Within the past seven days, I’ve seen 18 movies — one at home, on DVD, and 17 in seven different DC-area theatres:

Home:
Wings of Desire

Theatres:
How to Deal
I Capture the Castle
Jet Lag
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
The Legend of Suriyothai
Northfork
Johnny English
2 Fast 2 Furious
Owning Mahowny
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Capturing the Friedmans
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Winged Migration
Whale Rider
Swimming Pool
L’Auberge Espagnole

Most recent at the top of the list; the bottom two were both last Monday night.

So many good ones, too. Northfork and Owning Mahowny are excellent examples of what I love about movies, and most of the others were great too (or, at least, pretty damn good), particularly L’Auberge Espagnole, Swimming Pool, Whale Rider, Winged Migration, Capturing the Friedmans and I Capture the Castle. Even the new animated kids’ flick Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas was lots of fun, despite being a streamlined, bloodless adaptation with anachronistic sensibilities. I don’t have anything against kids’ movies — some of my favorite movies are “meant” for kids — but I think it’s a mistake to think that they need to be either streamlined or bloodless . . . Sinbad was all the more engaging knowing that my brother Stephen helped develop the processors that were used in animating it.