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
Blade Runner / The Final Cut / USA / 1982
How do you improve on perfection? Well, you don’t, at least not too much. A little dialogue tweak here, an added special effect there, some recolouration and audio balancing and you’re done. Because Blade Runner truly is, in many ways, a perfect film. Most obviously in it’s production design and art direction which, even on a big screen, still looks completely seamless. The level of detail on display is staggering, sets and costumes utterly alien but still oddly familiar. The characters are no more or less than they need to be, portrayed by actors generously willing to subsume themselves within Ridley Scott’s grand vision. Vangelis’ music seems to actually improve over time, despite it’s distinctively 80’s synth sound. The plot is derivative but wonderfully direct, and the script says everything it needs to say in as few words as possible (though Rutger Hauer does get a few too many lines during the chase scene- ‘You’d better get it up, or I’m gonna have to kill ya!’ is probably the film’s daftest moment).
by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
20 Dec 2007 9:16 AM | Submit Comment
