EVENT: In the book Love & Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships David Levy goes where no man has gone before. Hopefully. From the book's description: "Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner.From a leading expert in artificial intelligence comes an eye-opening, superbly argued book that explores a new level of human intimacy and relationships—with robots." We're not even ready to see Lars and......

This week at the movies, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that the new releases are seriously scrapping the bottom of the quality bucket. How many weeks now has it been that we've had this complaint? The good news is that, as per usual, there's load of other fascinating movie related events In New York to sink your teeth into with relish. Someday soon someone should tally up the release record......

The holidays are upon us. Tomorrow sees the release of two of the more eagerly awaited films of the season, and we haven't even hit Thanksgiving yet! We've been hearing fantastic things about the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line. It wowed audiences at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and now critics are talking about Joaquin Phoenix's performance as they did last year about Jamie Foxx. One huge difference: Foxx lip-synced everything in Ray;......

Gothamist fought the stinking heat Tuesday to...sit in only marginally less heat at Florence Gould Hall (we sat among people who did not bring the smell of the 6 train, but there was no AC). The gracious staff of the French Institute/ Allaince Francaise were very accomodating, though, and kept things on-topic with the personalities and finesse of Audrey Saunders of Bemelmans(The Morning News included Bemelman's in a great, if somewhat dated, article about hotel......

Sisters are doing it for themselves. And when they're as beautiful and fascinating as Catherine Deneuve and Francoise Dorléac, who's going to complain? In their continuing series devoted to the iconic French actresses and sisters, the French Institute screens this evening Agnès Varda's The Young Girls Turn 25, a tribute to The Young Girls of Rochefort made to celebrate the film's silver anniversary in 1993. Like the '60s pop musical fantasia the Umbrellas of Cherbourg,......