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
Total Log Entries: 17
- Adam (2)
- Chet (1)
- Chiranjit (2)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (2)
- Ian (2)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (3)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 3
- Hannah and Her Sisters (0)
- 21 (0)
- Baby Mama (0)
- Momma’s Man (0)
- Sopyonje (0)
- The Case (0)
- Godzilla 2000 (1)
- Yella (0)
- Swept Away (0)
- Miracle Mile (0)
- Funny Ha Ha (0)
- The Fifth Cord (0)
- The Drácula Saga (0)
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (0)
- High Anxiety (0)
- Help! (2)
- 1990: The Bronx Warriors (0)
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Hannah and Her Sisters / USA / 1986
Despite the acclaim that Allen’s film often receives, I’ve never really felt any substantial connection to the events, situations, or characters depicted within Hannah and Her Sisters, so the film always exudes a certain distant, unfamiliar, almost foreign sensation. Even Mickey’s search for spiritual significance feels far too broad, shallow, and silly. Fortunately, even though Allen may be borrowing from his prior material, the subplot involving Mickey’s quest for some form of spiritual enlightenment does yield the film’s most hilarious moment, when Mickey’s father utters the line “How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don’t know how the can opener works!”
On a totally pointless side-note, I always find it weird to watch Sam Waterston and Dianne Wiest dating each other within this film after watching her play the role of his rather indecisive boss on Law & Order.
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: MGM DVD
30 Apr 2008 7:11 PM | Submit Comment
