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.
May 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 54
- Adam (7)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (2)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (9)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 16
- Iraq in Fragments (0)
- The Running Man (0)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (7)
- Possession (0)
- The Late Shift (0)
- The Long Goodbye (0)
- Landscape After Battle (0)
- A double tour (0)
- The Damned (1)
- Good Night, And Good Luck. (0)
- Powder (0)
- Three Times (0)
- The Da Vinci Code (1)
- Time Walker (0)
- Days of Heaven (0)
- The Dark Corner (0)
- Mission: Impossible III (0)
- They Live! (0)
- One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (0)
- High Fidelity (0)
- Tirez Sur La Pianiste (0)
- X- Men (0)
- Deconstructing Harry (0)
- In the Realms of the Unreal (0)
- Down in the Valley (0)
- Breaking the Waves (0)
- Hoosiers (1)
- Birth (0)
- The Curse of the Werewolf (0)
- Versus (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- The Best of Youth (0)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- The Asphalt Jungle (0)
- The Maltese Falcon (0)
- Mission: Impossible III (0)
- Repulsion (0)
- Trouble Every Day (3)
- Bambi (0)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (0)
- The Village (0)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (0)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (1)
- Overnight (0)
- Dig! (1)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- The Outsiders (0)
- Mystery Men (1)
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (0)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (0)
- The Empire in Africa (0)
- My Grandmother’s House (0)
- Psycho (0)
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The Da Vinci Code / USA / 2006
Expecting an unmitigated disaster as prophesized by many national critics, I was instead beguiled by its intricate and absorbing storyline, great acting, and realistic action. Though I’m one of the few to have never read Dan Brown’s novel (and I stress the word novel), I feel that Ron Howard does a good job of keeping the viewer engaged; whether it’s through gothic flashbacks, constant in-your-face motifs, or plot twists, he weaves a puzzle that makes you forget about Tom Hanks’ hair.
Like many other book-to-movie adaptations, though, the plot is crammed into a digestable 149 minutes, an all-too-frequent tragedy in contemporary movies. This film is, of course, far from being a milestone or masterpiece, but so far this year the movie studios haven’t offered much in terms of enthralling cinema. Controversy aside, I enjoyed the break from the other, more disappointing season films.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Print
20 May 2006 7:25 PM | Comments (1)
Robert Humanick / 22 May 2006 / 3:20 PM
It didn’t entertain me, and nor did it make it’s subject matter food worthy for thought (I’ll return to The Last Temptation of Christ or, hell, even Dogma for that quality). And when Ron Howard lit up the two triangles in the Star of David to AGAIN remind the viewer of their importance – after a chin-stroking Tom Hanks profoundly states “the two triangles!” (where was the intended “a-ha!”?), no less – I wanted to jump at the screen and tear it down. Surely, not atrocious, but I feel no need to ever see it again (maybe Ian McKellen’s scenes, as he was the only one who played up the slight camp of the material to any extent). This was one movie where I preferred the previews to the feature.