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Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:29

I had some time to kill before my next screening, the tableau or erotic films from arthouse directors I mentioned yesterday called Destricted, which was a public screening at the Park City Library. I'm not at the press office, which closes in nine minutes, typing out today's report as fast as I can in an email that is to be formatted to Word later. Being busy is weird.

After writing yesterday's entry, I saw a Korean film called The Peter Pan Syndrome, which was made by one of Kim Ki-duk's collaborators. It followed a typically Ki-dukian young, quiet boy who is socially irresponsible but basically a good person. The main arc of the film involves him taking care of his mom, who recently attempted suicide and is in a coma, but it also stresses a crush he has on a neighbor woman

who is roughly the same age as his mom (the neighbor is an upstanding member of society, but that doesn't stop her from doling out a few handjobs to comfort a troubled teen). The film was pretty good, better than the three I had seen prior to it, but still, nothing outstanding.

I had some time to kill before my next screening, the tableau or erotic films from arthouse directors I mentioned yesterday called Destricted, which was a public screening at the Park City Library. There's a long story here I could tell (I was the second-to-last person to get in; a jillion people wanted to see it), but won't, due to time constraints (it's probably boring anyway). Lucky for me, it was a very good film, easily the best one I had seen up to that point.

Larry Clark, whom I usually do not care for, had the best short in it, a doc where he casts a young-ish boy to have sex with a porn star, called "Impaled."  Matthew Barney's film, Hoist, was also good, as were pretty much all of the films by the directors I wasn't familiar with, but oddly enough, Gaspar Noe's, We Fuck Alone, was probably the worst in the program. Still, he participated in the Q&A, and it was nice to see the most talented creep in the world handle the public (he seemed kind of shy).

I also saw two films so far today, but have less than one minute left, so have to wrap this up. I'll talk about them tomorrow, hopefully.