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.
April 2008 activity
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Funny Ha Ha / USA / 2002
Both this and the Duplass brothers’ The Puffy Chair (which I also saw recently) are considered cornerstones to a rather frowned upon genre I relent to refer to by (its inane) name. But these are two very different films—one, a road trip in which the participants grow increasingly cognizant of themselves and others, and the other a frustrated telling of the occupational malaise that accompanies most of us upon our college graduation. The similarities between the two are in their hand-held camerawork and presumed improvisation. These similarities are only superficial, and my problem with their collation in genre is that it’s half-hearted and ultimately reductive.
Incidentally, academic Ray Carney champions both of these films with enough hyperbole to stir a hibernating polar bear.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Wellspring DVD
13 Apr 2008 10:01 PM | Submit Comment