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)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (10)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (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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When the Levees Broke / A Requiem in Four Acts / USA / 2006
Following a year of unprecedented catastrophe and the resultant finger pointing from (and in) almost every direction, Spike Lee’s 4-hour document of hurricane Katrina emerges as the most lucid coverage of the disaster. Its range is totally inclusive, from the guy that told Dick Cheney to go fuck himself to the New Orleans residents deprived by insurance policies with hastily defined stipulations. Its commendable merits as a film are secondary to its vitality as a demonstration of the humanism that should trump politics and capitalism.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: HBO
18 Sep 2006 11:53 AM | Comments (1)
Beth / 18 September 2006 / 10:15 AM / URL
I didn’t catch all of this, but was tremendously moved by what I did see. On a technical level, however, I must admit I was disappointed by the quality of the filmmaking on display, namely the unattractive studio backgrounds in which he filmed the interviews. The segments with reporter Soledad O’Brien, for instance, bore a deep (and distracting) resemblence to promos for her show on CNN. I also felt these sterile settings detracted from Lee’s ability to convey the immediacy of such a catastrophic event; interviews filmed on location would have lent the film a much more organic feel.