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
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- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 29
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- Imitation of Life (1)
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- Volver (0)
- Taxi Driver (0)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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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Angels In America / USA / 2004
The screenplay to this film must be one of the best in the last ten years. I seriously can’t think of a better one. Tony Kushner adapts (if you must) the film from the two-part play of the same name. Frankly, after seeing the premier of Millennium Approaches over ten years ago in New York I was doubtful if any filmed presentation would work. And certainly after HBO butchered it by airing it in separate hour-long segments I was especially discouraged. But I bought the six hour-long film and was utterly transfixed.
The film concerns a group of people connected by the blight of the AIDS epidemic during the Reagan-era 1980s (when people were still talking openly about it). It’s a distinctively blunt take on the national political scene at the time and a moving portrait of American relationships in crisis – and how they are continually in crisis.
No one should miss this, even if it’s a single viewing (and you don’t happen to agree with Kushner’s perspective).
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Warner/HBO Home Video DVD
14 Feb 2007 6:44 PM | Comments (1)
Andrew Eglinton / 15 February 2007 / 3:16 AM / URL
Love Tony Kushner’s work. And I saw a performance of this in London a few years back, it brought more to the text whereas the film version excels in its visual aesthetic.