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.
March 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 17
- Adam (2)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (3)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (3)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (2)
- Rumsey (1)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 5
- Snow Angels (0)
- The Wrong Man (0)
- Notorious (0)
- Shriek of the Mutilated (0)
- The Most Dangerous Game (0)
- Escape 2000 (2)
- Superchick (0)
- Absolute Wilson (0)
- Troll (0)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (2)
- The Invasion (0)
- Evening (1)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (0)
- Atlantis Interceptors (0)
- Stryker (0)
- Women’s Camp 119 (0)
- Blood & Chocolate (0)
Full Archive
Evening / USA / Germany / 2007
A film just as arrogant and pathetic as its characters, Evening, co-written by Michael Cunningham and Susan Minot, decides halfway through that it wants to be The Great Gatsby. The character of Buddy, having failed to inspire love with the plot of his own Fitzgerald-esque novel, retreats to his family mansion, its lights ablaze. Later, as he drunkenly follows Claire Danes’ Ann and Patrick Wilson’s Harris through the forest, he is struck by a car. Falling to the roadside, the car speeds away and we hear the hoot of an owl.
Overbearing, to say the least, but credit must be paid to Glenn Close for understanding exactly what kind of movie she agreed to star in. Her stately matriarch is a rich B-movie brew of arrogance, self-loathing, latent homophobia, and shallow emotional emptiness. The very few scenes in which she appears—planning a wedding reception, discovering her daughter innocently in bed with another woman, falling apart after Buddy’s death—are riveting in their shear awfulness. Close knows her character, a woman with no reservations about her upper-class status and no misgivings about her absolute lack of self-worth, and basks brilliantly in every minute.
by Adam Balz | Source: DVD
11 Mar 2008 11:35 AM | Comments (1)
Marina / 11 March 2008 / 1:26 PM / URL
I didn’t have problems with the acting but I did take serious issue with the constant back and forth jumping in the timelines. There was never enough time to really get to know the characters and as a result, everything else suffers. A gorgeous film but really disappointing.