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.
February 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 47
- Adam (3)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (10)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- Curse of the Cat People (0)
- Munich (0)
- Elephant (0)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (0)
- The Wicker Man (1)
- New York Doll (0)
- Winter Passing (3)
- The New World (4)
- Date Movie (2)
- The Lost World (0)
- Transamerica (0)
- Paths Of Glory (0)
- Dark City (0)
- What Time is it There? (0)
- Crime Wave (2)
- Syriana (0)
- Batman Begins (6)
- How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (0)
- Four Brothers (0)
- Munich (0)
- Little Fish (0)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (0)
- Out of the Past (0)
- Wind Across the Everglades (6)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Lusty Men (0)
- Ghostbusters (0)
- Manderlay (0)
- The Rite (1)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (0)
- Breaking Away (1)
- Hero (0)
- Day For Night (0)
- Secret Defense (0)
- Over The Edge (0)
- Darkman (2)
- Ryan (0)
- Rubber Johnny (0)
- The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (0)
- Little Otik (0)
- Elizabethtown (0)
- Peeping Tom (1)
- Hellboy (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Monterey Pop (0)
- Badlands (6)
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Elizabethtown / USA / 2005
Cameron Crowe’s latest was brutally treated by American critics and audiences alike, and it’s easy to see why- it’s overlong, sentimental, extraordinarily self indulgent and suffers from a vacuous hole where it’s leading man should be. But this is Crowe we’re talking about, so it’s also warmly written, well chatracterised, fantastically soundtracked and, finally, rather hard to dislike. And trust me, I tried.
There are moments of saccharine that are supremely hard to take (the blank- eyed Orlando Bloom dancing, like Dylan, ‘with one hand waving free’ sticks in both the mind and the craw) but with a radiant performance by Kirsten Dunst and a wealth of memorable minor characters the film works almost despite itself.
Elizabethtown is a film that wears it’s flaws proudly and doesn’t even try to disguise them (or even consider them flaws). I, for one, found myself reluctantly glad of the experience.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
08 Feb 2006 5:28 AM | Submit Comment