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There have been some very cool physical media announcements in the past day or so -- yes, even on top of Bottoms! (I will never get tired of that one.) So here, a quick rundown of the three that feel the most important to me right this second. First Radiance Films (based out of the UK) have announced a blu-ray of Luchino Visconti's first film La Terra Trema (aka The Earth Trembles but I never see it called that). I've briefly posted about this movie a couple of times but mainly just to recognize that its leading man Antonio Arcidiacono (seen above) is one of the most stunning men every put onscreen. He wasn't a trained actor -- Visconti just had eyes. And so he put him in front of a camera and had him stand there. And that's why Visconti remains a legend! In all seriousness (not that I wasn't being serious already) this is a really stunning and meditative film that captures 1940s Sicily in all its neo-realist finery and I can't wait to see an upgrade from the shitty DVD I have of this. (PS when buying Radiance titles I recommend buying from DiabolikDVD or OrbitDVD here in the US -- it takes a little extra time but you save on shipping costs.) 

The other title from Radiance I recommend is Todd Solondz's 2005 movie Palindromes, which has gotten a full 4K upgrade in time for its 20th (!!!) anniversary. We'd figured this physical media release was coming because IFC is premiering this restoration in a couple of weeks here in NYC (and you'd best believe I'm seeing it with Solondz there to talk about the movie on opening weekend!) On that note there's a good chance this will get a U.S. release (maybe from Criterion, who's released most of Solondz's other movies here) so maybe hold off? Personally speaking I'm impatient so I already bought this one -- Radiance does beautiful work so I'm sure I'll be happy with their version.    

The third physical media release I'm recommending is the double-feature set of vintage porn-ster Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s films Juice and Daddy Dearest from the mid-80s -- you can pre-order this set right here, which is coming to us to the elite queer historians at Altered Innocence. I haven't seen either of these yet but Altered Innocence has yet to steer me wrong, and I've liked what else I've seen of Bresson's work.

Oh and now that I'm thinking about it (it being gay porn) -- I don't think I mentioned here on the site prop-er that Vinegar Syndrome has Bruce La Bruce's two most recent works of art-porn  for sale this month -- click here for his twincest flick Saint-Narcisse (which isn't actually pornographic; just semi-obscene in theory really) and click here to buy his new movie The Visitor, a reowrking of Pasolini (Sidenote: Happy birthday, Pasolini!) that is very very pornographic indeed. Now look at all of this entertainment I have brought you! You won't have to pay attention to the nightmarish real world for literal hours!

Bruce LaBruce's Movie Premiere Sex Party

Why is the UK getting all the sexy fun stuff this year? First it's Kit Harington's penis -- now queer punk underground filmmaking legend Bruce LaBruce is turning the premiere of his new pornographic art movie into a sex party. The movie is called The Visitor, and it is his XXX-rated take on Pasolini's film Teorama -- that tale as old as time where a hot stranger comes to stay with a family and proceeds to fuck every member of the family, the end. 

On January 11th the film is opening in the U.K. with an "Immersive Cinema Experience" at "an undisclosed location" where attendees will be tossed into a series of spaces recreating scenes in the film that "aims to revive the participatory culture of historical porn theaters." Normally this wouldn't be my scene (I am a shy little wallflower) but fuck it the world is falling apart -- given what is happening in the U.S. this January maybe I should just get on a plane. Or maybe BLB can be kind enough to take this traveling sex circus on the road. We're gonna need things to keep our minds (et cetera) occupied next year, man! Anyway below is the trailer (the film doesn't have a U.S. date yet) and then hit the jump for the full press release...

Good Morning, World

I guess I just lack imagination because if you'd have told me that all it would take for Quebecois twink extraordinaire Théodore Pellerin to plunk himself comfortably down inside director Bruce La Bruce's eroticized punk pornographic aesthetic was a shaving of his head I'd have demanded evidence... and here's said evidence! Théodore shaved his head either for this Behind the Blinds photoshoot or for a role that happened to coincide with the shoot -- either way you can see in a couple of shots the hair getting shorter as it goes along...

... so it was happening while the shoot was happening. So hey Bruce la Bruce if you're listening and/or looking -- get in touch with Théodore's people ASAP.  I have been too busy with Tribeca to watch Solo, Pellerin's toxic drag queen romance with Felix Maritaud (and talk about another actor who should be working with Bruce La Bruce), but this shoot makes one feel as if Théodore. is looking to roughen up his image and I can imagine to no rougher. Hit the jump for what we've got of this shoot so far...

Little Joe Goes Deep

Well here's a perfectly nice Monday surprise -- there's a chat between Warhol legend Joe "Little Joe" Dallesandro and director Bruce LaBruce in the new issue of Interview Magazine and you can read it right here. Bruce goes out of his way to ask Joe about a lot of his roles in forgotten movies so notsomuch the Paul Morrissey movies we all remember him from and it makes for a good unexpected conversation. Although Dallesandro is per usual not the most verbose of figures. I like that he comes off exactly as he did fifty years ago in those movies though -- you can hear every answer in that voice of his. Interview was also generous enough to share these photos seen here of Joe which I have never seen before, and I figured I'd seen them all at this point. 

Manu Rios One Time

The gift boy who keeps giving --

see several more photos from this shoot back here.

Manu Rios Six (Plus Six) Times

Okay who's the homosexual-in-power who let the noted (blessed) gay pervert director Bruce LaBruce photograph the actor Manu Rios? (PS click here for our Manu thread on Twitter.) I ask because I need to know where to send flowers, of course. This is for something called Dust magazine (there are so many pretend magazines online now, I can't keep up) and sure enough Bruce shot Manu like Manu should be shot (which is to say "slutty"). And let's hope that Pedro Almodóvar takes the ball and runs with it with that gay western he's making with Manu. Hit the jump for the rest...

Good Morning, Gratuitous Pier-Gabriel Lajoie

Far far far too long since I've checked in on Quebecois actor and model Pier-Gabriel Lajoie, who co-starred in my favorite Bruce La Bruce movie Gerontophilia way back in 2013 -- how is that movie about to be a decade old already??? Anyway it's not really my fault as Lajoie hasn't really done a lot of acting in that time, and none of it was in anything that made its way south of the border as far as I can recognize off of IMDb. But that's about to change as he's in the new thing from Xavier Dolan!

(Took ya long enough, Xav.) It's not a movie, though -- Dolan's made himself a fancy five-episode prestige series, he has. Described as a Hitchcockian psychological thriller and based on a play by the writer Marc Brouchard, who also wrote the basis of Dolan's film Tom at the Farm (aka my favorite thing Dolan's ever done) the series is titled, deep breath, The Night Where Laurier Gaudreault Woke Up, and it stars Dolan himself as well as Julie Le Breton and Patrick Hivon...

... the latter of whom recently caught my eye in the flick Babysitter -- a movie I couldn't stand, but he caught my eye anyway -- which happened to be directed by and starred Monia Chokri, who was the star of a couple of Dolan's earlier films (Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways, that is). Who'd have thought the Quebecois Film Industry so incestuous, har har. Anyway the series will be premiering on Canal+ in January so we'll have to wait and see when the U.S. gets it, but there is now a trailer!

I'm not even sure if I noticed Pier-Gabriel in there? The series is set in two different time periods (in the 1990s and in 2019) and he's apparently in the flashback portion; he's also only in a single episode, so who knows how much. But seeing his name in the cast-list brought me joy anyway, and I'm sure Dolan will play up his prettiness when he's got him in front of his lens at least; Xavier is very good at that. Until then though I went and gathered up some photos of Pier-Gabriel that have never been posted here, and that's how we will spend this morning! Hit the jump and enjoy...

Happy John Waters List Day!

Tis the happiest time of the year, when our dad John Waters releases his Top 10 Movies list for Art Forum! You can see the list right here -- as per usual it's a mix of high and low low low brow, with perfectly Waters-ian compatriots like Leos Carax, Bruno Dumont, Gaspar Noé, and Bruce La Bruce all making appearances. And as per usual there are titles included that I've never even heard of (I think that final entry on his list he probably got sent a personalized screener from the director) and ones that I hate -- I just couldn't with Annette (here's my review) but it doesn't surprise me at all that John liked it. It seems his taste...

Felix Maritaud Two Times

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The Twins Are Coming

It's been about thirteen months since I first heard tell of Bruce Labruce's "twincest epic" Saint-Narcisse, when it was announced to screen at last year's Venice film fest -- I've been keeping up with the movie ever since (I have posted many a photo) and yesterday we finally, finally got a U.S. release date! It's dropping on September 17th -- it will play at the Quad Cinema here in NYC and otherwise it will be on VOD for those of you unlucky millions not in NYC. That's a new poster up top to go along with the announcement, but we still don't have a trailer. I guess I'll do another post when we do! Until then enjoy these two photos of the film's lovely leading man Félix-Antoine Duval -- doubled for the twin thing!

Let Me Look At You

Finally some news on the US release of queer provocateur Bruce LaBruce's forthcoming (or should I say forthcumming, haha sigh) twincest epic called Saint-Narcisse, which we told you about back when it screened at Venice last fall. It's not an actual release date yet, mind you, but it is news that the great folks at Film Movement have picked it up for U.S. distribution. So at least it's getting distributed here. You never know these days. Anyway hopefully they'll drop it within the next couple of months! I passed impatient months ago.

Do You See What I See

That there is the standing-to-attention poster for Bruce LaBruce's forthcoming twincest epic Saint-Narcisse, which will be premiering at the Venice Film Fest... well any day now, I guess. I saw film people tweeting they are in Venice for Venice so I guess Venice is imminent. It's the Closing Night Film of one of the sections (don't ask me to sort of the sections of a film festival I am not attending), which I told you about here along with some images. This movie, y'all, looks really gay (not that that's surprising, under Bruce's eye) and we are here for it. Just hope we get to be here for it, as in here where I am so I can see it, before the world ends, which is a perfectly reasonable fear in 2020 after all.

Great Shoes, Beautiful Shoes

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Have any of you watched Luca Guadagnino's short film for the fashion house Valentino called The Staggering Girl, which stars Julianne Moore and Mia Goth and Kiki Layne and Kyle Maclachlan? It is still on MUBI if you haven't, although you should temper your expectations as it is very much half an hour of Great Gowns, Beautiful Gowns -- lots of style, lots of fabric blowing in wind machines and rich people laying around in shadows, but not a whole lot of narrative. Then again maybe those are your expectations, the height of them, in which case I say you'll be satisfied! I personally was hoping for more of substance, with that cast and director, but it's certainly lovely to look at. 

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Anyway I was reminded of it when I read today's news that Luca has a fashion doc premiering at Venice this fall -- called Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams, it's about you guessed it the head of the Italian shoe-house Ferragamo, and that there up above is the first clip from it, featuring Martin Scorsese of all people. Sure, let's hear Scorsese talk loafers, why not. Listen I am not knocking Luca for making this -- dude is going to have free clothes for life at this rate. No wonder he can toss off expensive green Gucci jackets to Sufjan Stevens without a care in the world. You can see more of what will be premiering at Venice over here, including Bruce LaBruce's latest which we told you of last week...

Oh and here's another new photo from Bruce LaBruce's upcoming twincest epic Saint-Narcisse, via his Insta pic.twitter.com/FTdVbUEv0Z

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) July 27, 2020

Pics of the Day

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The Venice Film Festival is apparently still planning on having an in-person festival in September, and they've just announced the films that will be screening in the Venice Day section of the fest -- what caught our eye, why we care at all (since we obviously ain't going), is that the Closing Night Film of that section will be gay punk provocateur Bruce La Bruce's new movie called Saint-Narcisse. Here's how they describe the plot:

"... set in 1972 Canada, [Saint-Narcisse] follows Dominic, a handsome narcissistic young man who discovers the existence of his twin brother, living in a remote monastery lead by a depraved priest. The pic is considered LaBruce’s most ambitious work to date. His Gerontophilia played at Venice in 2013."

Weirdly that plot description that Venice gives is almost totally different from the one on IMDb, besides the kernel of the idea of a "young man" looking for lost relatives in the middle of nowhere --here's how IMDb describes the movie:

"When a young man who thought his mother was dead discovers that she may still be alive, he goes on a quest to find her. His journey takes him to a remote cabin in the woods where his mother lives in exile with a mysterious young woman."

I suspect all of these things are true of the plot -- it's just funny how one frames it as far less filthy an experience than the other. IMDb is like "A touching story of family reunited..." while Venice is all like "Getcha Twincest here!!!"

Time To Strap Our Tom of Finland On

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I try to keep MNPP mainstream-ish legits (give or take all my gratuitous gay nonsense) and so I always get a little tense when forced to talk Actual Porn here -- it's a thin line to walk. But the line between Pornography and The Cinema has always been fluid (ha, see what I did there) and it's about to get real moist indeed as Men.com (I know you know them, don't pretend) has teamed up with the Tom of Finland Foundation to create several episodes around their brand, including one by -- and now you'll see why I'm here talking about this -- Bruce La Bruce. BLB is the one that's always forcing my hand on this subject! So to speak.
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(Sidenote: I didn't realize the above, BLB's filthy hysterical tribute to Andy Warhol -- and make sure you have your volume turned WAY WAY UP for it -- had made its way online; I'd just mentioned that last week.) But as with any gay man of I think any age Tom of Finland holds a place in my heart -- is that my heart; I am always getting my parts confused -- and I was terrifically disappointed by the weirdly sexless 2017 biopic about the famed erotic artist. A short film of pornographic proportions by Bruce La Bruce will surely right that wrong! BLB isn't the only filmmaker on hand -- he's just the only one of some renown. Others on hand include Cory Krueckeberg, Terry Miller (aka Dan Savage's husband), Matt Lambert, and Casey Spooner formerly of Fischerspooner and that recent feud with Madonna over a songwriting credit. (This is the gayest paragraph I have ever written on this site and lord knows I have written some gay shit.)

The first episode stars Instagram Star turned Adult Performer Matthew Camp (that's him in costume to the right) and it will hit on December 13th -- new episodes will be released once a month from there on. I'm not sure when Bruce La Bruce's specific episode airs, the press release doesn't specify, but I'll try to keep everyone informed... if I can manage to use my hands for typing at that point, I mean.
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Pic of the Day

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Portrait of John Waters walking by me in the MOMA lobby #johnwaters #film #nyc

A post shared by Jason Adams (@jasonaadams) on Nov 25, 2019 at 5:26pm PST

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I've had my picture taken with John Waters before but I'm almost more thrilled by that photo I took of him at MoMA last night because one senses half a sneer in it, as if he's thinking, "Who's this fucker taking my picture without permission?" And to be genuinely sneered at by John Waters is TO LIVE. I have LIVED. If a bus runs me over this afternoon tell everyone you know, HE FUCKING LIVED. 

John and I were at MoMA hate-fucking each other with our eyes for a screening of 30/30 Vision: 3 Decades of Strand Releasing, which is a collection of 30 short films by prominent filmmakers who've worked with the Strand Releasing film distributor, who I'm sure you're aware of, especially if you're a gay man. I mean...

... how many of us came of age thanks to that little poof of smoke? Strand turns 30 this year and they celebrated with this collection, which included shorts by Mr. Waters, Gregg Araki, Cindy fucking Sherman, Bruce La Bruce -- whose short was called "Homage to Blowjob" and was a static shot of some guy's face as BLB himself (or presumably since he was credited) loudly, and I do mean loudly, choked on the guy's dick out of frame; for anyone who's enjoying the arty simplicity of Warhol's original "Blowjob" Bruce's valiantly obscene update was a terrific in-joke. The list goes on and on, see all the filmmakers included here, and below's a photo of some of the ones who showed up to the screening last night.

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Now THAT’s a Fam! Lulu, John, Ira, Roddy, Elizabeth, JCM, Tom, Brian, Rose, Lynn, Brady, Aggie!! And of course - Marcus and Jon. Happy 30th @strandreleasing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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The Misandrists in 250 Words or Less

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A good title for a review of Bruce La Bruce's new movie The Misandrists would definitely be "¡Vulva la Revolución!" -- and if anybody wants to steal that I offer it freely, in the spirit of the film's brutal anti-capitalist streak. So what do I say about The Misandrists? Have you seen a Bruce La Bruce movie before? Not the last one of his that I reviewed here, the one called Gerontophilia, though - that one sticks out among his work like Mysterious Skin sort of sticks out among Gregg Araki's work, in that those ones managed to twist their makers revolutionary weirdness into more mainstream packaging for a hot minute.

Araki was back to his old tricks soon enough with the likes of Kaboom and here The Misandrists feels like vintage Bruce La Bruce again, mixing up pornography and violence with art-school screeching - I say "screeching" with love in my heart, I truly do. Who else would make a movie about a cult of lesbian terrorists posing as a Catholic School reformatory, splicing actual footage of gender reassignment surgery in between gauzily shot pillow fight trysts? The world is richer and stranger with Bruce making these things in it - cherish every frame or, to borrow a phrase from the Pope of Filth himself, go fuck yourself.
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The Misandrists is opening here in NYC this weekend and you can actually see Bruce and some of the film's cast for a Q&A at a couple of screenings... which as a concept is hysterically funny once you've seen the film's fourth-wall-busting final scene; believe you me. I can only imagine that experience. Go do it and report back to me...
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Slash My Gay Stuff To Ribbons

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When introducing the trailer for the new french art-slasher Knife + Heart over at Vulture today our pal Kyle asked the question "Have you ever imagined what it might be like if Pedro Almodóvar directed a retro slasher film with a ton of queer content and some seriously wonderful costumes" and I think he was being rhetorical... but I totally have imagined that. Many times!
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KNIFE + HEART (UN COUTEAU DANS LE CŒUR) A film by Yann Gonzalez Festival de Cannes - Official Selection - Competition World Premiere - Today 10 PM #uncouteaudanslecoeur #knife+heart #yanngonzalez #festivaldecannes2018 #ellaherme #felixmaritaud #jeremybenkemoun #vanessaparadis #katemoran #nicolasmaury #m83

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Anyway it's one of those semi-awkward moments when your porn invades your non-porn life -- Pierre Emö, the nicely-mustached fellow seen above, is featured in the trailer and you might recognize him from Bruce La Bruce's most recent X-rated project (in collaboration with CockyBoys) called It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... or maybe you just follow Pierre on his Instagram already (lord knows I did) - either way he's just one of the pretty young things whose futures don't look so bright in the trailer for this movie, which I will share with you now.
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I wonder how far this movie's going to go, what with having actors with legit porn on their resumes... the film is premiering at Cannes today so I guess we'll hear soon. It was directed by Yann Gonzalez and stars Vanessa Paradis, all of which you know if you just watched that trailer. Anyway I don't think I've seen anything so in my wheelhouse... since earlier today when I posted about that Shirley Jackson movie at least! This is quite the day, you guys.

Free Idea of the Day

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I HAVE AN IDEA
HIRE BRUCE LA BRUCE
AND MAKE THE NEW HAN SOLO MOVIE GAY PORN
YOU'RE WELCOME pic.twitter.com/2QXPZXPbnU

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 21, 2017

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Hey Hollywood, I am full of 'em.

Send me a note, we'll talk.

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I Am Link

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--- Yes Sir Alex Sir - Picture this: You're a soldier and Alexander Skarsgard is your squad leader. Basically you'd do any horrible thing he told you to do if he let promised you a barracks cuddle afterwards right? Well save the barracks cuddle thing (probably) that's the plot of The Kill Team, a movie that's just been announced that's adapting the documentary of the same name. And yes this being based on a real-life doc about soldiers doing horrific things to people really dampens the sexiness quotient. It's still Alexander in uniform. It can't be totally dampened.

--- Camp California - Even though I've posted about the movie a couple of times I still haven't seen the infamous flop Moment By Moment, which tried to pass off a romance between Lily Tomlin and John Travolta, much to my chagrin. And my chagrin just got chagrinnier, because writer-director Bruce La Bruce just wrote up a terrific piece on the film as intentional camp a la Sirk, and now I cannot put it off any longer. There was a copy floating around the internet recently (the film's long been buried) so I'm on it.

--- Sex Them Bots - When I posted those pictures of James Marsden naked on Westworld the other day I asked y'all if you were watching the show and it seems like y'all are, whioch is good, it's worth watching and discussing, I think - and I like that I've seen a lot of questioning this week going on about the sexuality of the male robots, and if the show intends to gay itself at any point, because these questions plague me too. This piece at Fusion on this subject is pretty keen on the subject. I don't understand how the James Marsden Robot isn't getting fucked every second he's, you know, turned on.

--- World War Buffy - Joss Whedon has finally opened his yap about what he's working on! I'm glad to know he's working on something, anything, honestly, and not just playing Shakespeare with Amy Acker in his backyard all day long. But this, via this interview with him at Complex, sounds pretty damned exciting!

"I'm in the middle of a screenplay that I am extremely passionate about, and I am going to be extremely passionate about it again on November 9. It’s definitely a departure from the things that I’m known for. It's as dark as anything I've ever written... I just said, "OK, id, your turn." I would write scenes and be like, "Oh this is great! I shouldn’t be allowed near people." It’s a historical fiction slash horror movie about a time when the world was going insane, World War II."

--- Shrinkage For Shackleton - Many a Brit fella has played Sir Ernest Shackleton, famous Antarctic explorer, in small TV projects - fellas like Derek Jacobi and Kenneth Branagh. But somehow there's never been a big movie about the man, and that's about to change - Tom Hardy is set to play him in a movie from the writer of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I'm sure Shackleton's adventures will be veddy cinematic and all but it's depressing to think of Tom Hardy buried under all those winter clothes. But hey it's not like we've never seen Tom Hardy roll around butt-naked in the snow before, so hope lives!

--- Save Crake - Westworld out of the way, what the heck are the dopes at HBO thinking: Darren Aronofsky says that the studio's not making his series MaddAddam, based on Margert Atwood's brilliant trilogy of books that began with Oryx & Crake. Aronofsky says he's not giving up though and he's hoping some other studio will snap up the project, and I second third and fourth that shit. Hey Netflix, you've got your next great big thing right here! One thing I didn't know about the project - the scripts were written by Joss Whedon's sister-in-law Eliza Clark. She's worked on Animal Kingdom & Extant previously. I wanna go to the Whedon house for Thanksgiving!

--- Have Patients - Did you see the picture of The English Patient stars Kristen Scott Thomas & Juliette Binoche & Ralph Fiennes at a 20th anniversary screening in Rome this past weekend? Good grief it's like all of heaven stuffed into a couple of inches - it is ravishing, ravishment, ravishillisimo, so forth. I know I was watching the Oscars before 1996 but it's Binoche's win that's my most vivid Oscar memory from youth. I was transfixed by her immediately, in her dramatic crimson velvet dress. And I never let go!

---  And Finally I hadn't heard anything about this out of Toronto but it sounds perfect for Halloween - Ruth Wilson stars in I am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (that's a great title), which is about a young nurse who goes to an isolated house to care for an ailing horror writer (a character based on Shirley Jackson!) played by Paula "The Stepford Wives!" Prentiss, when things start going bump. I really like Ruth Wilson and I welcome the opportunity to watch her in something that's not The Affair, which i had to stop watching because I can't stand Dominic West on that show. Anyway the movie is being dropped on October 28th on Netflix, and below's the trailer. I hope it's spooky!
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