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.


January 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 58

Total Comments: 19


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Crows and Sparrows / Wuya He Maque / China / 1949

This film was made just before the communist revolution in China and depicts a country on the verge of massive social and political upheaval. The politics of the film are distinctly on the left, portraying the various downtrodden residents of a Shanghai apartment building (an academic, a journalist, a pair of merchants forced into the black market, and a gaggle of cute children) and their mistreatment by their landlord (who also happens to be a KMT cronie). But the film successfully creates sympathetic characters and interactions, even with the occasional monologue about uniting the proletariat.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Hen’s Tooth Video VHS
28 Jan 2005 11:03 AM | Submit Comment


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