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.


February 2008 activity

Total Log Entries: 38

Total Comments: 22


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Subway / France / 1985

Besson’s underground world is stylishly rendered (if quite eighties), and his film is not without its spiky-haired charms. Isabelle Adjani is the bored rich man’s wife – her earrings drip diamonds in her first appearance – who falls for her slick blackmailer, Fred, played by Christopher Lambert. They rebel rather cutely: she wears a punk coif and tells off the guests at a fancy dinner with her husband; he puts together a rock band to perform in place of an orchestra. Even Besson doesn’t seem to take all of this very seriously, which is probably a good thing. There isn’t much heft to this story, but it does seem to sound better in French.

by Victoria Large | Source: Columbia Tri-Star DVD
01 Feb 2008 2:03 PM | Submit Comment


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