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.

January 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 67

Total Comments: 30

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Master of the Flying Guillotine / Du Bei Quan Wang Da Po Xie Di Zi / One-Armed Boxer vs. The Flying Guillotine / Hong Kong / 1974

Jimmy Wang Yu pits his one-armed hero against Kam Kong, who here sports the titular weapon (part-yo yo, part-beekeeper headgear, part-decapitation instrument) and an enormous set of eyebrows. The purity of this film is inspiring: there is only the most economical of exposition, allowing the majority of the film’s 80 minutes to focus on increasingly lengthy action sequences. Here, Wang Yu excels, not only with the wit of his camera movement and editing, but with the almost abstract physicality of his actors (you try doing all that jumping with one arm tucked into your sweater).

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Cable Television Broadcast
07 Jan 2006 4:12 PM | Comments (1)

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  1. Soupcrusher / 7 January 2006 / 6:32 PM

    All I have to say is that if the title of this film isn’t enough to make you want to see it, then it’s probably not for you.

    But if you want to see a straight up fight-to-death tournament flick featuring a guy that tosses a lasso-like device over his opponents heads and decapitates them, this is a winner!

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