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.
September 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 51
- Adam (3)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (10)
- Jenny (3)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (10)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 37
- Melinda and Melinda (0)
- Caravaggio (2)
- Get Carter (2)
- Beijing Bicycle (2)
- A Scanner Darkly (3)
- When A Woman Ascends The Stairs (0)
- The Black Dahlia (0)
- Lacombe, Lucien (0)
- Death Race 2000 (0)
- I Vitelloni (15)
- Pacific Heights (0)
- Brick (0)
- The Science of Sleep (0)
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston (0)
- Mr. Arkadin (0)
- Sisters of the Gion (0)
- The Night of the Hunter (0)
- Phantasm (0)
- Special (1)
- Midnight Run (1)
- Noi Albinoi (1)
- Two for the Road (0)
- Great Railway Journeys of the World: Confessions of a Train Spotter (0)
- Land Of The Dead (0)
- Cabaret (0)
- The History Boys (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- Road House (0)
- When the Levees Broke (1)
- Marnie (6)
- Baby Doll (0)
- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (0)
- Playtime (0)
- The Girl Can’t Help It (2)
- Ali (0)
- Boogie Nights (0)
- Brazil (1)
- Bad Timing (0)
- The Disorderly Orderly (0)
- Seven Samurai (0)
- Cracked Actor (0)
- Letter From An Unknown Woman (0)
- Scanners 2: The New Order (0)
- Kicking and Screaming (0)
- The Rapture (0)
- Inside Man (0)
- Dracula: Dead and Loving It (0)
- She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (0)
- Fort Apache (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- The Illusionist (0)
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Letter From An Unknown Woman / USA / 1948
A welcome reissue for Ophuls’ last two Hollywood films on DVD- Restless Moment is a slight but intriguing domestic thriller in the Mildred Pierce tradition, with Joan Bennett struggling to protect her innocent suburban family against the machinations of vulnerable Irish gangster James Mason.
Letter From An Unknown Woman is an altogether meatier prospect, perhaps the finest unrequited love story ever filmed, a genuine heartbreaker. Joan Fontaine dedicates her life to the silent pursuit of gadabout pianist Louis Jourdan, each of them locked in a netherworld of selfish obsession, unable to break free. Ophuls manipulates the emotions without ever straying into schmaltz, holding his characters at one remove even in the depths of their self- imposed emotional tragedy. And it’s visual stunning, the camera gliding and swooning through the streets and cafes of 19th century Vienna.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
08 Sep 2006 5:53 AM | Submit Comment