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
- Adam (6)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (3)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (9)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (16)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 43
- Don’t Look Now (1)
- Little Children (1)
- Running with Scissors (0)
- The Prestige (2)
- Dumbland (0)
- Art School Confidential (0)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (0)
- The Hills Have Eyes (0)
- Brick (0)
- The Host (0)
- Sólo con tu pareja (1)
- Marie Antoinette (0)
- Lighten Up (0)
- Heavy Metal Drummer (0)
- Click (0)
- Poseidon (0)
- Dracula (0)
- Kissed (0)
- The Pit (0)
- Airplane II: The Sequel (0)
- Endless Descent (0)
- Wolf Creek (0)
- The White Diamond (1)
- The Departed (1)
- The Queen (0)
- The Last King of Scotland (9)
- Bobby (1)
- The Science of Sleep (1)
- The Departed (0)
- Storefront Hitchcock (0)
- passage à l’acte (0)
- pièce touchée (2)
- The Spirit of the Beehive (0)
- Death Of A President (1)
- The Da Vinci Code (1)
- The Hard Way (1)
- The Departed (2)
- The Departed (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- The Trouble with Harry (0)
- The Best of Everything (0)
- Purple Noon (3)
- Election (11)
- A Journey to Avebury (0)
- Blue Velvet (1)
- Old Joy (0)
- Blood Sucking Nazi Zombies (0)
- World Trade Center (1)
- Silent Hill (0)
- The Last King of Scotland (0)
- Army of Shadows (0)
- Harlan County, U.S.A. (0)
- 9 Songs (0)
- Shock Treatment (0)
- Children Of Men (1)
- Happy Gilmore (1)
- Manic (0)
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The Departed / USA / 2006
A great deal of the material and methods that Scorsese is applying in his latest film seem to echo his work on Goodfellas. Having said that, watching Scorsese’s intense brand of vibrant, kinetic, almost strident filmmaking (not to mention Thelma Schoonmaker’s wonderful work), fuming with matters pertaining to masculine aggression and male performance, reminds me why I adore not only Scorsese’s past films (yes, even The Aviator), but also cinema in general. It also reaffirms my indifferent reaction to the original action flick.
However, the disadvantage of such a gruff filmmaking style is that it leaves itself prone to being dismissed as adolescent, making it easy for opponents to ignore its occasional moments of delicate grace and also overlook the film’s condemnation of the juvenile actions it endlessly flaunts. Unfortunately, Scorsese doesn’t really help his cause by including a rather ridiculous final frame, and I’m hoping he’s well aware that his concluding image is actually hilarious mostly because it’s so absurdly blunt. Hopefully he’s laughing with us, though the background of the image seems intended to be far more somber than the actual result.
Regrettably the film is probably doomed to be harshly dismantled in critical circles after further scrutiny, not only because of its status as a remake of a foreign film, but more precisely because it has been met with such immediate praise and will likely receive a moderate amount of additional acclaim as the year concludes. I’m never one to disparage frequent evaluation, but it’s difficult to shake the feeling that such a re-appraisal will probably be tainted by some preconceived notion that success deserves to be eventually accompanied by denunciation and derision disguised as a more objective consideration.
Also, Mark Wahlberg = Awesome.
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Warner Brothers 35mm Print
13 Oct 2006 1:19 PM | Submit Comment
