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
- Adam (8)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (2)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (5)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (15)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (18)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (6)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 32
- Lady Snowblood (0)
- Lost Highway (6)
- The Ring 2 (0)
- The Proposition (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Club Paradise (3)
- Good Night, and Good Luck. (0)
- Missing (0)
- You Are My Sunshine (1)
- The Passion of the Christ (0)
- Finder’s Fee (1)
- Days of Heaven (0)
- Eat The Document (0)
- The Gladiators (0)
- L.A. Confidential (1)
- Dead Man’s Shoes (0)
- Inside Man (0)
- Rhythms of the World Anthology (0)
- Mr. Arkadin (Corinth Version) (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Pulse (0)
- A Walk Through H (0)
- Bend of the River (0)
- Oh My God! (0)
- The Pity Card (0)
- The Devil’s Rejects (3)
- House of 1000 Corpses (4)
- Clean (0)
- Sex & Fury (0)
- Days of Heaven (0)
- My Grandmother’s House (0)
- They Live (0)
- The Double Life of Veronique (1)
- L’Enfant (0)
- Possible Models (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (0)
- Point Break (0)
- Max Headroom (0)
- Big Time (0)
- Scary Movie 4 (0)
- Wolf Creek (0)
- The Stepfather (0)
- Saw (0)
- The Intruder (0)
- Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (0)
- V For Vendetta (0)
- Match Point (0)
- Jarhead (0)
- A Very Long Engagement (0)
- Gerry (0)
- Brick (0)
- Friends with Money (0)
- Solaris (4)
- Westworld (0)
- Hardcore (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- BMX Bandits (2)
- Cursed (0)
- Rumble Fish (0)
- Condemned to Live (0)
- The Talk of the Town (0)
- Shivers (0)
- The Best of Youth (0)
- Full Metal Jacket (2)
- The Parlor (0)
- Bully (1)
- Lumière (0)
- The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1)
- Welcome To The Jungle (0)
- Return Of The Secaucus 7 (0)
- Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie (2)
- 3-Iron (0)
Full Archive
Advertisements
My Grandmother’s House / La Casa de mi abuela / Spain / 2006
Opening Night film at the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival.
Adán Aliaga’s feature documentary follows the lives of Marita, a 75-year old widow, and Marina, the 6-year old granddaughter in her charge, in the weeks before they must move out of Marita’s cozy, plaster-built home of 50-odd years. Shot in lurid, acrobatic DV, Aliaga’s film is surprisingly, sometimes aggressively intimate, capturing Marina’s hilarious juvenile flailings and Marita’s wearying attempts to rein them in.
In portraying these two people, Aliaga ventures some bold editing strategies and artful camerawork, but the result is emotionally effective without being maudlin. Especially in the portrayal of Marita, the film might well have played up the pathos of her situation — being coaxed from the house her husband built a half-century ago, in order to make way for some luxury flats. But Aliaga instead opts for a perspective closer to that of Marina’s: dreamy, hyperactive, easily distracted, but always affectionate. And even if the instrumental indie rock that scores the film is of questionable relevance, it nonetheless evokes the dusty, sun-dazed qualities of Marita and Marina’s Spanish town and the ambling, repetitive, but pleasant life they lead there.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Digital projection
20 Apr 2006 12:58 PM | Submit Comment