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.

August 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 61

Total Comments: 60

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Lady in the Water / USA / 2006

Terrible. I offer no sympathy to M. Night, who not only expects his audience to accept this drivel ridden fantasy, but also his self-serving performance in the film. Portraying a troubled writer, Night is told his “novel” will cause debate, but also greatly influence future generations…gee, what could he be insinuating here…this transparent, uninspired, and rather pathetic metaphor was only one of the numerous things wrong with this film. I found his pretension most insulting, along with his cliched and semi-racist supporting characters. Actually I do have sympathy, but only for his children, who suffered through this as a bedtime story. Good grief.

by Jenny Jediny | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
02 Aug 2006 4:32 PM | Comments (1)

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  1. Crouching Scrunt, Hidden Tartutic / 3 August 2006 / 9:02 AM

    Isn’t the swimming pool, from which Madame Story emerges, the perfect metaphor for the film? Transparent (to borrow your adjective) and shallow.
    I, too, pity his children. If you are reading, M., at night, when the kids want a story, stick to E.B. White or J.M. Barrie.

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