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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Frenzy / UK / 1972

Hitchcock’s penultimate film takes the director back to the Covent Garden fruit and veg market where his father was a greengrocer and back to the premise and preoccupations of The Lodger. A grim orgy of perversion and black humor, the film is a lurid, Technicolor kaleidoscope that synesthetically blends Bob Rusk’s lusty bites of fruit with his hungry assaults on women. There are great performances all around, with Anna Massey as an angular (if unlikely) Cockney barmaid, Barry Foster as the dandy murderer, and Jon Finch as the wrong man, as compellingly truculent here as he is in Polanski’s Macbeth.

It should also be noted that this, like A Fish Called Wanda, provides a rare cinematic defense of the merits of British cuisine.

Ian’s thoughts.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Universal Pictures DVD
24 Apr 2006 12:40 PM | Submit Comment

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