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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Isle of the Dead / USA / 1945

This is so far my favourite of the “lesser” Val Lewtons. The Greek setting seems rather bizarre, the details of plague infection/non-infection quite unbelievable, and the sudden introduction of the woman-afraid-of-being-buried-alive-and-then-getting-buried-alive plot simply unbalanced. But the huis clos setting works very effectively, and the effects of shadow and light in some scenes are as great as in I Walked With A Zombie.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Warner DVD
23 Jan 2006 11:58 AM | Submit Comment


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