Three colours Bleu / Blanc / Rouge: classics I hadn’t seen in a long time. It’s arthouse cinema, and the DVD supplements help a lot for people who aren’t necessary into that kind of stuff up front. Rouge is probably the most accessible.

Constantine - nowhere near as bad as many people said it was. More enjoyable than the superman film.

Kikujiro - it’s the third time I watch this film, saw it once at the cinema and twice on DVD. I just like it. It’s just surreal enough, and touching.

Broken Flowers - great acting. Just a quirky slice of life, and you keep expecting some coincidence to happen and resolve things, but of course it doesn’t. Shows how conditioned we are from a certain kind of cinema and TV to think that everything that happens is relevant, that if you bump into one person at the beginning of a film they’ll reemerge at the end and there’ll have been a reason all along… An indie arthouse film with big actors in it. But it’s not a film for someone who can’t cope with films that don’t have a strong plot and message.

Music and Lyrics - Finally a good romantic comedy. It is well written, acidic in many places, and has many great funny ideas. And the film intro is a gem.

Cars - predictable but very very fun

An inconvenient truth - i thought i didnt really need to see it, since I am already a convinced green… but i watched it to make some other people see it, and what a powerfully delivered message it it. Should be compulsory viewing.

Twilight Samurai - highly recommended. Not your “heroic” samurai film, but more a real life chronicle of what life was. It makes you care about all these people even though, to us, they are stuck in this incredibly alien structured world.

Kontroll - a surreal film in the Budapest subway. I’m still not sure how to interpret it, but it was still a nice one to see

Superman Returns - The film industry should give more credit to scriptwriters. This has quite good actors, huge budgets, nice production design - but if the writing is bad, it’s all for nothing. I thought the plot and the dialogues were so bad it was incredible at times.

Mission Impossible 3 - competent

The Cuckoo - an interesting film in 3 languages about 3 people who get stuck together in the tundra (or whatever they call it up there in finland). A russian soldier, a finn on the german side, and a local native woman. It is quite different from anything I have seen this year even though the theme is quite like “no man’s land”. I thought the film was really good except for one scene (the fight with death) which should have been cut in half.