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.

January 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 67

Total Comments: 30

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Munich / USA / 2005

Considering Spielberg’s reputation as a sentimental filmmaker, I had an awful feeling this would end up like a morally-contrived, overly-simplistic, cartoon. Thankfully I was wrong and my fascination with Spielberg’s recent career continues. If you can get past Spielberg’s reliance upon children – it is fairly heavy-handed in this instance – and Tony Kushner’s verbose script, which feels desperate to be important at times, the film is rather reasonable in its treatment of the subject matter. Kaminski’s cinematography is superb, with an unnerving brightness that often obscures rather than illuminates the events that transpire, as if the clarity these events are meant to create is futile. The scene involving the conversation between Avner and Abad al-Chir on the Cyprus hotel balcony was especially impressive in its equitable treatment of its characters, as Spielberg’s humanistic viewpoint provided complication rather than simplification.

by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Universal Pictures 35mm Print
07 Jan 2006 2:05 AM | Submit Comment

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