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
- Adam (6)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (3)
- Eva (4)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (4)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (4)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (5)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 22
- Juno (8)
- Electroma (1)
- The Room (0)
- Grave Robbers (0)
- The Roost (0)
- The Power of Nightmares (0)
- Axe (0)
- The Room (0)
- How She Move (2)
- Step Up 2 the Streets (0)
- The Phynx (0)
- The Oh in Ohio (0)
- Chicago 10 (0)
- Billy the Kid (0)
- The Visitor (0)
- Kisses For My President (0)
- Re-Animator (0)
- There Will Be Blood (3)
- The Ten (3)
- Atonement (0)
- Shoot ‘Em UP (0)
- Beach Girls (0)
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula (0)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (0)
- How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (0)
- The King Of Kong (1)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Golden Compass (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- The Cremator (0)
- Great World Of Sound (0)
- Sweeney Todd (2)
- Throne Of Blood (2)
- Zodiac (0)
- Away From Her (0)
- Reeker (0)
- 27 Dresses (0)
- Subway (0)
Full Archive
Great World Of Sound / USA / 2007
This one seems to have slipped between the cracks, enjoying a brief festival run last year then disappearing. Which is a shame, because this is a nicely written, wonderfully acted comic morality play, exploring the exploitation of art by business, and the pitfalls and potential rewards that follow. Produced by David Gordon Green, it bears many similarities to his work as a director- naturalistic lighting and scripting, a well chosen soundtrack and a nice line in improvisational acting.
Pat Healy plays Martin, an ex- radio tech who takes a job as an A&R man for a small music production company in Charlotte, North Carolina, only to find that his bosses are pocketing the cash and leaving the artists out in the cold. The film centres around a series of lengthy and humorous audition sequences, in which desperate (and often comically bad) singers and songwriters attempt to impress Martin and his curmudgeonly partner Clarence in their wares, but quickly descends into far darker territory as the scale of the company’s deception becomes clear. Perhaps a little slight and winsome for it’s own good, this is nonetheless a sterling first feature, and deserves greater attention.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
04 Feb 2008 12:27 PM | Submit Comment
