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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Amarcord / Italy / France / 1973
The nice thing about Amarcord is its tone of quiet melancholy. This re-imagining of Fellini’s childhood in provincial Rimini in the thirties plays as a series of sketches, where sometimes little more than mood is invoked and the sequence fades out on a note of peaceful epiphany (the peacock in the snow). At other times any cracks in the structure are successfully papered over by extended Nino Rota tunes. There’s some ritualistic mocking of Mussolini’s fascism but it seems pretty half-hearted compared to what other Italian directors were doing at the same time (The Conformist or Marco Leto’s sadly little-known La Villeggiatura). Fellini’s at his best in the final wedding sequence, in the way it slowly winds down until only a few guests are left in the near empty landscape; then they too leave, and the film quietly, slowly fades out.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
14 Oct 2007 12:09 PM | Submit Comment