SCREENING LOG -4/05-4/11, 2004

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The American Friend (1977, Wim Wenders)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075675/

yes

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003, Kim Ki-Duk)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374546/

no (nothing more than pseudo-profound tricked-up cultural pornography -- and the treatment of the woman character sure doesn't help alleviate the allegations of the misogyny that runs rampant in Korean cinema)

Enjo (1958, Kon Ichikawa)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051584/

yes

A Night to Remember (1958, Roy Ward Baker)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051994/

yes (compared to James Cameron's sweeping showmanship this is very very stiff upper lip British, but what it lacks in cinematic thrill it makes up for in comprehensive insight into the logistical failures of that fateful night, even if that's not as sexy as Leonardo and Kate boinking in the backseat.)

Elevator To the Gallows (1958, Louis Malle)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051378/

yes (what's French for "precocious"?)

The Lion in Winter (1968, Anthony Harvey)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063227/

mixed (they shoulda called it WHO'S AFRAID OF HENRY AND ELEANOR? and what the hell is this doing in the IMDb top 200??? )

also re-watched parts of MEN IN BLACK (1997, Barry Sonnenfeld) which sustains a YES as well as my vote for the Louis Feuillade Heritage Award for 1997; and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS (1986, Woody Allen) which I hadn't seen since it came out -- the witty jokes about love and religion that I loved as a kid now sadly struck me as bitter middlebrow defeatism, latent symptoms of Allen's case of Bergmanitis. Downgraded from YES to mixed/yes.

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