Screening Notes Archive

From my introduction to #1:

"For a while now, I've aimed to find a solution to the endless pile-up of movies I see and don't end up writing about right away. The problem has increased exponentially the more work I have to do outside of blogging, and it just so happens that I'm in the thick of pre-production on a new short film right now, so matters have become worse. Less time to write, less time to commit myself to thinking about a movie for four or five consecutive hours. So the ideal way to solve this is to do quick-and-dirty write-ups on all these stray films, making sure I don't forget my primary thoughts on them by the time I do a formal essay. Therefore, I present "Screening Notes", an idea heavily indebted to Ryland Walker Knight's "Viewing Logs" over at his blog Vinyl is Heavy. I like the off-the-cuff quality to his work, and I find myself reading it (and other work like it) with more frequency than long-form essays simply because I don't have as much time to devote to them. This is not to say that I will be eschewing my common approach at all; I just hate to find myself abandoning films because I forget what I wanted to say about them in the first place. Here's the first entry in what will likely be a continuing journal of notes, and as you'll see, my notes will refer to both full features I've seen and other various media clips (single scenes, short films, youtube videos, etc.)."

(Click the number to be taken to the notes.)

1

Lost in Translation (2003), Leon the Professional (1994), Marie Antoinette (2006), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), The Lord of the Rings (The Return of the King) (2003)

2

Secretary (2002), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), Trash Humpers (2009), Some Like it Hot (1959), Another Year (2010), In Bruges (2008)

3

The Others (2001), Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995), Arrested Development (Season 1, Episodes 1-9, 2003), The Conversation (1974), Minority Report (2002)

4

Summer Hours (2008), Adaptation (2002), Arrested Development (Season 1 9-22, Season 2 1-5), Certified Copy (2010), Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Hadewijch (2009)

5

Cold Weather (2010), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011), Tung (1966), Apricot, Some Static Started (2009, 2010)

6

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and 2 (2010, 2011), Louie: Season 2 (2011), Mars Attacks! (1996), 500 Days of Summer (2009)

7

Scarface (1932), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Baxter (2005), Rango (2011), Louie (2011), Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 7 and 8)

8

Not One Less (1999), Mouchette (1967), Khabi Kushi Khabi Gham... (2001), The Clock (2010)

9

Tokyo Sonata (2008), Last Life in the Universe (2003), Paprika (2006), Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989), The Big Chill (1983), Ring (2007), Starsky and Hutch (2004)

10

Luck (Episode 1 and 2) (2012), Skinflick (2002), Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971), Beats Being Dead (2011), Bergman Island (2004)

11

Sarabande (2008), The White Rose (1967), New York Portrait: Chapter 1 (1979), Passage à l'acte (1993), No Country for Old Men (2008)

12

The Conformist (1970), Ashes (2012), Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012), Street of Crocodiles (1987), Jabberwocky (1971)

13

Phone Booth (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Wedlock House: An Intercourse (1959), Desistfilm (1954), Girls (Season 1 Pilot) (2012)

14

It Happened One Night (1934), The Thin Man (1934), Design for Living (1933), Days of Heaven (1978), Grand Illusion (1937), The Last Bolshevik (1993), One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich (1999), The Exorcist (1973), How The West Was Won (1962)

15

The Loneliest Planet (2011), His Girl Friday (1940), Midnight (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), The Lady Eve (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), Argo (2012), Saraband (2003), Magic Mike (2012), Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011), Mean Girls (2004), Rise of the Guardians (2012)

16

The Hobbit (2012), Skyfall (2012), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Lolita (1962), Clockwork Orange (1971), Barry Lyndon (1975), Silent Mountains, Singing Oceans, and Slivers of Time: Six Films by David Gatten (1998-2010)

17

Promised Land (2012), Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Epizootics! (Music Video, 2012), 2 Days in New York (2012), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), Damsels in Distress (2011), On Spec (2012)

18

The Day He Arrives (2011), Make Way for Tomorrow (1937), Keyhole (2011), Unstoppable (2010), Faust (1926), China Gate (1957), Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Go! Go! Go! (1962-64), Geography of the Body (1946)

19

Nostalgia for the Light (2010), Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-1972), Plumbline (1968), Letter to Jane (1972), Reflecting Pool (1977-79), Mondomanila (2012), See You Next Tuesday (2013), From Up On Poppy Hill (2013), American Movie (1999), Mud (2012), It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve: Masao Adachi (2011), Night Across the Street (2012), Time Regained (1984), Utamoro and His Five Women (1946)

20

Leones (2012), The Inner Scar (1972), The Searchers (1956), Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), Almayer's Folly (2011), The Act of Killing (2013), The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1997), Blue Jasmine (2013), Museum Hours (2013)

21

Backyard (1984), Of Time and the City (2008), Carrie (1976), Duck Soup (1933), The Mother and The Whore (1973), The Evil Dead (1981), Black Sabbath (1963)

22 (2013 Year-End Catch-Up Blurbs)

Stories We Tell (2013), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

23 (2013 Year-End Catch-Up Blurbs)

Nebraska (2013), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), The Last Time I Saw Macao (2013)

24

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (2009), Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), Gremlins (1984), Taken (2008), Taurus (2001), Faust (2011), The Color Wheel (2011)