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.
May 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 54
- Adam (7)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (2)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (9)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (4)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 16
- Iraq in Fragments (0)
- The Running Man (0)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (7)
- Possession (0)
- The Late Shift (0)
- The Long Goodbye (0)
- Landscape After Battle (0)
- A double tour (0)
- The Damned (1)
- Good Night, And Good Luck. (0)
- Powder (0)
- Three Times (0)
- The Da Vinci Code (1)
- Time Walker (0)
- Days of Heaven (0)
- The Dark Corner (0)
- Mission: Impossible III (0)
- They Live! (0)
- One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (0)
- High Fidelity (0)
- Tirez Sur La Pianiste (0)
- X- Men (0)
- Deconstructing Harry (0)
- In the Realms of the Unreal (0)
- Down in the Valley (0)
- Breaking the Waves (0)
- Hoosiers (1)
- Birth (0)
- The Curse of the Werewolf (0)
- Versus (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- The Best of Youth (0)
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- The Asphalt Jungle (0)
- The Maltese Falcon (0)
- Mission: Impossible III (0)
- Repulsion (0)
- Trouble Every Day (3)
- Bambi (0)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (0)
- The Village (0)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (0)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (1)
- Overnight (0)
- Dig! (1)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- The Outsiders (0)
- Mystery Men (1)
- Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (0)
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (0)
- The Empire in Africa (0)
- My Grandmother’s House (0)
- Psycho (0)
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Hoosiers / USA / 1986
Viewing this for the first time in about a decade reveals many contrivances that were not before apparent to me. Gene Hackman’s recalcitrant coach is a little too recalcitrant, and the insular community he pervades is a little too insular. (This is not to mention how completely predictable the film is.) Nonetheless, this remains a highly sentimental film to me, being familiar with the contagious fandom that overwhelms you for a small town basketball team.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: TCM
15 May 2006 9:45 AM | Comments (1)
Conor Dunphy / 16 May 2006 / 8:04 PM
I agree completely with your criticism of the writing of Hackman’s character. My high school basketball coach wore Skidz and sang urban dance songs at practice. Admittedly, the 1980s were not the 1960s and we cannot expect a period piece to break the lines of continuity that keep it so artfully delicate. But that flair that was so prominent in Hackman’s coaching and political ethics would have been matched nicely with some pant flairs and/or doo-wop-shop-a-loo-ah.