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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Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinema / France / 2004

You might reject Godard’s melancholic spirit, his elegy on cinema as the 20th-century art form that is now over, but who can doubt (well, I can’t) after viewing In Praise of Love, Our Music, and now this that he’s simply the greatest director alive today. The clash of imagery and spoken and written text is simply dazzling, and way beyond the abilities of the English subtitles on this print — which a lot of the time simply gave up trying. You need a modicum of French (and some German, for the beautiful Celan poem) to just begin to parse some of the meanings and beauties here. I only wish my French was better.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
28 Nov 2006 1:26 PM | Submit Comment


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