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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The Departed / USA / 2006

How wondrous it is to find Scorsese in familiar form, free from the constraints of historical authenticity that seemed to mire his previous two films. (I should note that I thought Bringing Out the Dead was excellent, so I don’t consider this his best film in a decade.) But, as many others have noted, this is more akin to his Cape Fear than Goodfellas, an updating of an already tested screenplay with Scorsesean panache. I also don’t think The Departed will hold up to scrutiny, as details crucial to its outcome are introduced fleetingly (specifically, Nicholson’s Frank Costello recording every conversation he has). But The Departed is rooted firmly in Scorsese’s canon, and Mark Wahlberg’s expletive-touting bad cop is as hilariously, mindlessly hostile a character as Joe Pesci’s Tommy DeVito.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Warner Bros. 35mm print
10 Oct 2006 10:26 AM | Submit Comment


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