Jar City: 8.5/10

Jar City: an excellent little Icelandic film, with some amazing photography. Highly recommended!

Planned viewing:

Jar City at the Cinema...report to follow

ON DVD: Miller's Crossing, I hadn't seen this in ages, and it be honest it was better than I remembered it. 8/10

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes...one of best SH movies IMHO (Although I should add I'm not that big a fan of Sherlock Holmes). It's just a shame that so much is missing from the version currently available on DVD, two major scenes have be lost over the years; firstly the story of the upside room and I seem to remember another one where Holmes takes part in rowing at Henley (I should check really, especially as I seem to remember I have a magazine lying around somewhere that covers the film and the missing reels). Perhaps not as good as I remembered it on DVD, but still worth a look. 7/10

Just watched: The Girl on the Bridge 6/10

The Girl on the Bridge (La Fille sur le pont 1999)...hmmm this didn't really float my boat at all. What get's me is that a film like Angel A is panned for being empty and shallow and yet TGOTB basically does the exactly the same thing (an unlikely pairing, with a potential romance, within a Parisian backdrop) and gets praised to the hilt. OK, to be fair the photography was fantastic, but at no stage were any emotions evident. Maybe that's the whole point and I'm missing the whole arc of the film. However the film didn't make much of an impact on me and, if I'm honest, I'm glad I spent only a few quid on it.

Currently watching: Fox and his friends, er yes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars in his own film about a gay bloke who wins the lottery...cue full frontal nudity and every Gay cliche imaginable. I guess it might have meant something in the '70's but currently this isn't keeping my attention glued to the screen.

Final score: an average 6/10