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This represents a full month of viewing. I feel ashamed not only at the small number of films here, but also at the level of writing, which is rather cursory. I apologize.

Films Watched August 6 - September 2

Sunshine (Danny Boyle, 2007) - For the first two-thirds of its running time I thought this was on its way to being one of the best ( Read more... )

Apologies for my long long absence from film commentary. I'm going to try my darnedest not to have any more ridiculous lapses in my screening log.

ASIDE:
A few days ago I found this excellent article from Cinema Scope that not only talks about many of the things that make Otar Iosseliani's films so special but also lays out a fascinating theory ( Read more... )

Since I am ostensibly writing a film blog here (which hasn't been updated in -- yikes, four weeks?) it seems like I ought to comment in some way about the simultaneous deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni earlier this week. I don't want to fall into the "end of an era" trap that danschank recently talked about, and I especially don't want to ( Read more... )

Films Watched June 11 - June 24

( Men, Music, Mozart )

Films Watched May 28 - June 10

Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link, 2001) - Jewish refugee family moves to Kenya fleeing Germany in the 1930's. The (based-on-a-true-)story is interesting enough that only an idiot could make it uninteresting, and the acting is rather excellent from the entire cast. But I found it lacked resonance and there's ( Read more... )

Films Watched May 14 - May 27


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My screening log finally returns! It's been a month and a half since my last log post, but as I've been busy there aren't too many films I have to talk about -- though there is an ungodly amount of Star Trek episodes to cover. Given that it's been so long since I've watched some of these, and I didn't have the energy to write more detailed posts ( Read more... )

Films Watched March 12 - March 25

L'Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, 2006) - When you're broke -- even if your version of "broke" is "my parents have to buy everything for me" -- you become keenly aware of exactly how much money you're spending and exactly what it's going to cost to go on. The passage of funds becomes more immediately ( Read more... )

My regular screening log will be posted tomorrow ( Read more... )