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 Days / Dongchun de Rizi / China / 1993

The Days is Wang Xiaoshuai’s sedate, beautifully banal portrait of a painter and his girlfriend, their faltering relationship, meandering lives, and post-Tiananmen malaise. A member of the provisionally labeled “Sixth Generation” of Chinese filmmakers, Wang approaches his subjects with a kind of kitchen sink realism, favoring a placid, unhurried, and unadorned view of urban Beijing over the vast tapestries and allegorical gestures of the previous generation of filmmakers. Perhaps this more obliquely political depiction of life in modern China “as it really is” is the reason that the film has been (and perhaps still is) forbidden in the People’s Republic of China (though it has apparently been widely available through the bootleg DVD and VCD market).

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: VCD?
23 Apr 2005 2:19 PM | Submit Comment

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