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.

June 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 38

Total Comments: 13

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Munich / USA / 2005

I’ll begin by stating my bewilderment toward the coverage (and comments) that Steven Spielberg encourages at what may perceptibly be an anti-populist film website. In response to anything he’s done in the past twenty-five years, I’ve sided with the prosecution in disparaging his exercises in over-sentimentality. The same is evident in Munich, but subtle. This is easy to state; the reunion that concludes War of the Worlds is offensively contrived, but here the sentimentality is immeasurably more appropriate. I’ll refer to when Avner rejects the advances of a Dutch temptress, returns to his room and calls his wife, and erupts in tears as he hears his daughter’s voice. This is undoubtedly a great film, in regard to which the ammunition I’ve dispensed upon Spielberg’s recent output is largely ineffective.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal DVD
27 Jun 2006 11:13 AM | Comments (1)

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  1. strjh02@moravian.com / 27 June 2006 / 9:20 AM

    I loved Munich as a whole, but that moment alone cut through every part of me in a way that only the finest of subtleties can. Out of nowhere in the theater, I was in tears because of how absolutely true it was.

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