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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Brighton Rock / Young Scarface / UK / 1947

Classic British noir, with Sir Dickie Attenborough truly unsettling as dead- eyed psychopath Pinkie, marrying a potential witness to one of his crimes in order to keep her quiet. The atmosphere of the English seaside permeates every frame, there’s an air of cheap thrills and petty desperation, empty lives blowing away with the chip wrappers. And it’s subtly subversive- the police are useless so the legwork falls to brassy, middle aged vaudevillian Ida (Hermione Baddeley), surely one of the strangest detectives in film history.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
21 Mar 2006 8:23 AM | Submit Comment


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