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.

April 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 50

Total Comments: 20

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Children of Men / UK / USA / 2006

Viewing this on my paltry TV somewhat weakened the visceral impact of watching it on the big screen, but Cuarón’s film nonetheless continues to affect me in ways I find it difficult to articulate. Many will try to parse the film’s morality, politics, or narrative logic and find it wanting, but in the face of its overwhelming emotional force — achieved not only through the astonishing immediacy of its handheld photography but also through Clive Owen’s massively sympathetic protagonist — I find the whole thing very hard to fault. Whatever you think Cuarón ought or ought not to be saying (about Bush, Abu Ghraib, Homeland Security, and so forth) is to me immaterial in the face of the questions it poses and often fails (or refuses) to answer. And regardless of the arguments about its relative depth or shallowness, it’s a classic and ultimately quite simple chase film — dense, economical, wrenching, and provocative.

Here are some earlier entries from Adam, Tom, Jenny, Rumsey, Beth, and me, the last time I watched it.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Universal Pictures DVD
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