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.
November 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 41
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (8)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (8)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (15)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 15
- Untitled 3b (0)
- Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (0)
- Made In Britain (0)
- Chungking Express (0)
- Changing Times (0)
- War of the Worlds (14)
- The Wages of Fear (0)
- Le Samouraï (0)
- The Tales of Hoffmann (0)
- Bring It On (0)
- War of the Worlds (0)
- The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (0)
- Battle in Heaven (0)
- Everlasting Regret (0)
- The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (0)
- The Thin Blue Line (0)
- The Devil’s Rejects (0)
- House of 1000 Corpses (0)
- Grizzly Man (0)
- Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (0)
- An Angel at My Table (0)
- Eyes Without a Face (0)
- Se7en (0)
- Pride & Prejudice (0)
- Dude, Where’s My Car? (0)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (0)
- Pickpocket (0)
- masculin féminin (0)
- The Manxman (0)
- Land of the Dead (0)
- Oldboy (0)
- Bully (0)
- Signs (1)
- Jarhead (0)
- Perfumed Nightmare (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- Champagne (0)
- Return of the Dragon (0)
- Spring in a Small Town (0)
- Hong Kong Nocturne (0)
- Reassemblage (0)
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Hong Kong Nocturne / Xiang jiang hua yue ye / Hong Kong / 1966
An incredibly vibrant and bizarre contemporary musical starring Cheng Pei-pei (of Come Drink With Me and [much later] Crouching Tiger) as one of three singing sisters who leave their swindling father’s cabaret act for variously disappointing fortunes (pornography, a sadomasochistic relationship, and a tragic romance). One of seventeen films that Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu made for Shaw Brothers in six years, Hong Kong Nocturne is so breezy and beautifully photographed that one almost overlooks its dour appraisal of the possibilities for young Hong Kong women in the mid-1960s. Presumably, this is the type of film that Zhang Ziyi’s character in 2046 would have swooned over.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Celestial Pictures / Shaw Bros. DVD
01 Nov 2005 10:06 PM | Submit Comment