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
- Adam (3)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (10)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (12)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 35
- Curse of the Cat People (0)
- Munich (0)
- Elephant (0)
- Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (0)
- The Wicker Man (1)
- New York Doll (0)
- Winter Passing (3)
- The New World (4)
- Date Movie (2)
- The Lost World (0)
- Transamerica (0)
- Paths Of Glory (0)
- Dark City (0)
- What Time is it There? (0)
- Crime Wave (2)
- Syriana (0)
- Batman Begins (6)
- How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (0)
- Four Brothers (0)
- Munich (0)
- Little Fish (0)
- The Ballad of Cable Hogue (0)
- Out of the Past (0)
- Wind Across the Everglades (6)
- Rebel Without a Cause (0)
- The Lusty Men (0)
- Ghostbusters (0)
- Manderlay (0)
- The Rite (1)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- Mutiny on the Bounty (0)
- Breaking Away (1)
- Hero (0)
- Day For Night (0)
- Secret Defense (0)
- Over The Edge (0)
- Darkman (2)
- Ryan (0)
- Rubber Johnny (0)
- The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (0)
- Little Otik (0)
- Elizabethtown (0)
- Peeping Tom (1)
- Hellboy (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Monterey Pop (0)
- Badlands (6)
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Crime Wave / The City Is Dark / USA / 1954
A fairly straightforward noirish police procedural, enlivened by pacy, stylish direction from Andre De Toth and a solid central cast. There’s nothing remotely original here- a gang of escaped cons fleeing a bungled gas station robbery hole up with an old prison buddy trying to go straight, while Sterling Hayden’s tough- nut Detective Lieutenant trawls the bars for clues- but it’s evocatively photographed, and populated with a string of amusingly grotesque minor characters, most notably a very young Charles Bronson, suitably menacing as a mindless teen thug. And Hayden is as dependable as ever- the closing moments of the film, where his seemingly intractable, hard- headed cop reveals his hidden sentimental side, is surprising and memorable.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
17 Feb 2006 9:49 AM | Comments (2)
Rumsey / 17 February 2006 / 7:00 AM / URL
I just raised my hands for a 2x high-five, and then I realized this is not the Sam Raimi-helmed, Coen brothers-penned B-grade Bruce Campbell vehicle Crimewave (one word). Alas, what you saw was indisputably the better film, but no, it warrants no high-five.
Tom / 17 February 2006 / 7:07 AM / URL
To be honest, Sterling Hayden’s as solid as oak, but Campbell pretty much beats ‘em all in my eyes. It’s a long time since I saw it, but a scene where rentafat-evil-guy Paul Smith smashes through a load of doors does stick in my mind… genius.