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

Total Comments: 44


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Drawing Restraint 9 / USA / Japan / 2006

No doubt this film will generate the type of hyperbole shit-storm that has accompanied most of Barney’s recent output, with one flock praising the god-like brilliance of the Master Artist and the other flock calling out, “pretentious!”

What is undeniable is that this, even more than Barney’s previous work, is a film of outrageous, startling ingenuity and beauty. And regardless of whether you think Barney’s doing anything innovative with film narrative — I do — Drawing Restraint 9 is visually and emotionally arresting, grotesque, erotic, romantic, and highly whimsical. This last note, consistent throughout Barney’s output, is perpetually overlooked by those who want to either deify or defrock the director-sculptor.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: IFC 35mm Print
20 Mar 2006 11:48 AM | Submit Comment


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