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.
August 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 40
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (7)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (9)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (1)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 8
- Three on a Match (0)
- Clash by Night (0)
- The Aristocrats (0)
- Red Eye (0)
- Peter Ibbetson (0)
- Flamingo Road (0)
- The Brothers Grimm (0)
- Gung Ho (1)
- The Paper (0)
- Stuck on You (0)
- Tightrope (0)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (0)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1)
- Madonna: Truth or Dare (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Broken Flowers (1)
- Grizzly Man (0)
- Z Channel (1)
- Paperboys (0)
- Deformer (0)
- The Conformist (0)
- Top Hat (0)
- Bowery at Midnight (0)
- Don’t Look Back (0)
- Dead Man (0)
- Vernon, Florida (0)
- The Long Goodbye (1)
- Errol Morris’ First Person (0)
- Mr. Skeffington (0)
- L.A. Story (1)
- The Man Who Played God (0)
- The Aristocrats (0)
- West Side Story (0)
- Broken Flowers (0)
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (1)
- Your Friends & Neighbors (0)
- Wedding Crashers (1)
- Seconds (0)
- Looking for Richard (0)
- Must Love Dogs (0)
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Your Friends & Neighbors / USA / 1998
Neil Labute’s prior In the Company of Men I consider to be among the quintessential independent films of the 1990’s; it was made on a shoestring budget, and its script and acting are superlative. (In an OFCS poll a while ago, I ranked Aaron Eckhart’s Chad among film’s most vile villains.)
This is Labute’s sophomore film, and it plays like a textbook sequel. There is no body count to exceed, but Your Friends & Neighbors is decidedly more populated and much, much fouler than its predecessor. Labute’s aesthetic – one of employing shock, offence, and taboos almost exclusively through dialogue – is much like that of Tod Solondz, but Labute is the provocateur I prefer. A shame he hasn’t employed this aesthetic as effectively in any one of his subsequent films.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: IFC
03 Aug 2005 12:25 PM | Submit Comment