SCREENING LOG - 12/26/2005-1/1/2006

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Samaria / Samaritan Girl (2004, Kim Ki-Duk)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0397619
NO NO NO

Design for Living (1933, Ernst Lubitsch)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023940
TSPDT project #810
yes - The interesting thing about DESIGN FOR LIVING is that what to me looks like unfortunate casting decisions only makes more apparent Lubitsch's skill at direction -- how much he uses gesture and staging to get his effects, so that you could practically plug a mannequin on stage and we'd still be witness to The Touch. But it's too compromised in my view to be top tier Lubitsch.

Crazy English (1999, Zhang Yuan)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210677
no - looked like a 90 minute infomercial to me. All the more disappointing since my students in China were Crazy English fanatics and I would have really appreciated a more probing look at the phenomenon of English learning in China.

Safe Conduct (2002, Bertrand Tavernier)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0269461
mixed

Forty Guns (1957, Samuel Fuller)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050407
YES YES (#4 for 1957 between APARAJITO and TOKYO TWILIGHT)

Happy Together (1997, Wong Kar-wai) second viewing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118845
upgraded from mixed to yes

Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416320
yes (#18 for new films seen in 2005 between SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE and 2046)

Munich (2005, Steven Spielberg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408306
yes

Cinemania (2002, Angela Christieb and Stephen Kijak)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281724
mixed

Hets / Torment (1944, Alf Sjoberg)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036914
yes (#10 for 1944 between LAURA and GOING MY WAY)

Liebelei (1933, Max Ophuls)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024252/
yes

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