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
4 / Chetyre / Russia / 2006
Normally, this is the kind of film I would leap to praise—for its near poetic treatment of imagery, its wavering use and disuse of dialogue, its unabashed fixation on everything unstructured and symbolic. And there’s a grating thought existing somewhere in my mind that says, yes, this is a great film, a work of borderline brilliance. But I want to know why everything looks the way it does, and if everything I think about this film is true. Ilya Khrjanovsky’s 126-minute film is a puzzle without any matching pieces; the “round piglets,” the story of Russian “doubles” numbering in the tens of thousands, the blond twins, the Cold War-era meat-freezer, the millennial setting, the drunken old women, the dogs—I feel the need to assign meaning and purpose, simply because the director’s use of “4” drives me to. And yet Khrjanovsky dangles the entire plotline above my head like a teasing adult. A lot of critics have denounces his film as boring and indulgent and, in one oddly complementary instance, a “bad cheese dream”; I think it’s just right, and that thought drives me nuts.
by Adam Balz | Source: Red Envelope Entertainment DVD
15 Oct 2007 1:01 PM | Submit Comment
