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
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (8)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (15)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 10
- The New World (0)
- Blackmail (0)
- King Kong (0)
- The Squid and the Whale (0)
- Italian For Beginners (0)
- La Chinoise (0)
- Cabin Fever (0)
- Match Point (2)
- Munich (2)
- The Family Stone (0)
- The Manchurian Candidate (0)
- Marnie (0)
- The World (0)
- Citizen Kane (0)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (0)
- Rope (1)
- Drums Along The Mohawk (0)
- L’Intrus (0)
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (0)
- Mulholland Dr. (2)
- The Family Stone (0)
- Walk the Line (0)
- Birth (0)
- Vincent and Theo (0)
- The Ghost Ship (0)
- Last Days (0)
- Mysterious Skin (0)
- In the Mood for Love (0)
- 2046 (0)
- The Lady Vanishes (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- L’Enfant (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Van Gogh (0)
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (0)
- Grizzly Man (0)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- The Body Snatcher (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (3)
- King Kong (0)
- Match Point (0)
- The Brothers Grimm (0)
- The Fury (0)
- Vertigo (0)
- Broken Flowers (0)
- Primer (0)
- Syriana (0)
- Look At Me (0)
- The Philadelphia Story (0)
- Sin City (0)
- Afrique, je te plumerai (0)
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Match Point / UK / 2005
The fact that Woody Allen directed this film is its sole dynamic. Otherwise, it’s a somewhat pedestrian thriller in which the aspect of luck (analogized in the image of a tennis ball clipping the net and suspended equally over either half of the court) is more emphasized than the characters’ motivations. It is engaging to find Allen in such an uncharacteristic venture, but the absence of a neurotic protagonist with inordinate sexual frustrations makes it feel incomplete.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Dreamworks DVD screener
28 Dec 2005 2:27 PM | Comments (2)
leo / 28 December 2005 / 12:09 PM / URL
I’ve been speculating that this is perhaps the rare recent Woody Allen film that would have actually been improved if Allen had cast himself in the lead role. Think about it: Woody as a hunky tennis pro, ingratiating himself into a wealthy British family, lusting pathetically and uncontrollably after Scarlett Johansen. At very least, he would have had some great scenes with the horribly underused Brian Cox, and the oil-rub scene would have been no more repulsive than his making out with Juliette Lewis in Husbands and Wives.
Joe Conor Dunphy / 12 January 2006 / 11:23 PM
If Brian Cox was the snarky son of the family then Amen! Sometimes his performance was almost underecorded. I would love to hear more about his bad self.