Adaptation - Funny, interesting, self-reflexive, overall a fun movie to watch and to think about. Two contrasting Nicolas Cages is great, as are all the references to Being John Malkovich.

Alien - Never saw it, but the movie is far less scary with hindsight. I have no idea what happens in Alien before I saw it but there's enough pop culture in the air so that I know what the alien looks like, and that, well, the alien is coming. Too much skepticism, I brought. Talking like Yoda, I am.

Aliens - Follow up to Alien...I like it a lot better. The story flows along slightly better and gives a point to those pregnant silences. I don't see how Sigourney Weaver is stronger than the queen alien's grip, but like Bishop said "not bad for a human."

The Red Violin - The physical and mental difficulties (impossiblities?) of humping someone and playing virtuoso licks on the violin simultaneously aside, a charming film. The repeated auction scene and the fortune-telling got a bit schticky (and how does Samuel L. Jackson, granted that he is the perennial badass, get off being a grand thief?) but rest was fun. They got Joshua Bell to do the violin solos too.

The English Patient - Dear God why did I wait until now to see this movie??? A bit Far Pavilions like though not quite as epic. Unrelentless sorrow indeed, I loved every 162 minutes of it. The characters are slightly superhuman in their emotional profiles, I think, but all in service of the drama. What better way to mourn the one you love than with a cinematic walk through the desert, carrying your beloved in your arms, wrapped in white sheets? Well probably a whole bunch of things but I wouldn't mind that one either.