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.


January 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 58

Total Comments: 19


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Closer / USA / 2004

Interesting yet slightly dull character study that aims for savage wit when it’s not reaching for profundity, but winds up falling short in both departments. Director Mike Nichols covered similar terrain in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but playwright/screenwriter Patrick Marber is no Edward Albee, so it falls to the cast to make us care about these characters. The degree to which they succeed varies, but Clive Owen and Natalie Portman’s rich performances are worth the price of admission.

by Beth Gilligan | Source: 35mm print
26 Jan 2005 4:50 PM | Submit Comment


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