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.

June 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 45

Total Comments: 14

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The Bridge / USA / 2005

The Bridge’s arguably noble intentions are obscured by the shocking footage of suicides off the Golden Gate Bridge. Almost each of these is handled with pornographic suspense: we’ll see a figure from a distance, pacing anxiously around his preferred departure, before he finally mounts the red siding. It’s dishonorable that a film so ostensibly sympathetic contrives suspense from the despair of others. This is especially true of one individual, a tall, waifish man in black with long hair, whose figure is returned to at intervals, before his own elaborate jump – backwards, with arms outstretched – will be the climax at the very end of the film.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: IFC
20 Jun 2007 4:29 PM | Submit Comment

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