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Law & Order: Svu is taking on The Bachelor, but that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the "Assaulting Reality" episode. Things kick off when Rollins (Kelli Giddish) and Carisi (Peter Scanavino) are watching Heart's Desire: New York when a contestant's steamy night with the bachelor is shown on live TV…except she doesn't remember it. "Wait, I don't remember any of this," she says. "…I'm a virgin, I would never have slept with him. Did Ryan rape me?" Yikes. Guest stars include The Secret World of Alex Mack and 10 Things I Hate About You star Larisa Oleynik as a producer on the fake reality show, Michael Gross of Family Ties, Just...

Final paintings, final books, and final films are often read into because of their terminating chronology. Did the artist know they were close to death? How is that shown in the art? When he died in 1968, Carl Dreyer had many projects lined up, including Medea and Jesus of Nazareth, which he had been preparing and researching for years, to the point of learning Hebrew. His last films, Ordet in 1955 and Gertrud in 1964, embody the exacting visual style he forged during his fifty-five-year career—a style he explicated in short essays written ten and twenty years before Gertrud. Being a director who worked with and without sound, we should trust Dreyer when he says film “first and foremost directs itself to the eye, and that the picture far, far more easily than the spoken word penetrates deeply into a spectator’s consciousness.”1 Gerturd is as much about the eponymous character's face...