Just got a chance to pre-screen The English Surgeon, which is having its West Coast premiere at the Kabuki tonight at 9:15. I plan to write an actual review of it in the morning, but for the moment just let me say that it is a wonderful and rewarding film, full of intensely emotional moments. It also has a couple of graphic surgery scenes (“I think you’ll find that will crack now” is a good quote) so be sure you can handle fifteen or twenty minutes of spraying blood and drilling bone and poking around in somebody’s open head. It’s really not all that hard to watch. The film is well-worth coming out to see.

Anyway, it screens tonight at 9:15 and screens again tomorrow at 6:15; I understand that both the director of the film and the surgeon himself will be on hand for the premiere.