Well, the Film Festival has redeemed itself from a rather baffling and deeply disturbing (yet still effective) opening day.

Yesterday I saw: a New Zealand sheep zombie movie. Hilarious on so many levels, not least of which was the screaming pile of Melanie and Rita sitting next to me.

War Tapes - excellent war journalism - in which American soldiers were given their own cameras and told to shoot what they saw in the Iraq war. Horrible, funny, politically complex. Really should be compulsory viewing (although might need a few blown-up body shots to be removed before it gets a wide release).

A Mighty Heart, starring Angelina Jolie (who is very good in it) about the journalist Daniel Pearl who was beheaded in Afghanistan. Very well put together and it's a story I've always been interested in.

I also "saw" a documentary about Primo Levy - or, actually, not about Primo Levy. It must have been about something, but I certainly couldn't figure it out and I have honestly NEVER done this before, I am ususally unable to, but I slept right through it. Genuine REM sleep for about three quarters of the film. I'm sure it's interesting to people who are obsessed with Primo Levy but since my association with Primo Levy is that "I really must read his books", and since the quarter of the documentary that I saw shed no light on him whatsoever, it was an excellent opportunity for some shut-eye.

Other films I've seen since Thursday:

Teeth - a genuinely hilarious film about vagina dentata. Possibly my favourite so far. Go and see it at the second screening, I promise you will not be unsurprised by the events that transpire in what looks (at the beginning) like it could be "Mean Girls" or something similar. Another movie in which Rita and Melanie's (and Baggins') screaming was just as much a part of the experience as the film itself.

Savage Grace - a film starring Julianne Moore and "based on real life events". This fact alone is the reason the film works because Oh. My. Lord. Anyone who thinks their family is dysfunctional should check this out.

The Simpsons Movie. Shut up. After seeing Ex-Drummer, we deserved it. Including The Simpsons, that's ten movies since Thursday. Also, the more you see, the more you want to see. This could be a long couple of weeks.