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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Little Fish / Australia / 2005

A nicely crafted film about overcoming (and living down) addiction in contemporary Sydney, with an array of Hollywood Aussies returning to their homeland to deliver some excellent performances. Cate Blanchett is the star here, and her furtive character is beleaguered without being pathetic; Hugo Weaving is damn near unrecognizable (and even painfully normal-looking) as a former-footballer headed in a downward spiral; and Sam Neill is porcine and menacing as a retiring druglord with a taste for towheaded young men. Toss in Dustin Nguyen from 21 Jump Street for good measure, and, as unlikely as it may sound, you have a roster of fine actors turning in some of their best work anywhere.

As films about drug addiction go, this film is refreshingly down-to-earth, artful in its sparkling, azure photography, while it almost imperceptibly boils an undercurrent of crime-thriller tension. No babies crawling on ceilings, here: the tone is meditatively set by a reverberant electronic score, and by frequent, blissful shots of Blanchett gliding along the cool, aqua lanes of a swimming pool.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: First Look Pictures Screener DVD
15 Feb 2006 3:02 PM | Submit Comment

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