Screening Log

This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.


October 2004 activity

Total Log Entries: 21

Total Comments: 14


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Trafic / Italy / France / 1971

With M. Hulot prominent in the cast, Trafic is careful effort by Jacques Tati, made during his late, insolvent career. In his previous Hulot films, Tati’s interests are progressively collective and observant instead of narrative (in Playtime, the cumulative film in this progression, M. Hulot is sometimes unnoticed in the film’s periphery). Both Mon Oncle and Playtime contain scenes that satirize a workday commute on a crowded highway; Trafic is essentially an extension of one of these scenes. It’s familiar, and nonetheless spirited and inventive.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Home Vision Entertainment VHS
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