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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Les anges du peche / France / 1943

Bresson famously disavowed his first two features, but though I have a lot of time for Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne you can see the problem with this, his first feature. It works fine in the over-literary style of quality French cinema of the day, but what we notice today are all the features – the professional actors, the emotive acting, the conventional sets and camera set-ups, the literary dialogue – that Bresson would later expunge from his cinema.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
31 Dec 2006 1:28 PM | Submit Comment


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