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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Voyage of the Young Composer / Akhalgazrda kompozitoris mogzauroba / USSR / 1984

Giorgi Shengelaya has an interesting premise for this film: a young composer wandering innocently around turn-of-the-century Georgia to collect recordings of local music unwittingly leads to the eradication of the remnants of the local revolt against Russian rule. Unfortunately Shengelaya’s direction at times borders on the inept, with examples of poorly-devised mise-en-scene and under- or un-directed acting. It’s a pity that the bulk of the film never measures up to the effective final shots of the film, as we revisit the now-empty sites of the film’s story to a swelling Mahler soundtrack.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
12 Jan 2006 12:23 PM | Submit Comment


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