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.

January 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 84

Total Comments: 32

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Look Both Ways / Australia / 2005

“I’ve been seeing death everywhere,” says Nick to Meryl, who can’t help but nod vigorously in agreement. In Look Both Ways, the inventive feature debut of Sarah Watt, this is literally true for both characters. Nick, a photographer who has until recently earned a living shooting wars and conflict around the globe, has just been diagnosed with cancer, and can’t shake from his mind the haunting images of his father’s death from the same (shown in flashback) and the frightening photos of cancer cells he’s found on the internet (which flicker onscreen like something out of Brakhage). Meryl, on the other hand, is a greeting card artist still reeling from her father’s sudden death. Like Nick, she sees disaster around every corner, vividly imagining a host of ugly fates that might befall her (Meryl’s fantasies are illustrated onscreen by drawings made by Watt herself). The two have met each other, naturally, at the scene of an ugly train wreck.

If this sounds like the formula for something maudlin or camp, rest assured it’s neither. While none of the (multiple) subplots are as affecting as the main storyline, the movie nonetheless succeeds as a sweet, refreshingly offbeat romance.

by Beth Gilligan | Source: Kino DVD
07 Jan 2007 7:13 PM | Submit Comment

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