del toro talking after a double bill of suspira and toby dammit.

it was life affirming, his casual fannish knowledge of film, his love of the aesthetic of film, his desire for the excessive aesthetics of fairy tales to trump logic, a discussion of scopophillia, of hitchcock and his students argento and de palma, how a bollywood film does this thing, where it just leaves the narrative plot and returns at its lesiure, about bluebeard, about the nature of good and evil as it relates to decadence with a small discussion of the piety and evil of joan of arc's leutitent...it went on for an hour, and i just felt affirmed, profoundly affirmed.

drinks and dinner with andy/jamie and their family.