Okay, I've written about this particularly droll short before, but at the time there wasn't an embed code anywhere for a video link I could find. There is now, is what I'm getting at, so please enjoy the greatest art film parody of all time -- directed by and starring veteran character actor George Coe, from 1968, it's the Ingmar Bergman-skewering De Düva: The Dove.

To give you an idea just how times have changed, I saw this for the first time in 1974, on HBO, sandwiched between two real Bergman flicks -- Personna and Hour of the Wolf, if memory serves. Now there's programming you won't find on the network any more. In any case, I remember basically laughing so hard I fell off my couch (okay, there may have been drugs involved) and then being unable to take whichever film was the second half of the double bill at all seriously. Actually, I still find it hard to watch real Bergman after this one, but perhaps that only limns the extent of my own personal philistinism.

In any case, yes, that is a very young Madeleine Kahn (in her film debut) as the obvious lesbian who hands her brother a stogie. "Phallika symbol?" she asks, and the subtitle reads, helpfully, "Would you like a cigar?"