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
- Adam (16)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (8)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (19)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 32
- El Topo (0)
- A Hole in My Heart (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- The Decalogue (I) (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (0)
- Deja Vu (0)
- Mildred Pierce (0)
- Babel (1)
- 3 Godfathers (0)
- Children of Men (0)
- Mikey & Nicky (0)
- One Eyed Jacks (0)
- Nashville (0)
- Hearts of Darkness (0)
- Apocalypse Now (0)
- In the Bedroom (0)
- Babel (0)
- Harold And Maude (0)
- Superman II (0)
- Flags Of Our Fathers (0)
- Predator 2 (1)
- Leave Her To Heaven (0)
- Lola (0)
- Still Life (0)
- His Kind Of Woman! (0)
- Stand By Me (1)
- Only You (0)
- The Descent (0)
- Office Space (0)
- Northfork (0)
- The Good German (0)
- Dreamgirls (5)
- Curse of the Golden Flower (0)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (1)
- Little Children (0)
- The Great New Wonderful (0)
- Twelve and Holding (0)
- Good Morning (0)
- A Dirty Shame (0)
- Another Gay Movie (1)
- Scoop (0)
- Apocalypto (0)
- Idiocracy (0)
- Shampoo (0)
- Seabiscuit (0)
- City Slickers (0)
- While You Were Sleeping (0)
- Night At The Museum (0)
- The Black Dahlia (0)
- Borat (0)
- An-Magritt (0)
- 2046 (7)
- Shoeshine (0)
- Blood Simple (0)
- Through a Glass Darkly (0)
- The Painted Veil (0)
- Henry V (4)
- Love Object (0)
- PlayTime (0)
- Take the Money and Run (0)
- Climates (0)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (1)
- Children of Men (6)
- Cries and Whispers (0)
- Miami Vice (0)
- Notes on a Scandal (0)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (0)
- Volver (0)
- Night Watch (0)
- The Long Goodbye (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (0)
- Look Both Ways (0)
- Children of Men (3)
- The Bat (0)
- Shadowboxer (0)
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (0)
- The Bishop’s Wife (0)
- Children of Men (1)
- Delicatessen (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- Infernal Affairs (0)
- Dial M for Murder (0)
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Northfork / USA / 2003
This is a solidly divisive film, from what I’ve read, and I was thoroughly enthralled by every minute of it. (And for that reason, I’m relieved that Adam’s response mirrors my own.) But I still can’t explain it thoroughly, or describe its plot other than in a few sentences: in 1955, a group of men outfitted in identical fedoras (imagine the Bible salesmen from the Maysles’ Salesman) are recruited to facilitate the evacuation of Northfork, Montana, in anticipation of a dam that will flood the entire town. Some leave without haste, others prepare for the flood as a collective of Noahs—one even equips his house to float once the water rushes mightily forth. This is a film that is variably comedic, visionary, and compositionally symmetrical (as in how so much of Kubrick may be described as such), but it remains a brazenly original and ruminative film for which most any interpretation is inadequate.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Cable TV
18 Jan 2007 2:46 PM | Submit Comment