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.

December 2005 activity

Total Log Entries: 53

Total Comments: 10

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Frenzy / UK / 1972

Did Hitchcock realise how much Bob Rusk becomes a self-portrait? The serial killer’s simultaneous fascination with and distaste for his women victims is mirrored in the way Hitchcock chooses to shoot those scenes. There’s a leering quality to the shots of the distorted faces of the strangled women, an unsettling pleasure. Despite the technical flourishes this is minor Hitchcock, a reminder that the constraints of Hollywood censorship may have been a blessing for his art. And we can be thankful that this was not his last film, but that the light-spirited jeu d’esprit of Family Plot was his final gift to cinema.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Universal DVD
15 Dec 2005 12:01 PM | Submit Comment

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