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.
May 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 27
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- Star Wars: Episode III (15)
- The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (0)
- Tarnation (1)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (0)
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- Battle Royale (0)
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- The Americanization of Emily (0)
- 13 Going On 30 (1)
- The Passion of Anna (0)
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- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (0)
- Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (5)
- Big Daddy (3)
- Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1)
- Napoleon Dynamite (0)
- Meet the Fockers (1)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (0)
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The Passion of Anna / En passion / Sweden / 1969
This has never been one of my favorite Bergman films (being one of those Bergman films most easily labeled as “pretentious” and particularly brutal in its characterizations), but being in a cheery mood I thought I’d revisit it. While the depiction of the characters and the architecture of their relationships still strikes me as quite unforgiving, the film is never cold. At best, the film is brilliantly incisive and even satirical of the barriers of fiction that the characters construct between each other; at worst, it is morbidly self-deprecating, though not quite pathetically so. Also, the MGM DVD reveals how striking and sophisticated Bergman and Nykvist’s use of color is. This is one of Bergman’s very first excursions into color cinematography, and the subtle shifts between blood-red sunsets and cold, blue daylight are astonishing.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: MGM DVD
12 May 2005 1:52 PM | Submit Comment