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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A Scanner Darkly / U.S.A. / 2006
Great druggie humour. Great druggie paranoia, too. And the rotoscoping animation works perfectly, a visual analogue to the shifting perceptions of reality at work in the narrative. My favourite U.S. film of 2006.
by Ian Johnston | Source:
27 Sep 2006 1:06 PM | Comments (3)
Albert / 30 September 2006 / 6:47 PM
I’m not quite sure why this film got the backlash it did. It worked out wonderfully.
Rob / 1 October 2006 / 11:51 AM / URL
I’m not really sure either. Perhaps it was the generally high expectations, compared to Waking Live, that were simply taken too seriously. Perhaps some people can’t get over the fact that sometimes Keanu Reeves’ monotonous acting style can actually befit certain kinds of material. Perhaps its the whole style over substance quibble. I thought it was a good film. No flaws, really, but it lacking a certain artistic crackle for me to call it really great.
Chiranjit / 1 October 2006 / 7:33 PM / URL
Was there really a backlash against this film? It felt more like it was just greeted with faint praise and then swept aside. I never really heard any overly negative reaction to it either than from the normally vocal contingent of people who have already dismissed Linklater’s work as being “stoooopid” without really giving the film a chance. Maybe they were actually louder than I thought, or maybe I just decided to ignore them, but I thought this film received a mild degree of critical acclaim.