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

Total Comments: 15


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Grizzly Man / USA / 2005

It is with little effort – and immense coincidence – that Timothy Treadwell embodies a Herzogian protagonist. But unlike the more prominent madmen in Herzog’s canon, Treadwell was a real person, and this lends Grizzly Man additional credence.

The film is also replete with powerful images that demonstrate either Treadwell’s hubris or capability—I’m not sure which I deem his chief characteristic; even though his intense fascination encouraged his death, I imagine the circumstance of his own fatality was entirely desired, if not inevitable. But these images are all Treadwell’s in his amateur documenting of the summers he spent on a rural Alaskan peninsula, so it is to him some disservice that his footage was not compiled without multiple interventions; namely, Herzog’s ruminations on Treadwell’s essential intentions, and the responses of colleagues to his death. Nonetheless, this is one of the best films I’ve seen this year.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: LGF DVD screener
21 Nov 2005 10:35 AM | Submit Comment


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