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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Zodiac / USA / 2007

Midway through Zodiac many of the film’s central characters are at a screening of Dirty Harry, a film partially based on the exploits and correspondence of the very killer that remains at large during this scene. The case’s lead investigator (Mark Ruffalo’s Columbo facsimile) exits early, incapable of finding entertainment in the ostensibly fictionalized film, and is later approached by another, an amateur sleuth also obsessed with identifying the Zodiac killer. At this instant, we, too, are invited to disparage the fiction in our neurotic desire to have all the facts straight. In a later letter to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Zodiac writes: Waiting for a good movie about me, I wonder who will play me. It is an announcement of the film’s metafictional intentions, and this is – by and far – David Fincher’s best film.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Paramount Pictures 35mm print
13 Apr 2007 2:15 PM | Comments (1)

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  1. Clay / 18 May 2007 / 10:58 PM

    No question. Panic Room was tense, but reeked of lazy style over character-based tension and settled acting. It felt like Fincher produced his previous two films to this nerdy eye.

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