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.
October 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 46
- Adam (12)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (18)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (2)
- Thomas (2)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 12
- The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman (0)
- Les Enfants Terribles (0)
- 3:10 To Yuma (0)
- The Kingdom (0)
- Orchestra Rehearsal (0)
- The Voice of the Moon (0)
- Ginger and Fred (0)
- No Country for Old Men (0)
- The Wicker Man (0)
- 28 Days Later (0)
- Braindead (0)
- Shaun of the Dead (0)
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects (0)
- Project Grizzly (0)
- The Host (0)
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend (0)
- Crazy Love (0)
- Freaks (0)
- Cat People (1)
- Toby Dammit (0)
- The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (0)
- A Marriage Agency (0)
- 4 (0)
- The Bridge (0)
- Severance (0)
- The Clowns (0)
- Amarcord (0)
- City of Women (0)
- Boys and Girls (0)
- Breaking and Entering (0)
- The Proposition (1)
- The Baron of Arizona (0)
- I Shot Jesse James (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- No Country for Old Men (1)
- Avida (7)
- Dragon Wars (1)
- The Boss of it All (0)
- L’Iceberg (0)
- Lust, Caution (0)
- Bonnie And Clyde (0)
- The Alps (1)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- Zoo (0)
- Lenny (0)
- Klute (0)
Full Archive
The Boss of it All / Direktoren for det hele / Denmark / Sweden / Iceland / Italy / France / Norway / Finland / Germany / 2006
A lot has been made of Von Trier’s recent confession that he derives “no pleasure from filmmaking.” Considering his usual style and subject, one is forced to wonder: If his pleasureless-but-content self is represented by the warped and instinctively bleak works of the last ten years—Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Manderlay—what does the mind of a depressed Von Trier look like? Moreover, how does one balance that image of the complex, phobic Dane with The Boss of It All, a lighthearted office comedy?
Von Trier, embracing an amusingly deconstructive form, narrates his film as it progresses; beginning as a reflection in office windows, his eye pressed to the camera, he becomes a cinematic John Barth. When a scene requires something cliched, such as the introduction of a new character to advance the story’s progression, he lets us know. It’s refreshing and, at the same time, essential to a film about how years of compound storytelling leads to disaster and, eventually, redemption.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
07 Oct 2007 12:10 AM | Submit Comment
