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)
Full Archive
Rescue Dawn / USA / 2007
I don’t think I quite get Christian Bale. Sure, he’s dependable, and committed, and chiseled. But he just doesn’t seem desperately interesting. Whether donning the black mask and fighting crime or starving himself to death, whether hacking women to bits or fleeing a VietCong internment camp, he always seems a little detached, occasionally flashing into life before relapsing into a strange, robotic state. Perhaps it’s just that he’s too private, we know fairly little about him. Or perhaps he just lacks personality. Either way, I find it very hard to get excited about watching him onscreen, and he’s yet to play a character I can really relate to, though Dieter Dengler comes close.
But that said, Rescue Dawn is still one of the year’s most straightforwardly enjoyable pictures, a no-frills account of imprisonment, escape and redemption set against a beautifully photographed jungle landscape. Continuing many of Herzog’s best loved themes- obsession and willfulness, men alone against nature- the film tells an extraordinary true story in stark, unembellished but always riveting style.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
20 Dec 2007 9:09 AM | Comments (1)
Ben Weeks / 1 January 2008 / 7:08 PM
What about The Prestige?
As far as this goes, all your comments about the actor could apply to the film and vice versa.