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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Mr. Arkadin / The Corinth version / Confidential Report / France / Spain / Switzerland / 1955
I’m admittedly not a Welles-aesthete, and there seems to be a tendency among cinephiles more scrutinizing than myself to obsess over every frame of an unfinished film the man has made. From what I gather, with the formidable body of work Welles left unfinished (either that, or in a form that does not meet his exacting approval) one is left to regard its moments of genius. But I feel, with this film, the overall enterprise is only occasionally brilliant. Mr. Arkadin is also concerned with an aging and wealthy man and his obsession with his own past; and in comparison to my only point of reference it’s obviously emulative, and expectedly the lesser film. But there are many moments of genius here, and Mr. Arkadin establishes Welles’ biography as a brilliant man whose expatriation from the American film industry pushed his resources further out of his grasp.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: The Criterion Collection DVD
25 Sep 2006 11:31 AM | Submit Comment