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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Nashville / USA / 1975

Both Nashville and Playtime are correlative refractions of life itself. Tati’s film is the more humorous and impersonal, Altman’s the more intimate and vulnerable—vulnerable in that when Linnea is describing her children’s deafness you realize the amplified hardship of her parenthood, or when Sueleen is manipulated into a striptease when she really only wants to sing, you avert your eyes and judge the roomful of men cheering her slavish performance. The violence that closes the film does all but enjoin you in the final, impromptu eulogy.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Paramount DVD
23 Jan 2007 5:10 PM | Submit Comment


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