I figure I'd also put in my list of top 20 films for the year 2009... The rankings obviously are approximate. If I were to re-order these films tomorrow, it quite probably would be different.

20. HOTEL WOODSTOCK, Director Ang Lee; USA; trailer
19. SIN NOMBRE, dir. Cary Fukunaga; USA, Mexico; revolver trailer; diaphanna trailer (because it's a lot ( Read more... )

I had my dissertation presentation yesterday which went rather well. This was a bit unexpected because one of the people on the jury was a notorious knit-picker and we all expected him to be difficult and complain.

We then went out a bar on the Butte aux Cailles and after about 7 (I can't remember the exact number) infused rums and a few pints ( Read more... )

It's been three days and I've started becoming slack again.

I spent the weekend "catching up". I met up with the Delia-Martin-Cécile gang on Saturday. We had dinner at the Bastringue, for old times sake. In France, going out for a meal often involves leaving vegetarianism back at home. But the evening was good nevertheless - good company, good ( Read more... )

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I actually wanted to go to see Marcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine as a part of Musée d'Orsay's exhibition on the 1920s, or les années folles as they call them here. But in the end it got too late and I decided that would be best to go to Pedro Costa's "En Avant Jeunesse" at 5.15 p.m. But for some reason I thought that it was 5.45 p.m. and so I go there ( Read more... )

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The week has been short and uneventful, apart from the fact that work as been slightly less annoying. I managed to see 3 films.

On Sunday, after we couldn’t get into the 19th Century pornographic literature exhibition at the BnF, we went to the adjacent MK2 Bibliothèque to see Kusturica's latest burlesque extravaganza - "Promets-Moi (Promise Me ( Read more... )

I went to see "Avant que j'oublie" yesterday - as the films I wanted to see this week, are sitting on some dusty shelf somewhere. I don't know what to think about this film. I didn't dislike it, but with Jacques Nolot, for every moment of profoundness there are about 20 minutes of tediousness to sit through. It's the kind of film I would have ( Read more... )

Films of the week:

( Zodiac )