Casey Affleck insists Joaquin Phoenix documentary is the real thing

It’s official: Joaquin Phoenix’s boorish rapper shtick was the real McCoy, says Casey Affleck, the director of the documentary (mockumentary?), I’m Still Here, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival yesterday. “I can tell you that there is no hoax,” Affleck said at a press conference after the screening, where he was flustered by repeated questions about the film’s legitimacy. “That never even entered into my consciousness until other people began to talk about the movie.”