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.

July 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 54

Total Comments: 14

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Deliver Us from Evil / USA / 2006

Much of Deliver Us from Evil is an exposé of Oliver O’Grady, a Californian parish priest who, beginning in the late 70s, was tried and exiled for the abuse of many dozens of children. Catholic pedophilia isn’t a particularly unexploited topic, so it is admirable that Amy Berg documents O’Grady so sensitively—he speaks of his crimes without repression, and it is often disturbing. I say “sensitively” because this would have been an a potent target for a tabloid agenda, and even that may have resulted in at least a moderately engaging document. But because O’Grady isn’t initially revealed to be a monster, the extent and particularity of his crimes – revealed in accrual during the course of the film – becomes all the more inhumane.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Lionsgate DVD
09 Jul 2007 10:13 AM | Comments (1)

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  1. Rumsey / 15 July 2007 / 8:01 AM / URL

    Relatedly: Diocese to settle sex-abuse claims for $660 million:

    It is by far the largest payout in the church’s sexual abuse scandal, and it exceeded earlier reports from sources that the settlement would be between $600 million and $650 million — between $1.2 million and $1.3 million per plaintiff.

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