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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pièce touchée / Austria / 1989

A brilliant, kaleidoscopic short work from the Viennese post-post-structuralist Martin Arnold. The film takes a single, innocuous shot from an old Hollywood film (any ideas what film it is?) — a man enters a room where a woman sits reading in an armchair; they chat and then walk across the room together — and relentlessly manipulates each frame until each tiny movement of the actors and the camera becomes weighted with significance. Arnold expands the boundaries of this basic form in his subsequent work (adding sound and broadening the scope to entire films, not just scenes), but this is a beautifully concise expression of a deconstructive mania that fully exploits all of the minute, incidental concordances and artificial peculiarities in each frame.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Re:Voir VHS
12 Oct 2006 2:25 PM | Comments (2)


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  1. Conor / 12 October 2006 / 7:40 PM

    Bullets Over Broadway?

  2. Conor / 12 October 2006 / 7:42 PM

    Bram Stoker’s Drvcula?

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