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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Mr. Arkadin (Corinth Version) / Confidential Report / France/ Spain/ Switzerland / 1955

I might be one of the few that doesn’t find the narrative of Mr. Arkadin to be all that troublesome (though, it should be noted that I never find plot-holes to be that annoying unless the point of the film is plot). What does irritate me is that all the momentum that Welles builds up with considerable effort screeches to an abrupt halt once we are subjected to a maddeningly irritating scene involving Akim Tamiroff’s dying petty crook drone on about his appetite for liver. It might be comical for a moment, but then it becomes painful to endure, and always causes me to become impatient with Welles’s decisions as a director. Otherwise his film could be appreciated for his frame compositions alone and probably should be forgiven for its poor dialogue sync.

by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Criterion Collection DVD
24 Apr 2006 2:55 PM | Submit Comment


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