SCREENING LOG - 10/16/2006-10/22/2006

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my camera phone makes Pusan look like a Edward Hopper painting...

...and it makes the view outside my hotel room look like a Godzilla model set

on the day I visited Seoul, I spotted no monsters lurking in the Han river

From the Pusan International Film Festival:

Summer Palace (2006, Lou Ye)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0794374/
yes (YES for pre-Tiananmen scenes, mixed for post-Tiananment scenes, very very mixed for Tiananmen sequence)

Poison Friends (2006, Emmanuel Bordieu)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814656/
yes

Luxury Car (2006, Wang Chao)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0810954/
yes

Opera Jawa (2006, Garin Nugroho)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844742/
YES (#5 for new films seen in 2006 between ARMY OF SHADOWS and PAPRIKA)

4:30 (2005, Royston Tan)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497877/
yes

Before We Fall in Love Again (2006, James Lee)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877327/
mixed

Taxidermia (2006, Grygory Palfi)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410730/
did not finish for fear of incurring permanent nausea

Paprika (2006, Satoshi Kon)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851578/
YES (#8 for 2006 between OPERA JAWA and WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A TRAGEDY IN FOUR ACTS)

The Runner (1985, Amir Naderi)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088992/
did not finish - watched an unsubtitled video but the visuals were strong enough to carry me through nearly half the film until I could no longer discern the plot details

Star Appeal (2004, Cui Zi'en)
not listed on IMDb
yes (#17 for 2004 between LOS MUERTOS and NOTRE MUSIQUE)

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die (2006, Jamshed Usmonov)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0792988/
yes - cheers to my first film seen from Tajikistan

Bamako (2006, Abdherrahme Sissako) second viewing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814666/
yes (#15 for 2006 between LE PONT DES ARTS and FROM THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN)

Ten Canoes (2006, Rolf de Heer)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466399/
yes

Flanders (2006, Bruno Dumont)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450680/
mixed - it's official, Bruno Dumont jumped the shark with TWENTY NINE PALMS

Fast Food Nation (2006, Richard Linklater)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460792/
yes

on flight back home:

Click (2006, Frank Coraci)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389860/
yes - the premise could have been incredible in the hands of a Charlie Kaufman, but Sandler's moral streak is as unexpectedly gripping as his agonized attempts to be serious and funny simultaneously

Akeelah and the Bee (2006, Doug Atchison)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/
yes - sappy as hell but somehow makes up for the racial deficiencies in HALF NELSON

Nacho Libre (2006, Jared Hess)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457510/
did not finish - neither warm nor cold, so I spit it from my mouth

A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater) second viewing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/
a more solid yes (#26 for 2006 between BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN and TRIAD ELECTION)

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