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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Rope / USA/UK / 1948

Experimental masterwork or trite formal exercise? Paranoid propaganda for heteronormativity or deft navigation of homosociality and the perverse? Nietzsche or Freud?

Whatever your own answers, Rope is nonetheless a singularly disquieting film, taking many of the director’s familiar themes and maneuvers well beyond the comfort zone and straight into the audience’s conscience. More than in almost any of his other films, Hitchcock turns murder into a guilty pleasure, asking the viewer to root for the villains right up until Stewart’s last, moralistic (and rather unconvincing) monologue.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Universal DVD
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