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
- Adam (10)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (6)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (15)
- Jenny (8)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (15)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 65
- Pan’s Labyrinth (0)
- Firewall (0)
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1)
- Interiors (0)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (0)
- The Kingdom (0)
- The Innocents (0)
- Les anges du peche (0)
- Night at the Museum (0)
- Children of Men (0)
- Dreamgirls (2)
- Invincible (0)
- Babel (15)
- The Good Shepherd (0)
- Scarlet Street (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- The Illusionist (1)
- The Good Shepherd (0)
- Mon oncle d’Amerique (0)
- Flying Down To Rio (0)
- Yearning (0)
- The Good Shepherd (1)
- Little Children (4)
- Shortbus (0)
- Clerks II (3)
- Fires On The Plain (0)
- Cape Fear (0)
- Testament d’Orphée (0)
- Miami Vice (0)
- Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (0)
- Curse of the Golden Flower (0)
- Au revoir, les enfants (0)
- Freaks and Geeks (4)
- The Watermelon Woman (0)
- Wanda (0)
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley (0)
- Sayat Nova (0)
- Miami Vice (3)
- El Topo (6)
- Troilus & Cressida (0)
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (0)
- Deja Vu (0)
- Inland Empire (0)
- Shock Treatment (3)
- The Holiday (0)
- Inland Empire (0)
- Syndromes and a Century (0)
- The Chinese Boxer (0)
- Volver (0)
- Days of Glory (0)
- Paris, je t’aime (0)
- Frozen City (0)
- Network (0)
- Regular Lovers (0)
- The Double Life of Veronique (0)
- L’Amour fou (0)
- Lost Highway (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- Nosferatu the Vampyre (0)
- Le vent de la nuit (0)
- Fresh Air (0)
- In Smog and Thunder (0)
- Sissy Frenchfry (2)
- The Tenants (0)
- Little Children (1)
- Half Nelson (1)
- The History Boys (4)
- Inland Empire (1)
- American Movie (0)
- Hard Eight (2)
- V for Vendetta (5)
- Hearts of Darkness (1)
- Casino Royale (0)
- Borat (5)
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Miami Vice / USA / 2006
Cocaine superhero bromance. Shiny, sleazy melodramaganza. Modern camp classic. Best movie of 2006.
Jit’s thoughts | Beth’s thoughts | My (more extensive) thoughts
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Universal Pictures DVD
15 Dec 2006 12:15 PM | Comments (3)
rob / 19 December 2006 / 4:24 PM / URL
I don’t get the camp element you savor, but the great thing about great films is how you can rework them endlessly in your own mind. Second-best of the year in my book, but I can’t guarantee that wouldn’t change in time or even by tomorrow. Glad to see others are enjoying it so, even if it bombed according to the majority.
Personally, I wouldn’t recommend the UR cut, as it manages to siphon off some of the fabulous energy the film reeks of, especially if you already disliked the “In the Air Tonight” cover, which is moved from the end credits (where I thought it gave the film a great existentialist kick to spare) to the build up before the shootout (like a bad music video, ugh).
leo / 20 December 2006 / 8:11 AM / URL
I need (need, like sunlight or oxygen) to compare the versions more thoroughly, but I would venture that the “Director’s Cut” drags a bit more in the middle. And, yes, no amount of camp appreciation of cheesy music and macho silliness will warm me up to that blasphemous cover. But the new cut does have a couple of nice touches, most obviously the opening speedboat race, which is straight out of the TV show and gives the film, as it were, a fine epigraph: MOJO.
Chiranjit / 20 December 2006 / 8:58 AM / URL
I’m in complete harmony with Rob on the unnecessary switch of the Phil Collins cover. As terrible as that cover may be, having the film close with the song lends the film a little bit of trepidation and conveys an uneasy sense of the world in which these characters choose to live within. Now that the cover has been shifted to preface the film’s climax, it just feels like a self-referential homage that serves as a poor prelude to another action set-piece (but it’s still a spectacular action set-piece).