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.


February 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 47

Total Comments: 35


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Rebel Without a Cause / USA / 1955

James Dean’s iconicity is a given (see also Badlands), but he was also a fine actor who, at 24 years, turned in what is still among the most credible performances of a troubled high-schooler in cinema. The result is a landmark in American film and in Hollywood melodrama, a film that, no matter how dated the patois becomes, is still a moving and perceptive portrait of suburban angst, teenage sexual and social mores, and the American family.

And from the Idle Gossip Department: Apparently, both Dennis Hopper and the 40-odd Nick Ray were sleeping with Natalie Wood (who was about 17 at the time) during filming, which is why Hopper has such a paltry role in the film. “I ride with the kids,” indeed.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Bros. DVD
15 Feb 2006 1:38 PM | Submit Comment


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