What throws me off on the Gira thing is that he did admit that something happened, so to me it sounded like he didn't understand what consent means. But I've only read the two screenshots of the original Facebook postings from Larkin and the two Giras and his statement via his publicist. Haven't seen anything else…

I'm not a fan of his so I haven't heard about this, but good god. Do you have some extremely depressing list of all the musicians who have been accused. I'm still upset about the fact that Gira is a rapist.

Probably jumping in unnecessarily, but as someone who reads only some of the threads both here and AVCAD, I find that the vitriol (usually from both sides) of these occasional flareups confusing, and kind of offputting. Not having read the threads where the conflicts originated means that I don't know the history and…

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When I was a kid I rented Humanité and I just remember my mom walking in on one of the sex scenes and then walking in again on a masturbation scene and asking me, completely serious and aghast, if I had rented porn.

I always thought that the real Hugh Glass story seems much more crazy. He did what he did out of the sheer will to survive. In that sense I felt like the film pulled its punches. Overall I enjoyed the movie but it certainly has its flaws, and at least some of that can be attributed to Inarritu's tendency to be heavy…

So has anyone here seen Rocco Siffredi in the Catherine Breillat films? I haven't but I'm curious if he follows suit. Or does that also not work because Breillat is part of the arthouse scene?

Edward G. robinson plays an investigator, MacMurray's boss, who verifies the claims. He's actually a pretty important part of the movie even if Barbara Stanwyck's brilliance tends to make everything else recede a little more into the background.

Thanks for the response. I've been ambivalent about him though I liked a lot of their early work. Sadly, I guess I'll still always be a bit ambivalent. For what it's worth the person warning me about him never went into explicit detail but from what I understood he was known to be sketchy when it came to inebriation.…

Hmm…on a random note, was the Isaac Brock thing cleared up in some way? Someone I was friendly with (and attended middle and high school with) actually told me to watch myself around Brock if I ever attended an after show party or drink. This was in like 1998, I think before anyone publicly made allegations. I have to…

He's not necessarily super well known, but he was kind of floating in his own little world somewhere between post-industrial and New York no wave in the 80s and 90s. He's mostly known under various iterations of Foetus (Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel is the artist name for two of his best albums, Hole, and Nail) and…

Maybe it's my bias*, but I would start from the very beginning. Even if it isn't as elegant, they lay down the foundation for the character beats from the very start of the series, and the character building is what makes the show so great, funny, and have such wonderful rewatch value, imo.

Check the film distributor website? That's usually my go to for finding out where and when a particular film will play, now that I have left NYC.

I initially thought that it was satirical!

Boo. Disqus ate my response.

I definitely would urge you to do so though I'm biased as a big fan of Melville's writing. One of the most haunting scenes (imo) is Ekaterina Golubeva running through the woods early on in the movie and it is a pretty spot on translation of one of Melville's more formally daring chapters. I really like both the book…

Oops. My mistake. You are entirely correct. I find the two characters to be so divergent that I think of them as separate entities even though one is based on the other. That will teach me to post a "correction" without double checking my own misremembered assertions.

Yup. The Departed is based on the great Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs. The Nicholson character, inspired by Bulger, was an add-on to The Departed, not in the original movie.

Actually Pola X, imo, is pretty true to the actual book (in both plot and spirit). It's mostly missing the commentary on the nature of being a writer, but almost everything else is there. Its unhinged nature has a little less to do with Leos Carax's purported enfant terrible tendencies and more to do with the fact…