Yeah, I never got why the parents were killing themselves and their kids. Horrible, one of Hanake's rapes of the viewer. Code Unknown is almost too conscious a puzzler, but it is one.

Peña has been wonderful at the FSLC events -- even as an interpreter Spanish-English (and he can do French too if absolutely necessary). Too bad he is leaving, and that's why they're honoring him this time at the NYFF I assume. I don't know who can replace him. Nobody.

He is pushing a bit his agenda saying L.A. is supplanting Asian film, I agree, though both Korean and Japanese have faltered lately, Japanese fof some time, Korean lately. Taiwanese slowing down too, mabey Hong Kong. Or maybe; I don't really know. I'd say Asian cinema is a pretty large field. I have really enjoyed L.A. film the last 15 years or so, but it has not supplanted Asian in my admiration.