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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Out of the Past / USA / 1947

With this and The Lusty Men, I’ve been trying to discern Robert Mitchum’s star persona. With his brick-shithouse build and pot-heavy eyelids, Mitchum seems to evoke the image of a big dope (or dopehead), but his well-concealed intelligence (frequently denied by him in his dialogue) is perceptible and is the quality that most elicits our sympathy. In Out of the Past, Mitchum’s History of Violence-like transition from honest gas-pumper to cold-blooded hood is represented by a change in clothing (rustic plaids to trenchcoat and fedora), but the watchful and laconic demeanour remains consistent.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Bros. DVD
15 Feb 2006 1:55 PM | Submit Comment


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