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.


October 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 57

Total Comments: 43


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Blue Velvet / USA / 1986

Full review.

After this, Blue Velvet’s a merry walk in the park, with sharp, defined imagery, a tantalizing mystery plot, and a pleasantly naïve mindset. If Lynch’s current aesthetic shift proves irrevocable, no doubt there will be many who will miss this type of Lynch film. But the director’s subsequent work has so fully and consistently expanded upon the themes of this watershed film, and, with Mulholland Dr., so conclusively buried its wistful innocence, that any nostalgic objections to Lynch’s new directions would be far too late.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Home Video DVD
05 Oct 2006 5:03 PM | Comments (1)


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  1. Ian / 9 October 2006 / 1:41 AM / URL

    Yes, any objections are too late, but couldn’t they be seen as aesthetic rather than nostalgic? I still think Blue Velvet is Lynch’s best film. And maybe that wistful innocence could reappear with another Straight Story?

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