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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Baby Doll / U.S.A. / 1956

The best Tennessee-Williams-on-film that I know of, and one of Kazan’s best films too. Its success lies in its modesty, a thankful lack of any attempt at a Kazanian statement (cf A Face In The Crowd), the perfection of the decrepit black-and-white Southern setting, the concentration on the three perfectly-cast central characters, and the perverse sexuality that the fillmakers were by all accounts not entirely aware of.

by Ian Johnston | Source: Warners DVD
16 Sep 2006 12:54 PM | Submit Comment


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