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
- Adam (10)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- Breach (0)
- Rescue Dawn (0)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (0)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- They Drive By Night (0)
- Live Free Or Die Hard (0)
- 28 Weeks Later (0)
- Das Leben Der Anderen (0)
- The Simpsons Movie (0)
- The Lake House (0)
- Slither (0)
- The Prestige (0)
- Hana (0)
- Gamlet (0)
- Notes On A Scandal (0)
- 1900 (0)
- Babyface (0)
- Black Snake Moan (0)
- Old Joy (0)
- Mr. Brooks (0)
- Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix (0)
- Dreamscape (0)
- The Petrified Forest (0)
- Zodiac (0)
- Hannibal Rising (0)
- End Of The Century (0)
- I Know Where i’m Going (0)
- Roots Daughters (0)
- Beerfest (0)
- Braindead (0)
- Run, Fat Boy, Run (0)
- Once (0)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (0)
- Deliver Us from Evil (1)
- The Fountain (0)
- Transformers (0)
- Transformers (2)
- The Holy Mountain (0)
- El Topo (0)
- Nightmare Alley (2)
- Spartan (0)
- The Magic Christian (0)
- Live Free or Die Hard (1)
- Orca (1)
- Find Me Guilty (1)
- Reign Over Me (0)
- Hannibal (0)
- Kingpin (0)
- Wet Hot American Summer (5)
- Tzameti (1)
- Daratt (0)
- Legacy (0)
- Hardware (0)
- Marie Antoinette (0)
Full Archive
Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix / UK/USA / 2007
The worst of the books (and trust me, that’s saying something) becomes a decent if slightly disappointing movie, a definite step down from either of it’s excellent immediate predecessors. This time they’re clearly hamstrung by the source material- there are too many subplots, and not enough time to develop them all. Characters wander in and out, the cream of British acting talent reduced to a few portentous lines or, in the case of David Thewlis, one or two meaningful glances.
Director David Yates tries to give the whole thing a sense of scale, but he’s no Alfonso Cuaron, or even Mike Newell- after a riveting, gritty opening scene the visuals descend into the usual mix of dubious CGI and snaking camera movement. And the whole thing just feels terribly small scale after the sprawling episode four, with it’s pokey, one-location climax over much too soon. But it’s consistently entertaining, and still leagues ahead of those unwatchably dull first two chapters.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
21 Jul 2007 11:05 AM | Submit Comment
