Hiatus

I've been away for some time; but now I'm back for good. I'm shortly going to post some thoughts on Ordet, which we watched last night, but first of all, here are some of the films that I've watched since I wrote last time:

Wonderful films:

His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Uzak [Distant] (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)
Au hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2005)
Kes (Ken Loach, 1969)
All the President's Men (Alan Pakula, 1976)
Festen (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)

Films that I liked a good deal:

The Wind that Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006)
No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
Sicko (Michael Moore, 2007)

A film that I was loving but was too tired to stop myself falling asleep after 45 minutes:

The Death of Mr Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005)

A film that I don't think is that hot, but which makes me feel great and which I'd gladly spend the last two hours of my film-watching life with:

Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945)

Films that I quite liked:

Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
The Beat that my Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard, 2005)
Stagefright (Alfred Hitchcock, 1950)

Three films that I didn't really like very much at all:

Ratatouille (Brad Bird/Jan Pinkava, 2007)
The Silence (Ingman Bergman, 1963)
The Son's Room (Nanni Moretti, 2001)
O Brother Where Art Thou (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2000)

A film that I didn't like one bit (apart from Max von Sydow):

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)

Pretentious, boring rubbish:

The Consequences of Love (Paolo Sorrentino, 2005)

And a few films that I would have watched whether I liked them or not:

Casino Royale; Bourne, Bourne, and more Bourne

And then, Ordet, which I think may have been the best of all. On which, more soon.