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.

July 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 71

Total Comments: 23

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Popeye / USA / 1980

This routinely maligned Robert Altman film (that, for it follows his decade of critical prominence in which even his obscurer efforts pale his later works) is also among my favorites of his, but not for how it exudes his trademarks. It occurs in some sort of utopian theme park in the Mediterranean (which still exists), and the accuracy with which Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall channel Popeye and Olive Oyl is uncanny. And the songs are so weird—think of Duvall singing of how Bluto is large.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Cable TV
07 Jul 2006 11:12 AM | Comments (2)

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  1. mark / 11 July 2006 / 8:16 PM

    Did they ever DVD this thing? Love to own a copy.

  2. Nathan / 18 August 2006 / 6:52 PM

    I visited Malta earlier this year (where the film was shot and where the “theme park” it became still exists). The guidebook I brought with me says it’s the biggest tourist trap on the island, that the place is falling to pieces. I didn’t bother to visit.

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