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: 29


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Thank You For Smoking / USA / 2005

Though it feels a few years out of date and its arguments appears to mirror the strategies of its protagonist a little too often, Jason Reitman’s film features what may be the finest Aaron Eckhart performance yet committed to celluloid. Eckhart seems to have mastered the art of making arrogance appealing and charismatic in his own unique way. It’s a gift that is utterly compelling, whether Eckhart is suiting up here as tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor or as police interrogator Stan Krolak in Sean Penn’s “actors’ movie” The Pledge. A great deal of credit for Eckhart’s performance should probably be given to Reitman as well, who deftly handles all his actors. Unfortunately his skills of satire aren’t as polished.

by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures 35mm Print
24 Apr 2006 2:34 PM | Submit Comment


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