Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

• Lesbians react to lesbian porn.
• Dennis Mangan discovers a group of traditionalist French women.
• Gucci Little Piggy spotlights some amusing (and somewhat phony looking) images of working mothers.
• Swooshiness! Reflectiveness! Transparency! Please save me from all of it!
• Related.
• What are the chances this isn’t a hoax?
• Reviewing the hook-up apps.
• Criterion has announced that they’ll be bringing out two terrific films by one of my all-time favorite filmmakers, Satyajit Ray.
• Chris Marker’s “The Last Bolshevik” is now available to stream via Amazon. It’s probably my favorite film of the last 30 years.
• Movie Excerpt: Though Mauritz Stiller is rightly known as a Swedish filmmaker, his background was partly Russian. Maybe that’s why this set-piece from his “Gosta Berling’s Saga” feels a bit like something out of a novel by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky: it’s extravagant but also severe, an aria on the theme of romantic desperation. The sequence is beautifully shot and edited; you get a sense of both the vastness of the icy barrens and the lovers’ shared interior narrative, and like the best silent filmmaking it expands and contracts in a way that’s almost musical. Speaking of music, the score heard on this YouTube clip, by Matti Bye, must be one of the best ever produced for the restoration of a silent classic. It’s not hard to understand why Louis Mayer, upon seeing the movie in 1924, immediately brought Greta Garbo and Lars Hanson to Hollywood. Stiller crossed the ocean too, but he didn’t fare too well, despite producing at least one terrific American movie: the 1927 “Hotel Imperial.”