Quick break from the slackering spree of SXSW Film coverage to drop a hot link to my brief feature on Olivier Assayas’s Boarding Gate, which ran in today’s New York Sun. “We were like caged animals …” sez Asia Argento, of a 25(!)-minute scene with co-star Michael Madsen that’s as visceral and knotted as you’d hope from such a pair of bad-asses. Love will tear us apart, again? No it won’t. Love will blow your brains out. Q&As with Assasyas and Madsen en route. And listen out for a loop from Fripp/Eno’s No Pussyfooting. Opens in NYC on Friday.

