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)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (18)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (2)
- Thomas (2)
- Timothy (0)
- 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)
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City of Women / La Città delle donne / Italy / France / 1980
City of Women is in one respect quite a historical artifact—a reminder of how much males felt threatened by the feminism of the day. It’s rather like the harem sequence from 8 ½ expanded into a full-length feature, and in Marcello Mastroianni’s character you can feel free either to admire Fellini’s self-awareness of the ludicrousness of his alter ego’s sexualised view of women or to be annoyed by Fellini’s simultaneous indulgence in it. There are some nice set pieces but it does all go on a bit too long, and although the repeating dream structure is a nice idea (we plunge into a Freudian train tunnel at the start of the film, and then again at the end, literally stuck in the dark of the tunnel as the credits end), visually the film is disappointing, very drab and unimaginative compared to past glories.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
14 Oct 2007 12:02 PM | Submit Comment