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.
January 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 53
- Adam (8)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- Cullen (0)
- David (12)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (4)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (1)
- Thomas (2)
- Victoria (3)
Total Comments: 41
- Land of the Minotaur (0)
- Don’t Go in the Woods (0)
- Road House (0)
- There Will Be Blood (18)
- Vixen! (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- Prisoners of the Lost Universe (0)
- Firing Line (0)
- Blue Skies (1)
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (0)
- Wild at Heart (1)
- Gone Baby Gone (1)
- The Shop Around The Corner (0)
- La Vie En Rose (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Die Hard With A Vengeance (5)
- Coal Miner’s Daughter (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (0)
- Tenebre (0)
- Voodoo Black Exorcist (0)
- Death By Dialogue (0)
- WR: Mysteries of the Organism (0)
- Saved! (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (2)
- Wall Street (0)
- Dreamcatcher (1)
- Halloween (2)
- Fearless (0)
- Atonement (1)
- Youth Without Youth (0)
- Dans la Ville de Sylvia (0)
- Offside (3)
- Scoop (0)
- The Man From London (0)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (0)
- RoboCop 3 (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- For Your Consideration (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- Prime Time (0)
- The Manipulator (0)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Flash Gordon (0)
- I Am Legend (3)
- Week End (0)
- Southland Tales (0)
- No Country For Old Men (0)
- Wild Hogs (0)
- Futurama: Bender’s Big Score (0)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (3)
- Epic Movie (0)
- The Elephant Man (0)
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Southland Tales / USA / 2007
The critical reaction to this film has been, for lack of a better term, interesting: Some love it; most hate it. And considering its disastrous reception at Cannes, I’m surprised Sony Pictures decided to buy it at all. (In exchange for special-effects cash, Kelly had to cut at least a half-hour of material.) That said, this was one of my favorite films of last year, not just because it’s wildly postmodern—an up-scale rock-and-punk homage to Pynchon and Philip K. Dick and David Lynch, complemented with a winking performance by busty Rebekah Del Rio—but because it did what so many films today refuse to do: actively divide the audience. During its 144-minute run-time, Southland Tales elicited the full choir of emotions, making you feel happy and confused and depressed and bored and pissed off. Scorsese will never do that, and neither will Spielberg or Coppola—it risks branding them as something other than consistent and commercially appealing auteurs. (Ironically, another 2007 film, Julie Taylor’s Across the Universe, did the very same thing, only with a full-on glitz-gusto abandon that left most moviegoers with throbbing headaches.) If Southland Tales had been any less incoherent, Kelly would have failed—this is both his celebration of, and attack on, cinema. And given that a DVD is due out in early March, I’ll have two more months to think over this film before I can watch it again and, hopefully, flesh out my thoughts into a full, blathering, reference-heavy review.
Victoria’s Review, Rumsey’s Thoughts
by Adam Balz | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
02 Jan 2008 4:36 PM | Submit Comment
