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)
Full Archive
La Vie En Rose / La Mome / France / 2007
Probably the best reviewed French film of last year, this is a fairly standard biopic that never tries to do much with the form, but coasts through on charm, period detail and a fascinating, (to this reviewer) unfamiliar rags-to-riches narrative. But Marion Cotillard deserves all the plaudits for her performance as the Little Sparrow- her transformation from tomboy street urchin to heroin addicted egomaniac is astonishing, even if she doesn’t go the whole hog and sing the songs herself. The last half hour of the film is genuinely moving, descending into inevitable tragedy without ever resorting to schmaltz.
A quick note, though- is this the first time that a film has replaced it’s original French title (La Mome) with a title aimed at the international market which is itself also in French? Seems odd.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
17 Jan 2008 11:33 AM | Submit Comment
