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)
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Missing / USA / 1982
Missing, my introduction to the notorious Costa-Gavras, was nothing if not prodigious. Having watched a DVD of Amen. come and go from my possession, the victim of restrictive library circulation and my bad schedule, I waited with impatience for this film to hit the local theatre. The wait, as I now realize, was well worth it.
With solid acting by both Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek, Missing is the story every conscientious American wants to hear but at the same time dreads. Indeed, there’s an unspoken deliberation on-screen over our national identity. Men like Phil Putnam, who seems to embody the world’s perception of the United States as furtively deceitful, is balanced against Beth and Charlie Horman, the uncomplicated travelers who want peace and political serenity. Costa-Gavras never takes sides—while the American heavies are brutal and deceptive, Ed Horman is a compassionate everyman who awakens with horror from his patriotic coma to understand why—something that embodies good sociopolitical cinema. Two of the film’s most haunting scenes—a woman being rushed into a dark car by government operatives to the revulsion of almost no one, and dead bodies splayed against a glass ceiling—are perfect examples of art conveying the horrors of oppression. There’s no need for the subtle lecturing exemplified by von Trier’s Manderlay, a film that I also enjoy—the skillful acting and evenhanded story say it all.
by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
28 Apr 2006 9:46 PM | Submit Comment