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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The Illusionist / Czech Republic / USA / 2006
An entertaining film, sumptuously designed, with a setting that is too rarely used these days, The Illusionist is nonetheless very, very silly. It’s a movie that purports to be serious about magic — even boasting a Ricky Jay consultation — but it routinely confuses prestidigitation with presto!-digital fakery that’s so unconvincing, even for fantasy, that the supposed cleverness of its ending is undermined. Giamatti turns in another shamelessly hammy supporting turn and, for once, Edward Norton sucks. There’s a really interesting film to be made about this era and this subject matter, but this isn’t it.
I should note, though, that Rufus Sewell and Eddie Marsan continue to be awesome.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Yari Film Group DVD Screener
26 Dec 2006 4:05 PM | Comments (1)
rob / 26 December 2006 / 4:05 PM / URL
Wow. Edward Norton never seems to let ‘em down, but everyone has a bad day now and again. I love Giamatti, but a lot of his smaller turns seem to be far less genuine and far more calculated in their nuance, which is to say, that the Academy will eat it right up (Cinderella Man?). People encouraged this one on me earlier in the year, but I’d prefer the DVD for something that doesn’t strike me as terrible compelling.