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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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


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