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.
December 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 47
- Adam (6)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (8)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (6)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (2)
Total Comments: 12
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (4)
- Zodiac (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- The Savages (0)
- Hell and High Water (0)
- The Witnesses (0)
- Keane (0)
- We Own The Night (0)
- The Golden Compass (2)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (0)
- Michael Clayton (3)
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (0)
- Scrooged (1)
- Dangerous Days (0)
- Harvey (0)
- Blade Runner (0)
- The Passing Show (0)
- In The Line Of Fire (0)
- Peeping Tom (0)
- Control (0)
- Rescue Dawn (1)
- The Kingdom (0)
- Superbad (0)
- Mildred Pierce (0)
- Knocked Up (0)
- Beowulf (1)
- Now, Voyager (0)
- A Girl Cut In Two (0)
- Alexandra (0)
- Dune (0)
- Absolute Wilson (0)
- Berserk! (0)
- Fast Food Nation (0)
- Bewitched (0)
- Helvetica (0)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (0)
- Love Songs (0)
- Lady Chatterley (0)
- No Reservations (0)
- Juno (0)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- Death Proof (0)
- Control (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- Once (0)
- Blue Velvet (0)
- The Mist (0)
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Eastern Promises / UK / Canada / USA / 2007
The bath house sequence notwithstanding – which is a formidable tour-de-force – this doesn’t really cohere with Cronenberg’s other work—it’s a thriller with a shape-shifting notion of one’s self, I guess, but the shape-shifting is here unreasonably spontaneous. When Tom Stahl (Viggo Mortensen in A History of Violence) is stabbed in the foot, the wound is considerably visceral, and it produces a limp that accompanies him in his trek to Philidelphia, a reminder of his prior life as a professional criminal. Mortensen’s Nikolai has his body strewn in tattoos that declare his eligibility in the Russian mafia, but these are deceptive, they’re more like bumper stickers than they are denotations of history, strife, and harm. Auteurist posturing aside, I say without derision that Mortensen and Vincent Cassel’s performances make for some wonderful, accent-laden banter.
Jit’s review / Tom’s remarks / Leo’s remarks / Adam’s remarks
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: DVD screener
09 Dec 2007 2:51 PM | Submit Comment