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.
November 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 86
- Adam (14)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (19)
- Jenny (9)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (3)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (16)
- Teddy (5)
- Thomas (1)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 48
- Marie Antoinette (3)
- The Fountain (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- Lord of the Flies (1)
- Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinema (0)
- Climates (0)
- J’entends plus la guitare (0)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (0)
- My Super Ex- Girlfriend (1)
- The Departed (0)
- The Prestige (1)
- Wordplay (0)
- Cars (0)
- Trust The Man (0)
- You, Me And Dupree (0)
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (0)
- Old Joy (0)
- Casino Royale (0)
- A Good Year (0)
- For Your Consideration (1)
- Stranger than Fiction (0)
- Love and Death (0)
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (0)
- Gabrielle (5)
- The Unforgiven (0)
- Klimt (0)
- Flanders (0)
- Candy (0)
- Tough Enough (0)
- Casino Royale (0)
- Half Nelson (0)
- The Fountain (0)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (0)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (0)
- The Departed (11)
- Volver (0)
- The President’s Last Bang (3)
- Liberte, la nuit (0)
- Emergency Kisses (0)
- Demented (0)
- Paraguayan Hammock (0)
- The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (0)
- Beckett On Film (1)
- House of Games (0)
- Marie Antoinette (1)
- Hotwire (0)
- The Caiman (0)
- Comedy of Power (0)
- Dry Season (0)
- The Rules of the Game (5)
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1)
- Burden of Dreams (2)
- Wordplay (0)
- A Brief History of Time (0)
- Saw III (0)
- Peking Opera Blues (0)
- Bad Golf My Way (0)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (0)
- The History Boys (0)
- Star Wars: Episode V (1)
- Thank You for Smoking (0)
- Eyes Wide Shut (2)
- Volver (1)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (0)
- The Phantom Carriage (0)
- The Stars Look Down (0)
- Homecoming (0)
- Flags Of Our Fathers (0)
- Mr. Death (0)
- Superman (1)
- The Fly (1)
- Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1)
- Borat (0)
- The Departed (0)
- Saw III (0)
- Borat (1)
- Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (0)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- In My Skin (0)
- The Woods (0)
- Tideland (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (1)
- The Departed (0)
- The Queen (2)
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House of Games / USA / 1987
Late in this film Maggie — a wealthy and renowned psychologist and author — discovers the extent of how she’s been duped by a gang of conmen, and the revelation is doubly potent for the viewer because it’s David Mamet showing you how you’ve been conned. But this film — Mamet’s first as a director — doesn’t hinge upon such revelations but rather relishes the plot mechanics that lead to them. I am reminded of George Sluizer’s masterful The Vanishing, in which the villain frankly admits his guilt midway through the film—it is a peerlessly suspenseful film, but emphasizes the what or how rather than the who. The same applies to House of Games, but this says nothing of the wonderful dialogue, which is so fine-tuned that even individual syllables are rife with intrigue.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: MGM DVD
15 Nov 2006 11:41 AM | Submit Comment