In the last scene of Buñuel’s perverse 1967 classic, Belle
de Jour, as tears roll down the husband’s face and the wife walks
to the window and the city outside has transformed into her
horse-drawn-carriage bondage fantasy, you have to wonder what
the husband would say if the injuries he sustained from his wife’s
gun-wielding john hadn’t turned him into a mute. (Northwest Film
Forum, 1515 12th Ave, 329-2629. 7 and 9:15 pm, $5–$8.50.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...