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

Maybe I’m being lazy, but I wonder what, if anything, this film actually has to say about violence, its nature, and its “history.” Even though I liked Million Dollar Baby less, I think that film has more provocative things to say on the subject — or at least on the subject of real (vs. movie) violence.

But then, the characters in Cronenberg’s film are what really interests me, far more than any grand allegorical schema. Indeed the film is much more interesting as a romance than as a treatise (or a “Western”).

And, boy, is it nice to see a 90-minute film for a change.

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by Leo Goldsmith | Source: New Line 35mm Print
12 Jan 2006 1:00 PM | Submit Comment


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