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.
July 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 71
- Adam (5)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (15)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (5)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 23
- Lady in the Water (1)
- Metropolitan (0)
- Bonnie and Clyde (0)
- 24 Hour Party People (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Krrish (1)
- Predator (0)
- Lethal Weapon (1)
- Batman (0)
- Mary of Scotland (0)
- Cheyenne Autumn (0)
- Heading South (0)
- Spider (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Superman Returns (3)
- The Night Listener (1)
- Captain Blood (0)
- Sleepers (0)
- Snowcake (0)
- American Dreamz (0)
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (0)
- Demolition Man (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- MASH (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2)
- Superman Returns (0)
- Metropolitan (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (0)
- Art School Confidential (0)
- Brick (0)
- L’ami de mon amie (0)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (0)
- The Spiral Staircase (0)
- Bringing Out the Dead (0)
- Leave Her to Heaven (0)
- Alice (1)
- Fantastic Planet (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (2)
- Caché (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (0)
- Popeye (2)
- 25th Hour (1)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Halloween: H20 (0)
- Culloden (0)
- Evolution (0)
- Hard Candy (0)
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (4)
- Carnal Knowledge (0)
- Naked (1)
- Murmur of the Heart (0)
- Wet Hot American Summer (1)
- Superman Returns (2)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (0)
- Click (0)
- The Squid and the Whale (0)
- The Harder They Come (0)
- Up! (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
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A Scanner Darkly / USA / 2006
Undoubtedly the best film I’ve seen in a theater this year. Richard Linklater’s rotoscoping technique lends a fluid feel to each actor’s movements, perfectly befitting the shifting identities and paranoia at hand. As in Dazed and Confused, he captures the interaction between his drug-addled characters with pitch-perfect warmth and humor (with Robert Downey, Jr.’s hilarious monologues stealing the show), but does not shy away from showing the cost of addiction, something Philip K. Dick’s novel was also invested in. Still, this is no cautionary tale about drugs, but rather a frighteningly relevant look at a seemingly not-so-distant future in which every move is observed and government and corporate interests have fully merged. And for once, Keanu Reeves’ vacant stare serves his role – as a man whose sense of self is rapidly disintegrating – extraordinarily well.
by Beth Gilligan | Source: Warner Independent 35mm print
08 Jul 2006 1:15 PM | Submit Comment