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

Total Comments: 35

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Secret Defense / France / 1998

This is one time when Jacques Rivette’s longer-then-usual running length doesn’t work. I wouldn’t sacrifice a minute of La Belle Noiseuse’s four hours, but Secret Defense’s 170 minutes seem thin and over-extended. Sandrine Bonnaire is, of course, great, and the lengthy travel sequences (train, metro) are mesmerising, but the film runs out of steam in the latter half, and the denouement is far too tidy and symmetrical to be at all satisfying.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Image DVD
12 Feb 2006 8:45 AM | Submit Comment

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