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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Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors / Tini zabutykh predkiv / USSR / 1964

More than in Paradjanov’s subsequent films, Shadows gives expression to a baroque, uncontrollable talent, a frenetic and exciting clash of contrasting styles. There’s a mix of natural settings; blatant studio sets whose artifice there is no attempt to hide (for example, the scenes in the shepherds’ hut, with the illogically open door and the fake raging elements outside); religious imagery; variations in colouration, sometimes intense, sometimes washed out; static shots varying with extreme expressionistic movement/images. Again unlike the later films, there’s more of a conventional novel-like story, though the dazzling style and overlay of traditional music raise it to a mythic level.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
08 Jan 2006 5:02 AM | Submit Comment

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