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.


April 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 73

Total Comments: 32


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Jarhead / USA / UK / 2005

Friends have been quick to slot this in with the current crop of political critiques (Syriana, Munich) but I’m not sure Jarhead deserves it. It’s portrayal of Gulf War I as an absurdist black comedy is simply because that’s how our heroes experienced it; the film doesn’t dig any deeper than that. But can a war film do any more? At least it’s self-conscious enough about its limitations – hence the scene of blood lusts being stirred by the “anti-war” Apocalypse Now.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
11 Apr 2006 2:34 PM | Submit Comment


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