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
Avida / France / 2006
Avida, the second film from directors Benoit Delepine and Gustave de Kervern, opens with a close-up of thick gray lips moving like two slugs, then cuts to Fernando Arrabal dressed as a picador. He is seated in a dark hallway, agonizing over his fate, then enters a dusty makeshift ring and battles a rhinoceros. This is his suicide.
In the scenes that follow, the storyline of Avida descends into the wonderfully bizarre. Bathed in the fresh, undisguised style of the filmmaker’s absurdist and surrealist predecessors, Delepine and De Kervern’s film—the story of three men who kidnap a rich woman’s dog, then must help her fulfill a death wish—is kept consistently droll by their disuse of color; with the notable exception of one scene, the entire film is shot in black and white. It creates a stark, blatant world where lives operated by remote control seem lethal, and a break from it all seems necessary.
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
07 Oct 2007 12:15 AM | Comments (7)
avida / 8 October 2007 / 10:59 AM
why is the film called avida?
Adam B. / 8 October 2007 / 11:57 AM / URL
Avida is the dog-owner with the death-wish.
Michal Livny / 8 October 2007 / 11:13 PM
Adam B., Do you know the origine of the name Avida? If not, and you wish to know, please let me know.
Adam B. / 9 October 2007 / 5:46 AM / URL
I assume you mean the nickname bestowed on Salvador Dali by Andre Breton, who was disgusted with the artist’s sudden lust for money and celebrity. That, or the very cool-sounding software platform.
Michal Livny / 9 October 2007 / 8:28 AM
No, I mean the biblical name. For reference purposes please open the Book of Genesis, chapter 25, verse 4. It has nothing to do with Salvador Dali. Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Adam Balz / 9 October 2007 / 8:58 AM / URL
I have no idea what this has to do with the movie, but oh well, I’m sticking with “Avida Dollars”
Michal Livny / 9 October 2007 / 1:01 PM
Not much except the fact that the Hebrew of Abidah is Avida and it’s a male name in Hebrew. Good night