Last week, we also saw Eric Rohmer's L'Amour l'apr�s-midi, (Chloe in the Afternoon; 1972). I didn't think I'd like it, but it was watchable despite the trademark talkniness.

Here's another one for the gays: we're halfway through the serial Niezi, based on the Bai Xian-yong novel (translated as Crystal Boys by Howard Goldblatt). The series often seems interminable. If gay-ness were catching, you think I'd get it from all these gay movies. And as Lileks says,

Does gay marriage threaten heterosexual marriage? Of course! Who knows how many women woke last week to find notes on the kitchen table: "Dearest Wife, now that homosexual sodomy is legal in Texas, I have to go try it. Took the cell phone. Farewell."

(link via Instapundit)