Oh, Fred I sat through Gangs of New York this weekend as well. I wouldn't call it suffering because I was more amazed at how bad it was. I thought maybe Scorsese was sending some sort of coded message through the badness of it all. A wounded Day-Lewis wrapped in an American Flag for no reason. How. . . what? Artsy? no. Profound? No. A mystery. Amazing attention to costume detail, and then to let it fill a screen that looked, during the street scenes, like a documentary about film studios - i.e., bad lighting, artifical in all appearance. Why??? What was the point?? I just don't know. And the hokey speeding up of the film where, e.g. the kid tripped that guy, and a few other "action shots." That was so bad it was no accident. Scorsese wants us to debate his intent? To ponder his genius? I dunno. Must stop thinking about it.

The Stone Boy is not available on DVD, too bad for me. I'll look forward to it.

Tonight I will watch The Man Who Cried. Johnny Depp and Cate Blanchett. The netflix fans decribe it as a failed attempt to make an "art" film, with total failure as the direct result. We'll see.