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
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (9)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (15)
- Jenny (4)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (19)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (14)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 30
- Rope (0)
- Funny Ha Ha (0)
- The Wild Bunch (0)
- The Passenger (0)
- The New World (0)
- The White Diamond (2)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- Syriana (0)
- Oliver Twist (0)
- Kings and Queen (0)
- Fun with Dick and Jane (0)
- Mother, Jugs & Speed (0)
- Fun with Dick and Jane (3)
- Isle of the Dead (0)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (0)
- My Friend Ivan Lapshin (0)
- Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (0)
- Buffalo ‘66 (1)
- My Neighbor Totoro (0)
- Rear Window (2)
- Kagemusha (0)
- Sátántangó (2)
- Badlands (5)
- Match Point (1)
- A History of Violence (0)
- Laputa: Castle in the Sky (0)
- A History of Violence (0)
- Twenty Days Without War (0)
- Blue Mountains (0)
- Repentance (0)
- Voyage of the Young Composer (0)
- Ocean’s Twelve (0)
- Ocean’s Eleven (0)
- A History of Violence (0)
- Cache (0)
- Reality Bites (0)
- Y tu mamá también (0)
- Hostel (1)
- Tarnation (0)
- Super Size Me (0)
- The Plea (0)
- Ashik Kerib (4)
- Shadows Of Our Forgotten Ancestors (0)
- Master of the Flying Guillotine (1)
- Paycheck (1)
- Chinatown (0)
- Attack of the Giant Leeches (0)
- Hostel (4)
- Munich (0)
- Open Water (0)
- Psycho (0)
- The Legend of Sea Wolf (0)
- Duel (0)
- Gerry (0)
- The New World (0)
- The Birds (0)
- King Kong (0)
- The First Teacher (2)
- Marnie (1)
- Murder! (0)
- Broken Flowers (0)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (0)
- Through a Glass Darkly (0)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (0)
- The Family Stone (0)
- Vernon, Florida (0)
- Torn Curtain (0)
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The Plea / Vedreba / USSR / 1967
It’s hard to make any definitive statements on The Plea – the first of Tengiz Abuladze’s Georgian trilogy, of which Repentance is the most well-known – on only a single viewing. Shot in beautiful, dazzling black-and-white widescreen, there’s almost no diegetic dialogue as such; instead the soundtrack is composed of readings of the poetry of Georgian Vazha Pshavela. There is a central story of a primitive struggle between Georgian villagers and Moslem sheep rustlers which devolves into a round of revenge killings, but the film’s frame is oblique, evocative and abstract. One that needs returning to, in order to make sense of it over and above the compelling imagery.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
08 Jan 2006 5:23 AM | Submit Comment