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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The Importance of Being Earnest / UK / 1952

Asquith’s success with this adaptation is in not trying to open out Wilde’s play, in understanding the irony and knowing artificiality of the whole enterprise and letting the actors play on that in their very self-aware way. In its own way, the film hardly puts a step wrong (one exception: the cutaway reaction shots to the butler during Gwendolin and Cicely’s “duel” in the garden – very bad!).

by Ian Johnston | Source: Criterion DVD
23 Jan 2006 11:52 AM | Submit Comment


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