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

Total Comments: 37

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Noi Albinoi / Noi The Albino / Iceland / 2002

A movie as blank and empty as the wasteland in which it takes place. Noi is an outsider, the only albino in his remote Icelandic town. He’s a rebel, and possibly a genius. All the elements point to an interesting, offbeat character comedy, so what went wrong? For a start, there’s absolutely no plot. The action drifts, like it’s characters, from one location to another, never coalescing into anything remotely resembling a storyline. And those characters are strangely thin; like Napoleon Dynamite on a glacier, the script cobbles together a few wacky traits and calls it personality. It all ends with a devastating but completely unconvincing act of God, a desperate attempt to wrap things up which only serves to exacerbate to the directionless, nihilistic ambience of the film as a whole.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
21 Sep 2006 11:21 AM | Comments (1)

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  1. David Alcock / 29 September 2006 / 3:02 AM

    I thought it an excellent study of loneliness – if you look at it in that light, many of your criticisms may be viewed as the particular strengths of the film. Also, far from being ‘plotless’, there is a firm and steady movement throughout the film towards ever greater isolation. The denoument is particularly clever – leaving Noi completely alone – crueller than death, eh?

    But each to his own!

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