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)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (19)
- Jenny (9)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (3)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (16)
- Teddy (5)
- Thomas (1)
- 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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Marie Antoinette / Japan/France/USA / 2006
Marie-Antoinette: “This is ridiculous.”
Comtesse de Noailles: “This, Madame, is Versailles!”
It’s actually quite astounding how one could assume Coppola’s latest film draws inspiration from her own personal life, starting with her father’s startling decision to cast her in The Godfather Part III serving as the equivalent of Marie Antoinette’s arrival at Versailles to the distain of a great many gawkers. Much like my prior experience with Lost in Translation, I walked out of the theatre after watching Marie Antoinette feeling really sorry for Spike Jonze.
Adam’s Thoughts | Beth’s Thoughts
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Sony Pictures 35mm Print
30 Nov 2006 5:56 PM | Comments (3)
leo / 30 November 2006 / 3:09 PM / URL
C’mon, Jit. She dropped Spike like a bag of hammers at least, what?, nine months ago. In any case, she just had a daughter with new baby-daddy Thomas Mars of Phoenix.
Sheesh. Somebody needs to ask Santa for a subscription to Star magazine this year.
Chiranjit / 1 December 2006 / 10:06 AM / URL
Puh-leaze! US Weekly is so much hotter. Star magazine is like as old as Madonna. Ewww!
Anyway, I still can’t shake the feeling that Louis XVI’s inadequacies are based upon some uncomfortable private moments within Coppola’s previous marriage, mostly because Marie Antoinette was filmed fairly soon after Coppola’s divorce. Of course, this isn’t a particulary productive observation on my part since it has little to do with the effectiveness of Coppola’s film, but it’s also unavoidable given how personal Coppola’s film appears (that’s not a bad thing).
I’ll also admit I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out who Bill Murray was standing in for in Lost in Translation. I’m sure I’ll be doing the same with the characters in Marie Antoinette.
rob / 6 December 2006 / 4:22 AM / URL
As a declared fan of Ms. Coppola’s work, it’s really bad that I haven’t confronted her past and actually watched The Godfather Part III yet. It’s been with the other two in that box set for years, untouched. My bad.