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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Mysterious Skin / USA / Netherlands / 2004

To the many unlikely adjectives that have been used to describe this film’s handling of child abuse (namely, “touching”) I’ll add “clever.” This topic is depicted with some explicitness, but also sensitivity and ingenuity. An initial encounter between a young boy and his little-league coach is encapsulated by a rain of Fruit Loops—this is what I mean by clever; my brief description may make the scenario seem campy, but it’s actually beautiful, even if the action it precedes elicits some volatile emotions in the young participants.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Tartan DVD
18 Dec 2005 2:00 PM | Submit Comment

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