Essential Jacques Demy Bd, Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Mamoru Hosoda Guest editor Aimee Bender selected

Guest editor Aimee Bender selected her story "Shit Cassandra Saw

I am a software engineer

Now the assistant curator of Egyptology for the Metropolitan Museum of Art

but who surprises everyone by risking everything to defend a friend accused of murder-and proving his friend's innocence

she began writing songs that stripped away the masks and revealed the complex and often contradictory realities behind them

Essential Jacques Demy Bd, Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Mamoru Hosoda Guest editor Aimee Bender selectedFrench director Jacques Demy didn't just make movies he created an entire cinematic world. Demy launched his glorious feature filmmaking career in the sixties, a decade of astonishing invention in his national cinema. He stood out from the crowd of his fellow New Wavers, however, by filtering his self conscious formalism through deeply emotional storytelling. Fate and coincidence, doomed love, and storybook romance surface throughout his films, many