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.

August 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 52

Total Comments: 35

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Dead Man’s Shoes / UK / 2004

Unremittingly bleak and yet weirdly funny, Meadows’ suburban-pastoral revenge drama is utterly relentless at times, but it coyly denies the audience any sense of righteousness right up to its gut-wrenching conclusion. With its terrifying amorality and increasingly unstable focalization, the film seems at times like an updated version of Get Carter, with a bit less sexploitation and the gnashing of a slightly straighter set of teeth. But Meadows’ film is so wildly erratic and so contextually specific — and his tone so idiosyncratic, yet assured — that any such flimsy comparison inevitably falls short of the mark. Though most certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, it’s nonetheless a film whose singularity of vision is undeniable.

Here’s what Tom had to say about it.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Magnolia Pictures DVD
01 Aug 2007 1:51 PM | Submit Comment

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