Usually when I watch a film, I try to devote all my senses and thinking, all my intensity to it. But sometimes (although it happens very rarely), I just enjoy the show.

Why not devote all your senses and thinking to a film AND enjoy the show at the same time? 
OK, we already got over this...

I can totally understand your current desires which made you decide for Lubitsch and against Antonioni, somehow, I feel the same these days though I could probably never refuse to watch an Antonioni in the Cinema if possible. 

To my surprise, the film was very good, and very enjoyable. Maybe not quite up to the first two films, but very close.

I told you, that I didn't see anything bad the whole month! 

Have you also seen "Scooby Doo"? After your appreciation for "Daniel, der Zauberer", I'm not so sure If you'd hate it - scary. Gosnell's direction was shockingly amateurish - considering the fact that the film's budget was something around 90 000 000 $...

Anyway, your selections were quite interesting in December, somehow like a cinematic holiday from the local "forces". 

And I had almost forgotten that the Wachowski Brothers could actually make intense and interesting films, without being pretentious jackasses. 

Right, right. "Bound" is their only bearable film, imo. Jennifer Tilly's performance is delicious, isn't it?