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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The New World / USA / 2005

There are strong parallels between this and Malick’s Days of Heaven, foremost the fluctuating relationship between a woman and two men. In the earlier film, this is not a paramount concentration, but incidental, as with every other scene in the film (a summer wheat harvest, a locust storm, or a massive brush fire). Days of Heaven is a meandering and, significantly, coherent assembly of the fleeting emotions, settings, and images that inhabit the lives of the four characters depicted therein. The same can not be attributed to The New World. For one, there is a tangible sympathy for Pocohantas; she is essential instead of incidental, rendering the film’s kaleidoscope of natural images – this is Malick’s chief strength – a cantilever designed to support her utility as an icon of imperialism.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: 35mm print
29 Jan 2006 2:11 PM | Submit Comment


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