A while ago I saw a movie on IFC a couple times called "Kicking and Screaming" (not the Will Ferrell one from last year). It was directed by Noah Baumbach, and was really really good. I was dismayed to find that it wasn't available on DVD. When I saw "The Squid and the Whale" I was buoyed by its excellence, thinking it portended well for his other films being noticed more. Sure enough, not only has the day come, but it's being released by the Criterion Collection! Evidently their unconditional love of Wes Anderson extends to his recent collaborator.

The only downside is that Criterion has a new logo that, so far, I don't much care for. It's a tilted 'C', and though I can see the motivation behind it--it's more of a symbol, and certainly more recognizable in small images than the previous skinny capital letters with the horizontal line. But those letters and that line had come to symbolize so much to me. This is just a letter 'C' that could be anything. On the other hand, they are also releasing all of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales.