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.
September 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 31
- Adam (5)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (1)
- Jenny (5)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (2)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 3
- Cry Terror! (0)
- The Thing (0)
- 2 Days in Paris (0)
- If… (0)
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (0)
- The Kingdom (0)
- Hotel Chevalier (1)
- The Grudge 2 (0)
- Wooden Crosses (0)
- Eastern Promises (1)
- Black Snake Moan (0)
- Death Proof (0)
- Bagdad Cafe (0)
- Dead Reckoning (0)
- Superbad (0)
- Bend It Like Beckham (0)
- Atonement (0)
- In Which We Serve (0)
- No End in Sight (0)
- Red Road (0)
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie For Theatres (0)
- Keeping Mum (0)
- McLibel (0)
- Live Flesh (0)
- Fright Night (0)
- Starman (0)
- Death Sentence (0)
- Halloween (0)
- Casino Royale (0)
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (0)
- Rushmore (1)
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Bend It Like Beckham / UK / 2002
I knew this one was going to be pretty lame- a sort of Brit-culture Mighty Ducks- but I was quite unprepared for just how awful. Largely at fault is the script, which piles cliché upon coincidence to produce a messy mélange of other, better films. The acting, too, is dire- Keira Knightly was young and inexperienced, but Jonathan Rhys-Meyers has no such excuse, he’s simply wooden. Parminder Nagra can certainly act- she’s proven that since- but here she’s hamstrung by the aforementioned godawful script. The direction is flat and featureless, the music utterly harrowing.
But the real question is why a director like Chadha (and a number of other British Indian filmmakers) feel so comfortable perpetuating their own tedious, overfamiliar cultural stereotypes, and with so little subtlety: a character actually says the line “What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can’t make round chapattis?”. ‘By the numbers’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: BBC2
17 Sep 2007 12:51 PM | Submit Comment
