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

Total Comments: 23


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Heading South / Vers le sud / France / 2005

This has to count as something of a disappointment after Laurent Cantet’s first two films, Human Resources and especially the very fine Time Out/L’emploi du temps. It’s not that it isn’t intelligent and well thought-out, with its themes clearly enunciated: North versus South; the political ramifications of tourism; the privileged position of the Western tourist as opposed to the locals exposed to both poverty and poltical/social violence; “older women” female sexuality. But in the end there’s little force to what Cantet has to say, perhaps the result of this being an outsider’s view of Haitian life (of 30 years ago) – another kind of tourism, in its own way.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
23 Jul 2006 2:15 PM | Submit Comment


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