A few amusing items from the past couple of weeks: Last week I rented Science is Fiction, a compilation of director Jean Painlevé's exciting short films, mostly about microscopic underwater creatures. Blissful images accompanied by a trumpeting French narrative and bizarre, magical musical compositions.
RT and I watched Hiroshi Teshigahara's The Face of Another (trailer) based on Kôbô Abe's book of the same name. The book is better, but the film is still long, slow and fascinating. The set for the doctor's office blew my mind. I just wish I could stop referring to this one as The Man Without a Face. Mel Gibson isn't worthy of the (mis)alignment.