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.

December 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 53

Total Comments: 10

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Match Point / UK / 2005

As far as I can tell, the only reason this film is getting so much advance praise is that its setting is so unusual for a Woody Allen film. Otherwise, it’s not all that different from much of his darker work.

And it’s a really sour film, too; fairly misogynist, and way too long. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers turns in a rather fake performance as a rather fake guy; and Scarlett Johansson is appropriately cast as a not-very-good actress who is nonetheless aware of her sexual power over men. It works: she’s completely unconvincing, but with a mere turn of the lip she could melt the paint off her lover’s shiny new Mercedes.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Dreamworks 35mm Print
06 Dec 2005 10:48 PM | Submit Comment

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