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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Syndromes and a Century / Sang sattawat / Thailand / France / Austria / 2006

You might think that Apichatpong Weerasthetakul couldn’t pull many more changes on his favoured binary two-part narrative structure (see Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady) but I’m inclined to call this calm, peaceful, beautiful work his best film to date. Marrying (like Jia Zhangke, the other great contemporary Asian director) formalist compositions with a documentary impulse (I love the open-air aerobics ending, if only because I’ve seen this so many times myself in small-town Thailand)the film leaves you with an exquisite sense of the subtleties, the surprises, the randomness, and the utter mysteriousness of life.

Leo’s review

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm
11 Dec 2006 12:24 PM | Submit Comment


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