recent movies seen

Saw the remake of Funny Games last week. As expected, a virtual shot-by-shot remake of the original Austrian film, which blew me away. So, ten years later, not sure I liked the remake as much: the element of surprise was gone, and I saw it in a nearly-empty theatre, but the few people in attendance were restless and noisy, which was very distracting, what with an old man who kept noisily zipping up his jacket, leaving for ten minutes or so, only to return and repeat the cycle fifteen minutes later, and also noisily tap his cane. There were also people who arrived 40 minues late, and left about 25 minutes after that, and others who kept leaving to make phone calls. It's moments like these that make me ready to give up on multiplexes altogether, and stick with arthouses or DVD's. On DVD, watched 2 movies last night: 'Bright Young Things', Stephen Fry's adaption of 'Vile Bodies', by Evelyn Waugh: quite good, and 'Interview', Steve Buscemi's remake of a Theo van Gogh movie: pretty good, but I was distracted by Sienna Miller's unconvincing hair extensions: but that could have been character-appropriate, I guess. Also, her American accent was iffy.