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)
Full Archive
Advertisements
Death Race 2000 / USA / 1977
Now, this is more like it. An all time trash masterpiece, frighteningly more relevant than ever in it’s political satire: totalitarian religious nutcase president seeks the ‘fertile fields of minority privilege’, blames everything bad on ‘the scheming and treacherous French’. The script is unbelievably tight and surprisingly witty, Tak Fujimoto’s sparkling low level photography is memorable and distinctive, and ludicrous art- subversive Paul Bartel squeezes every penny out of the miniscule budget, casting his partner in crime Mary Woronov as psycho cowgirl Calamity Jane (‘whoever named your car the bull was only half right’). Not to mention David Carradine’s growling, masked Frankenstein (‘with half a face and half a chest and all the guts in the world, he’s back!’) and Sly Stallone screaming off the blocks as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo (‘some people might think you’re cute, but to me you’re just one very large baked potato’). But the real treat is The Real Don Steele as ‘your buddy- buddy and mine’ Junior Bruce, the deranged, bloodthirsty sports commentator and government stooge: ‘Alright alright and yes, sirree! A neat kill! A clean kill! And no pain for the target!’ The long rumoured remake by tedious action- bore Paul W.S. Anderson (under the title ‘Death Race 3000’) would be better left on the shelf. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the version we have.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
27 Sep 2006 10:24 AM | Submit Comment