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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Elephant / USA / 2003

As a deliberately opaque rumination on the motivations behind violence, Gus Van Sant’s Elephant is eclipsed by Alan Clarke’s film, from which its title is taken. Both, indirectly or not, are employments of suspense; Clarke’s film, replete with anonymous characters and no dialogue, is unpretentious (and absolutely jarring in its starkness) for this reason, but Van Sant’s isn’t as it intends sympathy for its naive adolescents—they embody a more successful utility as expendables in a horror film. And it is to this end that the film works exceptionally well. The final act commences with brief, concentrated flash-forwards of the inevitable violence, teases for the bloodshed the concept promises.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: HBO
27 Feb 2006 11:15 AM | Submit Comment

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