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

Total Comments: 48


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Casino Royale / USA / UK / Czech Republic / 2006

A glass of champagne amidst a collection of shaken martinis, Casino Royale is distinct among its predecessors for its brutality and visceral action sequences. But my favorite Bonds aren’t as brutal and visceral as they are witty and often absurd, outlandish executions of villain plots. Here, as Daniel Craig pillar jumps between cranes hundreds of feet in the air, you feel how he exerts his body, his resulting wounds don’t look superficial; they look earned. It’s a wonderful action film because it does away with many of the dialogical – and familiar – Bond staples, but a somewhat sacrilegious film in the Bond canon for precisely the same reasons—exhilarating but unfamiliar.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: 35mm print
23 Nov 2006 12:54 PM | Submit Comment


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