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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Day For Night / La Nuit Américaine / France / 1973

I guess Truffaut is hardly held in the high esteem that he once was. He is the most conventional of the New Wave directors, with a very uneven oeuvre. But what you get above all from Day For Night is an overwhelming love of cinema. Films and filmmaking matter. And you can warm to Truffaut – even love him – simply for this love that is the subtext of his filmmaking and the overt subject here. Just as Je Vous Présente, Pamela, the film-within-the-film here, is said to mark the end of one kind of cinema, so Day For Night, with its irony-free cinephilia, comes from a past, now lost age of filmmaking.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Warner Bros DVD
12 Feb 2006 9:01 AM | Submit Comment

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