Monika’s Pensieve

I’ve been looking through lots of best kiss movie lists and once again have come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with me :] I think I’m even more out of touch with other human beings in my kissing scene preferences than in nude scene preferences…
The Criteria:

Two or more beings of some sort [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
Basically, December sucks. There’s nothing that I really want to see and even the maybe list below is very short.
And I’ve changed my film spotting formatting yet again, but only very slightly ;)
Other Films for Consideration

You Again (USA, 2010)
Sigourney Weaver and Jamie Lee Curtis seem like a really explosive comedic coupling (I [...]

I’m ditching my film spotting rating. It adds complexity rather than clarity. What I do want to stay with though is the practice of listing films that I’m in two minds about seeing (or in other words I’d probably see the film if a friend wanted to and/or if there was nothing else interesting [...]

{FILM SPOTTING}
Even more format changes ;-P Am still using the rating system from last month, but have foregone 0 and -1. Feels like overkill. Am staying with the +0.5 rating though, at least for the moment.
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Tetro (USA/Italy/Spain/Argentina, [...]

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Double Take (Belgium/Germany/Netherlands, 2009)
Seen: Friday, 30th April 2010 (cinema)
Runtime: 80′
Director: Johan Grimonprez
Production House: Zap-O-Matik, Nikovantastic Film, Volya Films
Plot: A strange collage of Hitchcock, Hitchcock’s look-a-like Ron Burrage and the cold war period.
Trailer

Rating: -0 (Ok)
Impressions In Short
Interesting and quirky, but I was a bit disappointed. I hoped it would be funnier.
More About the Film
I think [...]

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Presque rien (France/Belgium, 2000)
Seen: Thursday, 18th March 2010 (cinema, LGBT retrospective)
Runtime: 100′
Director: Sébastien Lifshitz
Cast: Jérémie Elka?m, Stéphane Rideau
Production House: Lancelot Films, Man's Films, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), arte France Cinéma
Plot: (from imdb)
Mathieu, 18, spends the summer at his mother’s summer house, in Brittany. On the beach, he meets Cédric, a boy his age. [...]

My April film spotting is well on time at least ;)
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The Shock Doctrine (UK, 2009)
Release Date (Poland): 16th April 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 9th February 2009
Runtime: 90′
Director: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
Production House: Renegade Pictures, Revolution Films
Plot: (from imdb)
An investigation of “disaster capitalism”, based on Naomi Klein’s proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on natural disasters, war [...]

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Séraphine (France/Belgium, 2008)
Seen: Monday, 9th November 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 125′
Director: Martin Provost
Cast: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur
Production House: TS Productions, Climax Films, Région Ile-de-France, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Angoa-Agicoa, Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Communauté française de Belgique, France 3 Cinéma, La Banque postale Image, Le Tax Shelter du Gouvernement [...]

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The Accidental Husband (UK/USA, 2008)
Release Date (Poland): 2nd October 2009 (Kino Świat)
Release Date (worldwide): 13th February 2008
Runtime: 90′
Director: Griffin Dunne
Cast: Uma Thurman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Colin Firth, Isabella Rossellini
Production House: Blumhouse Productions, Team Todd, Yari Film Group (YFG)
Plot: (from imdb)
When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with [...]

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White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (Belgium/Australia/Canada/Denmark/Finland/France/Germany/Netherlands/UK, 2003)
Seen: Monday, 20th April 2009 (cinema, Afrykamera festival)
Runtime: 84′
Director: Peter Bate
Production House: Périscope Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Arte, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT), Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Yleisradio (YLE), History Television, SBS Television, Danmarks Radio (DR)
Plot: (from [...]