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

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Husbands And Wives / USA / 1992

Forget the 70’s: the ‘90’s, from Crimes And Misdemeanors to Sweet and Lowdown, was Woody’s real purple patch. Sure, there are a few clunkers (Shadows And Fog, Celebrity) but just look at the high points: Bullets Over Broadway, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Deconstructing Harry and this, for my money one of his few genuine dramatic successes. The casting is perfect, the dialogue wise and not too dour, the parallels with real life fascinating and disconcerting in equal measure. His characters manage to be monstrous without losing our sympathy, although Woody does tend to let himself off the hook slightly when it comes to his own character, Gabe, resisting the teenage charms of Juliette Lewis but still ending up alone.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
16 Aug 2006 10:17 AM | Submit Comment

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