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.
February 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 42
- Adam (11)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (8)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 29
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (0)
- Secretary (0)
- Imitation of Life (1)
- Froken Julie (0)
- Volver (0)
- Taxi Driver (0)
- The Blob (0)
- The Young Ones (0)
- Intimate Stories (0)
- Autumn Marathon (0)
- The Prince of Egypt (0)
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (0)
- Flags of our Fathers (1)
- When Harry Met Sally… (2)
- Dark City (3)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (0)
- Day for Night (0)
- Batman Returns (1)
- The Science of Sleep (0)
- Angels In America (1)
- Somersault (0)
- Inland Empire (4)
- Memories of Murder (4)
- The Ladykillers (2)
- He liu (0)
- Blood of Jesus (0)
- Who’s Camus Anyway? (0)
- Man of Ashes (0)
- Chinatown (0)
- The Scarlet Empress (3)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (2)
- This Film is Not Yet Rated (0)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (0)
- Because I Said So (0)
- Decasia (0)
- Notes on a Scandal (0)
- Dreams (2)
- I Am David (1)
- Memory of a Killer (0)
- Blood of Jesus (0)
- Hunger (0)
- The Holy Mountain (2)
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Hunger / Sult / Sweden / 1966
Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun is served well in this film version of his 1890 novel about one of the most fascinatingly turbulent characters in (very) late nineteenth century literature. Pontus (apparently based, to a large extent, on the author), attempts to literally embody the aesthetics he prostelyzes as he tramps through Christiana (near Oslo), Norway, trying to secure a writing gig. Per Oscarsson is amazing as the seriously flawed, outrageously deluded, self-sabotaging, starving artist, who seems unable to enter a room without turning it into an Ibsenian third act.
Director, Henning Carlsen, does a lot more than simply illustrate the world Hamsen originally created. Using Pontus’ perspective as the point from which the narrative extends, the city of Christiana becomes a dream-like labyrynth through which Oscarsson must navigate and find expression. Carlsen and company do it passionately and persuasively, if not exhausively. As little of the beautifully haunting enviorns exist today, the film is a testament to Hamsun’s wonderfully distorted world.
by Marlin Tyree | Source: New Yorker Video
01 Feb 2007 5:42 PM | Submit Comment