And The Winner Is . . .

Kinamand ("Chinaman")

Following are the movies we watched between mid-February and August 1st, 2009. Kinamand was our favorite. Slum Dog Millionaire was really good, but the brevity and simplicity of Kinamand . . . the sweetness, I guess, won over the complexity, audacity and shock value of Slum Dog. It's supremely more difficult to pull off something simple really well, I think, than to do something that is dazzling. Kinamand succeeded.


In Burges was surprisingly entertaining. Borat was simply out of hand ridiculous; the definition of sophmoric, yet infinitely memorable.

Le Cercle Rouge *** (2-16-09)

Late Spring ** (2-23-09)

Intolerable Cruelty **** (2-25-09)

WALL-E **** (3-09-09)

Mongol *** (3-16-09)

Le Samourai *** (4-20-09)

Tell No One **** (5-11-09)

Slumdog Millionaire ***** (6-1-09)

Cranes Are Flying *** (6-16-09)

In Bruges **** (6-19-09)

Kinamand ***** (6-20-09)

Borat **** (7-12-09)

Seduced and Abandoned **** (7-24-09)

Jellyfish *** (7-31-09)

Love Actually *** (8-1-09)