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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Grizzly Man / Canada/USA / 2005
Herzog has been making great documentaries for years now, so it’s no wonder that Grizzly Man is excellent. It is, however, one of his very best non-fiction films, and not simply because it is one of his most accessible. Indeed, it is among the most generous documentaries I have ever seen — to its subject and its audience. It allows for both the comedy and pathos to emerge from Timothy Treadwell’s bizarre, hypnotic soliloquies, as it balances both the brutality and cuteness of nature.
And almost offhandedly, it is also very much a filmmaker’s film, with its close attention to the minute ontology of the image and the histrionics of everyday life. At a time when one is inclined to question the future and worth of cinema, it is nothing short of thrilling to witness Herzog’s passionate empathy for his subject’s desire to change the world (and himself) through film.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Lion’s Gate 35mm print
18 Aug 2005 10:56 PM | Submit Comment