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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Get Carter / UK / 1971

“You bloody whore!”

True grit doesn’t get much grittier than this, nor does Michael Caine’s hair get any wilder, nor his nostrils any wider, nor his teeth any larger. A thoroughly reprehensible and massively entertaining tale of revenge taken to its most unpleasant lengths, with more Cockney swagger and miserable Tyneside cityscapes than one can shake a shotgun at.

Factoid: Kinnear, the swish, hirsute gangster, is played by none other than Look Back in Anger playwright, John Osborne.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: MGM DVD
27 Sep 2006 5:17 PM | Comments (2)

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  1. Paul Herzberg / 28 September 2006 / 5:23 AM / URL

    One of the many things I like about Get Carter, and something you touch upon, is that Newcastle is almost a lead character in the movie and, despite looking like quite a horrible place to live — endless terraced housing, ugly, new but unfinished concrete development etc. —, it is shot in an oddly loving way. A pity, though, that hardly anyone in it talks like a geordie.

  2. Jenny / 28 September 2006 / 11:33 AM / URL

    I especially enjoy this snarky comment: I’m going to sit in the car and whistle “Rule Britannia”.

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