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
- Adam (9)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (7)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (3)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- My Darling Clementine (0)
- Waitress (0)
- Venus (0)
- Under The Sun Of Satan (0)
- On The Waterfront (0)
- Pickpocket (2)
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (0)
- Ocean’s 13 (0)
- A Trip To Mars (0)
- The Candle And The Moth (0)
- Temptations Of A Great City (0)
- The Abyss (0)
- Brand Upon The Brain! (0)
- Six-String Saumurai (0)
- An Evening With Kevin Smith (1)
- The Bridge (0)
- The Hustler (0)
- Sherman’s March (0)
- Nana (0)
- La Fille de l’Eau (0)
- A Chorus Line (0)
- The Long, Hot Summer (0)
- God Said, ‘Ha!’ (0)
- Ocean’s 13 (1)
- Knocked Up (0)
- Marnie (0)
- Knocked Up (0)
- Kind Hearts And Coronets (0)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1)
- Casino Royale (2)
- The 40 Year Old Virgin (0)
- Vacancy (0)
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Brideshead Revisited (2)
- Odd Man Out (0)
- Andrei Rublev (0)
- Imitation of Life (0)
- Waitress (0)
- Knocked Up (3)
- His Girl Friday (2)
- Knocked Up (0)
- The Lookout (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Dirty Harry (0)
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Waitress / USA / 2007
As much as I loved the female characters—Keri Russell’s Jenna, lost in a world of cold servitude to both her customers and her husband; Cheryl Hine’s Becky, whose loveless marriage forces her to find passion elsewhere; writer-director Adrienne Shelly’s wide-eyed Dawn, who becomes the object of an awkward poet’s affection—this film is purely Andy Griffith’s. As the demanding, foul-mouthed owner of the pie diner, Griffith plays the stereotypical kind-at-heart old man with noticeable ease. But his Old Joe also dispenses the life-learned wisdom that someone like Jenna needs to hear but doesn’t recognize as important; his confession at a wedding late in the film, in which he discusses what his life has meant in terms of love, is heartbreakingly honest. At the same time, his impromptu horoscope reading (combined with Jenna’s mental recipes) makes Waitress a wonderful little film that, had the filmmaker not been so talented, would have wandered directly into kitschy Hallmark territory.
by Adam Balz | Source: Fox Searchlight 35MM Theatrical Print
28 Jun 2007 10:20 PM | Submit Comment
