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.


December 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 74

Total Comments: 65


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American Movie / USA / 1999

Class, geography, and economics aside, Mark Borchardt is much the same as just about everyone of my generation: overly ambitious, deeply dissatisfied, and constantly self-defeating. But his tenacity and loquacity make him a charming, and not depressing, presence, and of course it is his class, geography, and economics that make the film so endlessly fascinating, deeply touching, cautiously hilarious, and even uplifting in the most unlikely of ways. As a result, it’s pretty much the most realistic — and realistically optimistic — film about filmmaking that I know.

“It’s alright. It’s okay. There’s something to live for. Jesus told me so.”

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Columbia TriStar Home Video DVD
02 Dec 2006 5:06 PM | Submit Comment


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