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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Sátántangó / Hungary / Germany / Switzerland / 1994
One of the most unrelentingly grim movies I’ve ever seen in my life, and yet my energy didn’t really begin to flag until about 6 1/2 hours in (and I blame this partially on the MoMA’s strict no-food policy). It also marks one of the closest times I’ve come to walking out of a theatre (those who have seen the film should have no trouble earmarking the scene I was reacting to), but I’m glad I stayed, as I found it to be one of the most transfixing and unusual viewing experiences I’ve ever had.
by Beth Gilligan | Source: 35mm print
17 Jan 2006 11:09 AM | Comments (2)
Ian / 23 January 2006 / 8:33 AM / URL
You mean you saw it all in one stretch? I’m thankful I saw it in three-hour blocks over three successive days – and thought it was an absolute masterpiece. No Cats Were Harmed In The Making Of This Film, by the way. (Which is more than can be said for the fate of animals in Michael Haneke films.) Bela Tarr took the cat home, but I did hear Mihaly Vig the composer say that the crew were pretty unhappy with what Tarr put the cat through anyway. (I assume this is the scene you’re referring to?)
Beth / 24 January 2006 / 7:37 AM / URL
That’s the very scene. Harmed or unharmed, the cat did not seem to be enjoying itself.