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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Klimt / Austria / France / Germany / UK / 2006

Perhaps any comments should be very provisional on this English-language “producer’s cut” (a full 30-minutes shorter than the German-language director’s cut), but this version seems to work fine. Light years away from any conventional artist’s biopic, hardcore Ruizians should enjoy the film’s lush, opaque, meandering, at times confusing dream logic. It’s significant that the strongest character in the entire film is one that is clearly the product of the fevered imagination of the dying Klimt. Consumer warning, though: John Malkovich is at his most affected here.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
26 Nov 2006 10:38 AM | Submit Comment


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