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

Total Comments: 37


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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof / U.S.A. / 1958

The critical consensus seems to be that Brooks’ later Williams adaptation Sweet Bird of Youth is a pale shadow of his success with Cat…, but I’m not sure if I don’t prefer Bird (not that it’s that successful…). Cat is Hollywood’s idea of a serious adaptation of a hit play, inevitably bowdlerised, but weighed-down too by its plodding obviousness, a lot of emotional fireworks with little depth, conviction, or emotional force.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Warners DVD
16 Sep 2006 12:45 PM | Submit Comment


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