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
3:10 To Yuma / USA / 2007
Delmer Daves’ original is an absolute gem of narrative, directorial and acting precision, and the overblown quality of James Mangold’s remake had me worried. So, we get a burning barn in the opening scene, as if otherwise we can’t comprehend the financial threat to the farm. There’s an overextended attack on a stagecoach where a Gatling gun is thrown into the mix so there’s more things getting blown up in the modern style. And Christian Bale’s farmer is now given a wooden foot, as if we otherwise couldn’t see how Ben Wade emasculates him in front of his wife and son — although Van Heflin and Glenn Ford were perfectly able to do it without the wooden foot fifty years ago. But in the end, it works pretty well, Russell Crowe does a good job with a convincing mix of ruthless criminality and better-natured charm, and the changes that are made to the film at the end are ones that no doubt make the story more credible to a modern audience while still preserving the moral force of Elmore Leonard’s original story. (Although I also can’t help wondering do we really need this remake?)
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
28 Oct 2007 1:50 PM | Submit Comment
