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.

April 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 44

Total Comments: 7

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The Idiots / Dogma #2: Idioterne / Denmark / Sweden / France / Netherlands / Italy / 1998

There is a central conceit within Lars von Trier’s second film subscribing to the ‘Dogma 95’ manifesto, and it’s little to do with the production values of the movie. The group of individuals pretending to act like “spasses” (that is, retards) are only able to challenge and reject the bourgeois, middle-classes they despise because they themselves are bourgeois and middle-class. “The Idiots” are therefore just another clique in the MTV generation—albeit a middle-class, cultured one. For who does the majority of music on the station cater for other than teenagers simultaneously rejecting and taking advantage of their own social circumstances for no discernible reason?

by Rich Watts | Source: Tartan Video DVD
07 Apr 2005 5:19 AM | Submit Comment

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