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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Birth / USA / 2004

There’s lots to like about Birth – above all the slow, lugubrious, glacial tone, and (for a mainstream film) the unusual and very effective use of long takes. But it’s also too derivative (we can take Nicole Kidman’s Rosemary’s Baby haircut, but we do we really need a copycat scene of Barry Lyndon attacking Lord Bullingdon?), and the film in the end just winds down, quite dissatisfyingly.

by Ian Johnston | Source: New Line DVD
19 Dec 2005 3:18 PM | Submit Comment


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