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 Science of Sleep / La Science des Rêves / France / 2006
At times Gondry’s film is astounding and splendid (especially when we are submerged in marvellously imaginative images), while at other moments it’s utterly baffling and somewhat exasperating… which is all pretty much appropriate considering he’s concentrating on the delirious state in between dreams and reality.
Considering all the offensive stuff he’s spouting towards Stéphanie, was anyone else wondering if Stéphane was actually in one of his peculiar dream-states during the final confrontation he has with Stéphanie in her apartment? Gael García Bernal’s mannerisms and behavior are so odd at that point that even though it appears that he’s apparently simply attempting to offend her in order to achieve some detestable form of closure within their relationship, I started to wonder if his trippy dialogue and short attention span were both a function of his altered state of reality – as if he’s started dreaming before he climbs into Stéphanie’s bed.
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Warner Independent Pictures 35mm Print
13 Oct 2006 4:14 PM | Comments (1)
Ladd w / 18 October 2006 / 12:07 PM
I have many questions about the film as well, just as I did when I first saw “Eternal Sunshine…” What is the significance of the boat with the trees in it, and Golden the Pony? I’d have to watch the film a second time in order to catch those subtle references in the dialogue. But your question about whether or not Stephane is in a dream state is an intriguing postulate. Maybe? Maybe not? I’m not sure what I saw, but I do know I was enchanted from beginning to end by Science of Sleep.