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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Changing Times / Les temps qui changent / France / 2004

I admire Andre Techine’s project, the way he makes intelligent, sometimes even thematically challenging films firmly in the mainstream of French filmmaking. But the effect usually for me is pretty underwhelming. Changing Times covers a lot of bases – gender, race, gay/hetero, aging, the North-South divide – with intelligence and a fine cinematic sense. But rather like My Favourite Season, a similarly “good” film, it never gets under the skin. It lacks the kind of stylistic surprises Arnaud Desplechin, for example, springs on you in Kings and Queen, that can make a film like that so thrilling to watch. On the other hand, given his generation, Techine will never verge like Desplechin on the misogynistic.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
28 Nov 2005 10:06 PM | Submit Comment


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