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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A History of Violence / USA / 2005

Laughter during the penultimate killings in this film confirmed my suspicions of its true subversion of the crime genre. And as a genre piece it’s a pitch-perfect mechanism. Many sequences are, in description, ridiculous (for measure, a role-playing sex scene, and another at the foot of a stairwell), but they’re staged so clinically (every gunshot wound rendered in fresh prosthesis, every threat delivered with some experienced drawl) the joke is sold, only every time I laughed my guilt was encouraged. This is a masterpiece of subversion, and among my favorite films from the past year.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: New Line Cinema 35mm print
10 Jan 2006 10:53 AM | Submit Comment


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