Last night I went to the pics to see Motel Hell. It was quite lamentable, really.

Last week I was at the London Film Festival, saw the solid if nothing new Rescue Dawn by Herzog, and Grace is Gone, to which I was crying like my sister cries at Beaches; I'd recommend it to folks on here.

Geoff, Memoirs of a Geisha is awful. I saw it on the big screen, and almost left the cinema at one point; intolerably bad, really. This is what I wrote at the time (I can't remember a single scene from it): "Lifeless drama with an unconvincing romance and horrid succumbing to mainstream values: the most beautiful shots here are not given enough room to sweep us away, and the cast, all brilliant in their native tongue, seem awkward when directed for English-speaking audiences."