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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Zodiac / USA / 2007
If you asked me a month ago what my favorite David Fincher film was, I probably would have said Alien 3 (which, given the state of that franchise, doesn’t look so bad these days, I promise you). So, in this respect, Zodiac — that near-ubiquitous year-end fave — comes as a big and very welcome surprise. It still doesn’t rank very highly in my own estimation of the year’s best films (for example, I simply do not understand the point of all that CGI San Fran), but it’s wonderfully paced, brilliantly acted, and, at almost three hours, completely engrossing.
I suppose that last quality will largely depend upon whether or not you get the whole pointless obsessiveness thing — an appreciation which, according to a very limited polling of my friends, largely depends upon your gender. But no matter: Zodiac is still a cracking film, made even more unnerving by its very pointlessness.
Beth’s Thoughts | Rumsey’s Thoughts | Chiranjit’s Thoughts | Adam’s Thoughts | Tom’s Thoughts
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Brothers DVD
31 Dec 2007 1:44 PM | Submit Comment