![Screening Log: Weekend of 16 December 2011
1. Remaining +/- half of Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Kinatay (2009, Brillante Mendoza)
3. Don’t Look Back (2009, Marina de Van) Holy crap was this disappointing. I mean, I had been warned, but still. Spent the first hour thinking it wasn’t that bad — de Van (who made the unsparingly sickly In My Skin) is clearly one of the go-to people on body horror horrors, and there’s some fun Polanski-esque mindfucks. (Though the effect that crams Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci’s face onto one visage is something even the best f/x team couldn’t make laughable.) And then around the hour mark I was all like, “Ohhhhhhhhhhh.” Jesus. [Netflix Instant]
4. Accident (2009, Cheang Pou-Soi)
5. /Viridiana/ (1961, Luis Buñuel) [repertory screening]
6. Scream 4 (2011, Wes Craven) Opening is enjoyably pissy and angry; ditto the ending. Middle rote boilerplate slasher fodder bullshit. Still, I’d rank it overall above Scream 2, although it has nothing like that one’s highmark set pieces. [DVD]
7. Like You Know It All (2009, Hong Sang-soo) Even Hong isn’t being overtly awesome, I still find him hugely pleasant (in a plowing-the-dark-side-of-humanity way, natch). Like a lot of his films, at the very least this is appealingly Rohmeresque, and enjoyable because of the ramble.
8. Mission: Impossible - Money Never Sleeps (2011, Brad Bird) I’m not as stoked as this one’s biggest cheerleaders, but there’s no denying that fun set pieces are fun set pieces. Agree that it peaks in Dubai, but that climax, in that insane garage, was worthy of Pixar; reminded me the one in Toy Story 2, to be exact. I don’t care about Ethan Hunt either, but that personal shit was kept for the denouement, which is considerate. [theatrical screening, in IMAX]
9. Tuesday, After Christmas (2010, Radu Muntean)
10. Attack the Block (2011, Joe Cornish) Fine. [DVD]
11. /Rubber/ (2011, Quentin Dupeiux) Just making sure. [Netflix Instant]
Yes, I did nothing but watch movies all weekend. Don’t we have fun.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwh0cy2mvE1qzoio3o1_500.jpg)
Screening Log: Weekend of 16 December 2011
1. Remaining +/- half of Face (2009, Tsai Ming-liang)
2. Kinatay (2009, Brillante Mendoza)
3. Don’t Look Back (2009, Marina de Van) Holy crap was this disappointing. I mean, I had been warned, but still. Spent the first hour thinking it wasn’t that bad — de Van (who made the unsparingly sickly In My Skin) is clearly one of the go-to people on body horror horrors, and there’s some fun Polanski-esque mindfucks. (Though the effect that crams Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci’s face onto one visage is something even the best f/x team couldn’t make laughable.) And then around the hour mark I was all like, “Ohhhhhhhhhhh.” Jesus. [Netflix Instant]
4. Accident (2009, Cheang Pou-Soi)
5. /Viridiana/ (1961, Luis Buñuel) [repertory screening]
6. Scream 4 (2011, Wes Craven) Opening is enjoyably pissy and angry; ditto the ending. Middle rote boilerplate slasher fodder bullshit. Still, I’d rank it overall above Scream 2, although it has nothing like that one’s highmark set pieces. [DVD]
7. Like You Know It All (2009, Hong Sang-soo) Even Hong isn’t being overtly awesome, I still find him hugely pleasant (in a plowing-the-dark-side-of-humanity way, natch). Like a lot of his films, at the very least this is appealingly Rohmeresque, and enjoyable because of the ramble.
8. Mission: Impossible - Money Never Sleeps (2011, Brad Bird) I’m not as stoked as this one’s biggest cheerleaders, but there’s no denying that fun set pieces are fun set pieces. Agree that it peaks in Dubai, but that climax, in that insane garage, was worthy of Pixar; reminded me the one in Toy Story 2, to be exact. I don’t care about Ethan Hunt either, but that personal shit was kept for the denouement, which is considerate. [theatrical screening, in IMAX]
9. Tuesday, After Christmas (2010, Radu Muntean)
10. Attack the Block (2011, Joe Cornish) Fine. [DVD]
11. /Rubber/ (2011, Quentin Dupeiux) Just making sure. [Netflix Instant]
Yes, I did nothing but watch movies all weekend. Don’t we have fun.
