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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The Second Circle / Krug vtoroy / Netherlands / 1990

People go on about how much a student of Andrei Takovsky Aleksandr Sokurov illustrates with this deftly drawn portrait of a young man attempting to deal with the death and burial of his father. But Sokurov is his own man. There are aspects of this film that Tarkovsky was not especially adept (or didn’t have an inclination or interest) at showing; particularly, the inherent comedy in situations involving human beings under extreme duress or the effects of class division on the human spirit. Sokurov displays both here. It’s an exceptionally moving film in the vein of his earlier film, Mother and Son (1984). That film, which includes the death of a parent, however, is a celebration of life. In Second Circle, because the son is dealing with the closure of his relationship with his father I’ll say that this film is more of a validation of life. Nonetheless, I highly recommend it.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: Kino Video
12 Apr 2007 6:25 PM | Submit Comment

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