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

Total Comments: 9


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The Lodger / A Story of the London Fog / UK / 1926

Alfred Hitchcock’s third film, his first thriller, his first “wrong man” film, and his first masterpiece. The film foreshadows so many elements of the director’s later work — blonde victims, domestic perversions, morbid slapstick — that one would imagine that it was made by a director far more settled in his ways. And while the dark shadow of German Expressionism looms large in every shot of the film, Hitchcock’s own material sensitivities to London’s working class give the film much of its enormous appeal. And if all this delicious, Hitchcockian fun with sex and death isn’t enough, there’s a nasty little hint of ambiguity in the ending.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Delta DVD
26 Sep 2005 11:29 PM | Submit Comment


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