A guy who has used film as a personal religion, mythology, ethical substructure, and a handbook to learn why all the women in his life could never satisfy his desire to just sit in a little cafe and talk to Isabelle Huppert ’til it closed.

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Stranded in Canton

At Sea

The Wishing Tree

Bloodettes

It may seem an overly simplified exhortation given the dire predicament we have got ourselves into, yet would it not make at least a good start on the road to recovery from our present soul-sickness if we were to stand back and just look? — John Banville

Time is a boat (and) the Earth is a cake. —B.Fontaine

Few people can guess how despondent one has to be in order to resuscitate Carthage. —G. Flaubert

Everyone is their own kind of Lesbian. —Portia de Rossi

There has never been a document of culture, which is not simultaneously one of barbarism. —Walter Benjamin

I wouldn’t need a hero if I wasn’t such a zero. —Elliott Smith

Seeing the invisible is exhausting. —Hélas pour moi, JLG

_* = No Need to Watch
_* * = Only Moderately Worthwhile Viewing
_* * * = Entertaining and More
_* * * * = Moments of Awe, Perhaps Uneven
_* * * * * = A Superior Realization of a Welter of Audio-Visual Ideas Falling Into Place by an Honest use of Subject-Determined Craft and Artistic Purpose; or It Features Katy Jurado

So long Oxy, Ruby, Odi, Magpies, Bee