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
- Adam (9)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (2)
- Rumsey (4)
- Teddy (3)
- Thomas (5)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1)
- Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy (2)
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts (0)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- The Departed (0)
- Knocked Up (5)
- Little Children (0)
- Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Transformers (0)
- Being Michael Madsen (2)
- The GoodTimesKid (0)
- Carefree (0)
- Music and Lyrics (0)
- Inland Empire (0)
- Why We Fight (1)
- Paths of Glory (0)
- Hannah Takes the Stairs (0)
- Superbad (2)
- Jesus Camp (0)
- Titicut Follies (0)
- Ultraviolet (2)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1)
- Seraphim Falls (0)
- The Puffy Chair (1)
- Red Dawn (1)
- Robot Monster (0)
- Touch of Evil (1)
- A Clockwork Orange (7)
- Les Misérables (0)
- The Magnificent Seven (0)
- Nighthawks (0)
- Slaughterhouse Five (0)
- Hot Fuzz (2)
- Sunshine (0)
- Rescue Dawn (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- The 11th Hour (0)
- Shanghai Express (0)
- Trasgredire (0)
- Faces (0)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (0)
- Viva Baseball! (0)
- Holiday (0)
- Cloak & Dagger (6)
- Oepidus Rex (0)
- Dead Man’s Shoes (0)
- Sunshine (0)
- This Is England (0)
- Sweet Smell of Success (1)
- Once (0)
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Seraphim Falls / USA / 2006
Pierce Brosnan spent seven long years playing James Bond when he could have been making great indie films like this. Seraphim Falls is a Western in the tradition of John Ford’s The Searchers, that model tales of vengeance across the untamed West. What begins in the snow-drenched hills of the American Southwest ends atop a lake of boiling sand, where Brosnan’s Gideon and an old Confederate colonel, played by Liam Neeson, finally confront one another over the past.
The past, as it happens, is presented to us in flashback—the worst aspect of the film. While others deride David Von Ancken’s feature debut for its slow descent into the bizarre—a Native American at a puddle of water, Angelica Houston as an underhanded mystical peddler (apparently, you can’t do a great American Western without some member of the Houston family involved)—it’s those aspects that make Seraphim Falls so enthralling. The American West was a cruel idea—a borderless realm of misery and sedition made into mystical shining gold by dime novelists. The depiction of the world beyond the Mississippi River, post-1850s, is one of surprise, deception, and death.
by Adam Balz | Source: Destination Films DVD
23 Aug 2007 2:04 PM | Submit Comment
