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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A Girl Cut In Two / La Fille coupée en deux / Germany / France / 2007
Of all the New Wave directors still with us, Chabrol is the most prolific and, it seems, the least celebrated (compare the critical attention given to Resnais’ and Rohmer’s less than thrilling latest efforts), probably because of the narrow genre limits he works within, the bourgeoisie-set crime drama. A Girl Cut In Two is a dark delight, a story (a young and innocent TV weather girl swings between her much older, corrupting novelist lover and a near-psychotic rich wastrel) where all the characters in some way behave in ways they shouldn’t but where Chabrol in the end holds back on moral judgment. (Even the rich-bitch mother-in-law — an otherwise fine object of Chabrolian animus, à la Betty — has her validating moment.) It’s all tied together at the end when Chabrol abandons his standard realism for a marvellous poetic-symbolic illustration of the title.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
19 Dec 2007 10:26 PM | Submit Comment