Petulia

A very strange, kooky film, from Richard Lester, amazingly photographed by Nicholas Roeg, the first half is very goodd, then it gets loosers, must be the hippy environment of the time in SF. Goerge C Scott and Julie Christie are great, and Chamberlain is spooky.

Marked Woman

With Betty Davies and Bogart in a supporting role, big drama with some mean mobster. Slow paced and nothing special to report, in fact fell asleep.

Beyond valley of the dolls

A weird trashy film from Russ Meyer, scripted rather poorly by Roger Ebert, with lots of vivid colours (I wouldn't be surprised if Meyer had seen some Mario Bava films). It starts as a light comedy, turns much darker and ends up with a big moral message. Not as good as I remembered it.

Equinox

Less good than the Murren original version. harris made it a bit more polished and pro, re-editing it and adding a cop, but it's less fun, mostly as the very bad lines at the beginning have been removed.

The Blade

Big disappointment. I thought it was a mess visually and disliked immensely the cheesy voice over. I was expecting so much more i guess, but it is far from being Tsui Hark's masterpiece.

Equinox ... A journey into the supernatural

The rare original cut from 1967 from Dennis Muren (Star Wars etc), has some interesting bits, an influence on Evil Dead, and some fun stop motion effects. Terrible acting though all around.

Pond way

Cunnigham, Eno and a painting by Lichtenstein, pretty abstract and minimal choregraphy with dancers jumping around. Good.

The Interpreter

A sleek looking film thanks to darius Khonji's photography, but a crap script with a pointless story. Kidman and Penn are completely incredible, too long, ultimately a very annoying film.

Dazed and Confused

Wicked! Very funny, well written with great characters and acting, cool 70s rock tunes, beer and spliffs, chicks, clothes and big 70s cars.

Voyage in Italy

Watched it at the same time as reading Tag Gallagher's massive and very interesting biography of Rosselini. Modern cinema at its best, deceptively simple and raw. I was less touched by the ending this time as i was the first time i saw it many years ago. Still a masterpiece.

La Marquise d'O

A historic Rohmer in German, with quite a weird story, not a great deal happens, it is is quite tight and unsual.

Twenty Four Eyes

A nice touching story from Keisuke Kinoshita, but a bit too long and kind of a bit too sad.

The idiot

Kurosawa adapts Dostoevsky in snowy Hokkaido. Superb photography, faithful adaptation even though it was butchered by Shochiku and a great smallish part for Setsuko Hara.