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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Blackmail / UK / 1929
An important early film for Hitchcock, marking the beginning of his career as a director of thrillers. The film was shot simultaneously as a silent and sound picture, and each version has its attributes.
For the sound version, Hitchcock employed Joan Barry to speak the lines in place of the heavily accented Anny Ondra who (bodily, and then some) plays Alice White. But lacking the technology for overdubbing, Ondra had to lipsynch the lines as Barry spoke them (in a ridiculous and inappropriately posh accent) off-camera. The results are, as you might guess, mixed, which is perhaps why I slightly prefer the silent version.
Incidentally, the Kinowelt DVD includes a nice extra: a sound test with Ondra and Hitchcock that becomes, thanks to the wily director, quite obscene.
For more on Hitchcock and sound, see Elisabeth Weis’ book The Silent Scream, which is available online in its entirety.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Kinowelt DVD
30 Dec 2005 3:12 PM | Submit Comment