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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24 Hour Party People / UK / 2002

Upon finishing Chris Ott’s profile of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, I returned to this film – which I still consider among the best I’ve seen so far this decade – to scrutinize its accuracy (or lack thereof) in rendering Ian Curtis’ frenetic stage presence and Martin Hannett’s unorthodox production techniques. And, it does fairly well, although the duration of Joy Division’s relationship with Factory Records – although accelerated – is only the film’s leading bookend, abbreviated (with sparing liberties) to roughly twenty minutes of screen time. This is not a complaint—this film is decidedly poised to relay Factory Records’ (or Tony Wilson’s) spotlight, but it is a fascinating, albeit short visualization of the production of one of the most brooding, atmospheric records I own.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: DVD Screener
26 Jul 2006 10:53 AM | Submit Comment


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