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

The end of a glittering career? This is one of those movies where you kind of know what he’s trying to do, he’s even doing it pretty well, but you have to ask whether or not it was worth doing in the first place. The film tries to present itself as a serious examination of the role of folklore in modern society, but ends up feeling like a hopelessly complex and deeply silly update of those sub- Spielberg ‘80’s movies where ‘ordinary’ middle American folks came up against magical alien forces and learned a bunch of valuable life lessons, like Batteries Not Included or Cocoon. As a film critic I suppose I ought to be offended by Night’s hamfisted swipes at my profession, but as a lifelong Bob Balaban devotee and self- hater it actually made sense to me. But he’ll have to pull something pretty commercial out of the bag to make up for this one. Bruce Willis should wait by the phone.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
16 Aug 2006 10:17 AM | Submit Comment

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