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.
March 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (2)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (12)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- Police Academy (0)
- Mannequin (2)
- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary (0)
- Downfall (0)
- Millions (0)
- Trouble Every Day (1)
- The Great Ziegfeld (0)
- The Jerk (0)
- Stripes (0)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (0)
- Torchy Blane in Chinatown (0)
- Control Room (0)
- Monterey Pop: The Outtake Performances (2)
- Gimme Shelter (0)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension! (0)
- The Work of Director Michel Gondry (0)
- The Serpent and the Rainbow (1)
- Dracula’s Daughter (0)
- The Devil’s Nightmare (0)
- The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb (0)
- In This Our Life (0)
- Song of the Exile (0)
- Pierrot le Fou (1)
- L’Eclisse (0)
- 976-EVIL (0)
- The Truman Show (0)
- Dumb and Dumber (0)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Tropical Malady (0)
- Stop Making Sense (0)
- Sweet Charity (0)
- Weekend at Bernie’s II (2)
- M (5)
- Dear Frankie (0)
- Krull (0)
- The Hanging Woman (0)
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Sweet Charity / USA / 1969
I’ve had this sitting in my DVD collection for exactly two years. I never got around to watching it because, even though I adore Bob Fosse, I was afraid that two hours and thirty-three minutes of Shirley MacLaine might actually kill me. Luckily, I was wrong.
As Fosse’ first directorial effort, it’s pretty amazing. Some of the non-singing, non-dancing scenes can be a snooze, but once the music cranks up and those leggy dancers get to snapping their fingers and rolling their wrists in that unmistakable Fosse fashion, it’s wild. Some of the song-and-dance numbers still look very fresh and modern, particularly “Hey, Big Spender.” That makes Moulin Rouge look like a cheap music video.
by Matt Bailey | Source: Universal Pictures DVD
05 Mar 2005 9:00 PM | Submit Comment