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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Freaks and Geeks / The Complete Series / USA / 1999
Its superlative soundtrack notwithstanding, it’s completely incidental that Freaks and Geeks is set in 1980. My high school years occur over a decade past this time, but many of its scenarios — endured by the freaks, the geeks, and those of other juvenile social titles — I found totally familiar. None of the characters is entirely cynical, so you observe their strife with an anticipation for their disappointment or humiliation, their experiences resurrecting your own. This capability does not characterize many, if any, television series concerning a similar demographic. But even though remembrance of my own humiliations made watching this more cringe-inducing than I had anticipated, it becomes somehow cathartic. Save for a few late episodes that contrive the nascent desires of a few of the primary characters, it remains empathetic. And it’s gotten me listening to Styxx.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Shout Factory DVD
18 Dec 2006 2:21 PM | Comments (4)
Lady L / 19 December 2006 / 4:46 PM
One of my all time favorite shows…but yes it certainly does start to go a little too soap opera-y towards the end.
Rumsey / 19 December 2006 / 5:06 PM / URL
Lady L, I still have Nick’s song about you fresh in my memory.
tom / 20 December 2006 / 4:51 AM / URL
Soap opera-y? The Rogen/ tuba girl plotline is amazing, likewise Bill Haverchuck vs. Biff Tannen. Go sniff a jock strap, poop heads.
Lady L / 20 December 2006 / 1:05 PM
You’re on the pot!!! If the Rogen/tuba girl episode is not “soap opera-y” then what is? The whole listening to disco and Bowie, then punk and metal to see if he is gay or not is cheap…worst episode of the series (although still better than nearly every show I have seen since).