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.
March 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (12)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- Police Academy (0)
- Mannequin (2)
- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (0)
- Downfall (0)
- Millions (0)
- Trouble Every Day (1)
- The Great Ziegfeld (0)
- The Jerk (0)
- Stripes (0)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (0)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (0)
- Control Room (0)
- Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances (2)
- Gimme Shelter (0)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (0)
- The Work of Director Michel Gondry (0)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1)
- Dracula’s Daughter (0)
- The Devil’s Nightmare (0)
- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (0)
- In This Our Life (0)
- Song of the Exile (0)
- Pierrot le Fou (1)
- L’Eclisse (0)
- 976-EVIL (0)
- The Truman Show (0)
- Dumb and Dumber (0)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Tropical Malady (0)
- Stop Making Sense (0)
- Sweet Charity (0)
- Weekend at Bernie’s II (2)
- M (5)
- Dear Frankie (0)
- Krull (0)
- The Hanging Woman (0)
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Pierrot le Fou / France/Italy / 1965
Like Breathless, Pierrot le Fou is the story of a couple on the run, but five years after his first feature, Godard has re-un-learned everything. Rife with spontaneity, improbability, and absurd dialogue, the film reminds one that Godard’s films were once not only liberating and (literally) revolutionary, but also damn funny. Even with the director’s persistently self-serious dismantling of the Hollywood idiom, there is the simple pleasure of watching Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo (hottest couple ever!) frolicking around Southern France with wild foxes, comic books and a small arsenal, impersonating Americans and spouting lines like “You’re impossible! You talk to me with words and I look at you with feelings.” As with Two or Three Things I Know About Her (a film I prefer slightly, if only for that cup of coffee), much hard-thinkin’ would be required to sort it all out, but one can always sit back and simply watch the madness. Somehow, it all makes perfect sense in the end, with the image of Belmondo wrapping his head with dynamite.
On a side note: Pierrot would make an excellent double-feature with Badlands.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Fox Lorber DVD
17 Mar 2005 12:13 PM | Comments (1)
thethirdman4@hotmail.com / 18 March 2005 / 6:33 AM
This would be my second favorite Godard, right after CONTEMPT. Some dislike the film for the aforementioned reasons; I, on the other hand, love it precisely because of that.
It’s a splendid film.