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.

March 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 87

Total Comments: 44

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The Lavender Hill Mob / U.K. / 1951

Another magical Ealing comedy, and perhaps the cuddliest heist movie of all time. There are sly satirical jabs- at the bumbling London police force, most prominently- and a fair amount of genuine suspense, but overall the mood is one of giddy, warm- hearted slapstick, leavened by an almost tangible, wistful longing for the good life. Like Passport To Pimlico, the film takes place amid the lingering rubble and desolation of postwar London, and like that film the characters here yearn to set themselves above the crowd, but naturally find this dream impossible- in Ealing we’re all equal, and that’s the point.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
09 Mar 2006 5:13 AM | Submit Comment

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