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.
September 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 21
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (8)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (6)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 9
- The Trouble with Harry (1)
- The Lodger (0)
- Stray Bullet (0)
- Elizabethtown (0)
- Proof (0)
- Broken Flowers (0)
- Corpse Bride (0)
- 24 Hour Party People (0)
- The Pleasure Garden (0)
- Lethal Weapon (1)
- Unfaithfully Yours (0)
- Lenny (2)
- The Constant Gardener (0)
- They Died with Their Boots On (0)
- The Holy Girl (0)
- No Regrets for Our Youth (0)
- The Blackguard (0)
- The Triplets of Belleville (0)
- Spaceballs (0)
- Sid & Nancy (0)
- Mulholland Dr. (5)
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The Pleasure Garden / Irrgarten der Leidenschaft / UK/Germany / 1925
The Pleasure Garden is Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature film. (An earlier film, Number 13, probably no longer exists and is either described as unfinished or a short.) As such, it bears a remarkable number of indications of the director’s promise, including some sophisticated editing in the earlier part of the film, especially in its astonishing opening scene. The theme of doubling, so common in Hitchcock’s later work, is also fully, tantalizingly present here.
Unfortunately, the second half of the film is a succession of perfunctory melodrama conventions that result in the creation of a most unlikely romantic couple. And in “The Far East” of all places.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: VHS Dub of German Television Broadcast
14 Sep 2005 11:54 PM | Submit Comment