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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Velvet Goldmine / UK/ USA / 1998

Very few films have managed to capture the force and sheer joy of music quite like this. True, it’s absurdly pretentious (and well aware of it), but it’s also wildly imaginative, stylish, perfectly cast, flawlessly directed and hugely entertaining, the precise midpoint between the twisted kitsch psychodrama of Superstar and the poised historical (hysterical) elegance of Far From Heaven. Those who criticised Haynes for overdramatising actual events and using thinly disguised echoes of real people as his characters were missing the point- there is no reality here, this is to all intents and purposes science fiction, and should be viewed as such. You’d have thought the spaceships would give it away.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
28 Aug 2006 11:34 AM | Submit Comment


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