
• 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
• 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
• 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
• 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)