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.
September 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 51
- Adam (3)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (10)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 37
- Melinda and Melinda (0)
- Caravaggio (2)
- Get Carter (2)
- Beijing Bicycle (2)
- A Scanner Darkly (3)
- When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (0)
- The Black Dahlia (0)
- Lacombe, Lucien (0)
- Death Race 2000 (0)
- I Vitelloni (15)
- Pacific Heights (0)
- Brick (0)
- The Science of Sleep (0)
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston (0)
- Mr. Arkadin (0)
- Sisters of the Gion (0)
- The Night of the Hunter (0)
- Phantasm (0)
- Special (1)
- Midnight Run (1)
- Noi Albinoi (1)
- Two for the Road (0)
- Great Railway Journeys of the World: Confessions of a Train Spotter (0)
- Land Of The Dead (0)
- Cabaret (0)
- The History Boys (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- Road House (0)
- When the Levees Broke (1)
- Marnie (6)
- Baby Doll (0)
- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (0)
- Playtime (0)
- The Girl Can’t Help It (2)
- Ali (0)
- Boogie Nights (0)
- Brazil (1)
- Bad Timing (0)
- The Disorderly Orderly (0)
- Seven Samurai (0)
- Cracked Actor (0)
- Letter From An Unknown Woman (0)
- Scanners 2: The New Order (0)
- Kicking and Screaming (0)
- The Rapture (0)
- Inside Man (0)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (0)
- She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (0)
- Fort Apache (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- The Illusionist (0)
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Little Miss Sunshine / USA / 2006
Certainly amusing and sporadically charming, but I can’t shake the feeling that Faris and Dayton’s project is a carefully calculated construction designed to whet the appetite of the Sundance crowd, or at least the typical American Indy audience. It’s especially difficult to ignore this suspicion considering how each character seems composed to appeal to certain demographics within the characteristic indy audience and the antagonists of the film are such easy targets (Whoa, whoa, whoa! You mean beauty pageants for children are a harmful, perverse, and twisted aspect of American society? Stop the presses! Do the Ramseys know about this? While we’re at it, make sure someone also tells Willy Loman he’s not actually a winner). I left the theatre feeling the film might actually be just as processed and artificial as your standard summer blockbuster, only marketed to a different target consumer (actually, this could really be said for most Sundance stuff).
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures 35mm Print
01 Sep 2006 5:11 PM | Submit Comment
