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.
November 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 41
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (8)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (8)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (15)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 15
- Untitled 3b (0)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (0)
- Made In Britain (0)
- Chungking Express (0)
- Changing Times (0)
- War of the Worlds (14)
- The Wages of Fear (0)
- Le Samouraï (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Bring It On (0)
- War of the Worlds (0)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (0)
- Battle in Heaven (0)
- Everlasting Regret (0)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (0)
- The Thin Blue Line (0)
- The Devil’s Rejects (0)
- House of 1000 Corpses (0)
- Grizzly Man (0)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (0)
- An Angel at My Table (0)
- Eyes Without a Face (0)
- Se7en (0)
- Pride & Prejudice (0)
- Dude, Where’s My Car? (0)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (0)
- Pickpocket (0)
- masculin féminin (0)
- The Manxman (0)
- Land of the Dead (0)
- Oldboy (0)
- Bully (0)
- Signs (1)
- Jarhead (0)
- Perfumed Nightmare (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- Champagne (0)
- Return of the Dragon (0)
- Spring in a Small Town (0)
- Hong Kong Nocturne (0)
- Reassemblage (0)
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Spring in a Small Town / Xiao cheng zhi chun / China / 1948
An achingly gorgeous film that was voted (with good reason) the best Chinese-language film of all time by the Hong Kong Film Academy. The beautifully spare, spectral imagery, the slow, delicate camera movement, and the ghostly, almost whispered voiceover lend a seductive, melancholy rhythm to a drama that plays out almost entirely with the characters’ hands.
This restoration is a strange one, with seemingly large gaps on the soundtrack adding a good deal of unintentional modernism to the film. Sometimes the sound drops out entirely, with not even a crackle to reassure the viewer that the theater’s sound-system isn’t simply on the fritz. Still, the image is beautiful, and any means of seeing this film is welcome.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: 35mm Print c/o the “Secret History of Asian Cinema” project
01 Nov 2005 10:21 PM | Submit Comment