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)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (8)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (6)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (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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Helvetica / UK / 2007
The story of how one simple Swiss typeface transformed our world into something indelibly boring. I suppose, in the great debate over this expressionless revolution, I fall on the side of David Carson and Paula Scher, who find it overused and dehumanizing. (It leading us to war, though, is a bit much, even for a typeface.) Then again, I’m not even an amateur specialist in this field, so my opinion means nil.1 Still, it’s a great documentary that shines a light on how every aspect of the world around us—from words and colors to styles and locations—influences how we act, and one that makes me incredibly jealous of DOP Luke Geissbuhler, who travelled around the world with a camera and filmed the alphabet.
1 Nevertheless, I can’t help but feeling Michael Bierut, filmed herein extolling the virtues of bland 1980s advertisements over kitschy, color-ridden magazine ads from Truman-Eisenhower era, has a very dull sense of creativity.
by Adam Balz | Source: Red Envelope Entertainment DVD
17 Dec 2007 8:09 PM | Submit Comment
