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
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (8)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (15)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 10
- The New World (0)
- Blackmail (0)
- King Kong (0)
- The Squid and the Whale (0)
- Italian For Beginners (0)
- La Chinoise (0)
- Cabin Fever (0)
- Match Point (2)
- Munich (2)
- The Family Stone (0)
- The Manchurian Candidate (0)
- Marnie (0)
- The World (0)
- Citizen Kane (0)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (0)
- Rope (1)
- Drums Along The Mohawk (0)
- L’Intrus (0)
- The Beat That My Heart Skipped (0)
- Mulholland Dr. (2)
- The Family Stone (0)
- Walk the Line (0)
- Birth (0)
- Vincent and Theo (0)
- The Ghost Ship (0)
- Last Days (0)
- Mysterious Skin (0)
- In the Mood for Love (0)
- 2046 (0)
- The Lady Vanishes (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- L’Enfant (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Van Gogh (0)
- Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (0)
- Grizzly Man (0)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- The Body Snatcher (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (3)
- King Kong (0)
- Match Point (0)
- The Brothers Grimm (0)
- The Fury (0)
- Vertigo (0)
- Broken Flowers (0)
- Primer (0)
- Syriana (0)
- Look At Me (0)
- The Philadelphia Story (0)
- Sin City (0)
- Afrique, je te plumerai (0)
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The Ghost Ship / USA / 1943
I’m seeing many of these Val Lewton horror films for the first time and frankly those not directed by Jacques Tourneur simply don’t measure up. The Ghost Ship for the most part is slow-paced, talky, and lacking in the requisite atmosphere. Director Mark Robson can’t seem to make a virtue out of his low-budget sets – the camera set-ups often seem wrong, revealing rather than the hiding the empty and underpopulated sets. We need more shadows! Still, the climatic knife fight between the crazed captain and the mute sailor over the hero’s trussed-up body must have seemed pretty lurid in its day.
by Ian Johnston | Source: WB DVD
19 Dec 2005 2:53 PM | Submit Comment