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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Regular Lovers / Les amants reguliers / France / 2005

“Have you seen Before The Revolution?” asks Lilie, before staring into the camera and intoning “Bernardo Bertolucci”. Regular Lovers is a rebuke to Bertolucci’s The Dreamers, his crass, dreadful take on the ‘68 generation, although both films are similar in their portrayal of the solipsism of youth. Bertolucci’s great failing is to have forgotten the idealism that underlay this generation’s involvement in politics.

This is the summation of Garrel’s cinema: the idealism of ‘68, the subsequent sense of loss, the evanescence of love, the drug addiction, even Nico’s music, filmed in a beautiful black-and-white. I do think that the stripped-down, austere J’entends plus la guitare is more central to Garrel’s work, but Regular Lovers is still a magnificent film.

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by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm
09 Dec 2006 3:39 AM | Submit Comment

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