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.
March 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 87
- Adam (9)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (2)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (14)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 44
- Rust Never Sleeps (0)
- Jimmy Houston’s Guide to Bass Fishin’ (0)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- He Who Hits First, Hits Twice: The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Álvarez (0)
- The Ringer (0)
- Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (0)
- V For Vendetta (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (0)
- Hangmen Also Die! (0)
- Night of the Creeps (1)
- Sky High (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Ed Wood (0)
- Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (0)
- Lessons of Darkness (0)
- Fata Morgana (0)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (0)
- Richard III (0)
- The Fog (0)
- Inside Man (18)
- Storytelling (0)
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (0)
- Bamboozled (2)
- The Man with Two Brains (1)
- Man With a Plan (0)
- The Whales of August (1)
- Brighton Rock (0)
- The Day After Tomorrow (0)
- The Innocents (0)
- Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (0)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (0)
- The Red Shoes (0)
- Breakfast on Pluto (0)
- Drawing Restraint 9 (0)
- H Is for House (0)
- Open Water (0)
- Return of the Evil Dead (0)
- The Shaft (0)
- Rooster—Spurs of Death! (0)
- Predator (0)
- Crash (0)
- Vincent (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- Das Experiment (0)
- A History Of Violence (5)
- The Proposition (0)
- The Girl Next Door (0)
- Malek Khorshid (1)
- Soldiers Pay (0)
- Al Gore Documentary (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- The House on Sorority Row (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- M. Butterfly (0)
- The Squid And The Whale (8)
- The Road To Guantanamo (0)
- The Defiant Ones (0)
- A History of Violence (1)
- Pride & Prejudice (0)
- Domino (1)
- Palindromes (0)
- Greendale (0)
- Must Love Dogs (0)
- Shopgirl (0)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (0)
- Junebug (0)
- Saw 2 (0)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (0)
- Cremaster 3 (0)
- The Flower Of Evil (0)
- The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1)
- Edvard Munch (0)
- Be Here to Love Me (0)
- La Légende d’Eer (0)
- Enduring Love (0)
- Serenity (0)
- Roger Dodger (0)
- War of the Worlds (0)
- Basic (0)
- Proof (0)
- Fantastic Four (3)
- In A Lonely Place (0)
- The Fly (1)
- Dune (Extended TV Edition) (0)
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia / Traiganme la cabeza de Alfredo Garcia / USA/Mexico / 1974
Sam Peckinpah’s Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia ranks as one of the most confounding uses of morality in film (though it still pales in comparison to Straw Dogs). A graphic spin on the road movie, we’re also given a strong study in the workings of a human mind. Bennie, an alcoholic musician, must make compromises between money and honesty, love and loyalty, respect for life and apathy towards the dead; Elita is the Bonnie to his Clyde, beautiful and hardened but tired of the distant life they’ve led.
Considered Peckinpah’s forgotten masterwork, Alfredo Garcia’s scenes of violence are few and gentle compared to the blood-and-bullet splendor of The Wild Bunch. The body count here hovers around twenty—a paltry number considering the director’s reputation. Nonetheless, it stands as a testament to his ability to infuse a film with style, heart, and romantic flare.
by Adam Balz | Source: MGM DVD
07 Mar 2006 12:39 PM | Submit Comment