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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Clerks II / USA / 2006
One of the most endearing aspects of Clerks is the stilted delivery and impossible wit of almost every character in the film. It has a furious apathy about it, and this is enhanced immeasurably by the film’s low budget production. Whereas Dante and Randal are entrapped in a suburban quik stop by a lack of aspiration, in Clerks II they have aspiration, only to cling firmly to the bottom rung of the corporate ladder. That Dante and Randal, now in their early thirties, seek employment at a local fast food chain is a rather tedious suspension of disbelief, and is one of many inconsistencies this film bears in comparison to its prequel. Nonetheless, Kevin Smith’s gravitation toward nostalgia and responsibility isn’t entirely objectionable; moments of this film are uncharacteristically sympathetic, even necessarily desperate. It’s just sort of jarring when you’re expecting another slew of dick and kooch jokes.
That said, this has the most poetic ending of any new film I’ve seen this year.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: The Weinstein Company DVD
22 Dec 2006 4:34 PM | Comments (3)
leo / 22 December 2006 / 2:05 PM / URL
Uh, ok, I’ll take your word for it.
Rumsey / 22 December 2006 / 2:16 PM / URL
I kid you not.
rob / 22 December 2006 / 11:24 PM / URL
The whole thing’s still rank from my perspective, sorry to say. I think Kevin Smith needs to grow up in many ways not addressed in this nostalgic film, and while I’ve no problem with his desire for schmaltz, I find his comedic targets pretty lame and indicative of his own faux liberal attitude. As for the final shot: yeah, I called the milk maid.