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.


August 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 61

Total Comments: 60


Full Archive


Advertisements



Louisiana Story / USA / 1948

One can hardly say it better than Matt Bailey: “Louisiana Story is, strangely enough, Flaherty’s most beautiful work and yet his most awful.”

The shimmering bayou images, shot by a young Ricky Leacock and scored with some epic Americana by Virgil Thomson, are enough to recommend this film very highly, but the ludicrous dialogue scenes and the film’s more than dubious status as a PSA for Standard Oil make the film a chore to watch. Still, with your scan button at the ready, this is among the most beautiful films ever made. And it would make a hell of a double feature with Bambi.

Full Review.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Home Video Entertainment DVD
02 Aug 2006 4:21 PM | Submit Comment


Submit Comment

Please note that your email address will never be displayed on this page.

HTML is enabled; line breaks (<br />) and paragraphs (<p>) are automatically converted. Apostrophes, ellipses, em- and en-dashes, and quotes are also automatically formatted.