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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Richard III / UK/USA / 1995
Staging Shakespeare on the silver screen is like recreating a Lichtenstein painting with ketchup and mustard—the results are destined to be muddled and sacrilegious. With Richard III, Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine come very close to succeeding. Based on a stage production by Richard Eyre, Richard III condenses Shakespeare’s five-act play down to a 104-minute pseudo-monologue by the vengeful brother of King Edward. An allegory of Nazi Germany that relies on historical incongruities, McKellen’s King Richard, a deformed metaphor for Adolph Hitler with the suggestive black uniform and all, is a malicious and unforgiving, slowly purging his family in search of the throne.
Much of the film’s charm is its array of acting talent. Adding to the fated royal family is Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Annette Bening, John Wood, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Nigel Hawthorne, all of whom embody their roles in an exemplary film that, unfortunately, builds to a swift and unappetizing finale.
by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
26 Mar 2006 5:06 PM | Submit Comment