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.


April 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 73

Total Comments: 32


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Sex & Fury / Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô / Japan / 1973

Old Columbia TriStar VHS sleeves – discerned by red borders, and the film title in an all-caps serif on one side – contain the most cohesive plot descriptions on the back, which is to say, a film’s key plot points are often spoiled. I sort of admire this trait; the copy on an old Columbia TriStar sleeve is regularly more unembellished and less hyperbolic than that of a Criterion disc.

Which brings me to Sex & Fury, a film about sex and fury. And that’s about all you need to know if you’re moderately interested in watching it. I’ll add to this benchmark of succinctness a description of an early scene: the film centers on a renegade, orphaned, and often nude female nouveau samurai. She is interrupted by a gang in the middle of a bath, and proceeds to off them, with only a sword. If this doesn’t sufficiently describe this film’s signature exploitation, then know that this occurs outside, and in slow motion.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Panik House DVD
21 Apr 2006 10:22 AM | Submit Comment


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