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.

October 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 57

Total Comments: 43

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Don’t Look Now / UK / Italy / 1973

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Don’t Look Now is that rarest of beasts: a beautiful, deeply profound horror film. Though the horror genre has been hybridized with virtually every other type of film imaginable, it almost never comprises both the grotesque and the exquisite in a single film, and certainly not to the degree of Roeg’s film. Its success in this regard is no doubt attributable to the gothicism of DuMaurier’s material and to the aspic-preserved labyrinth of Venice. But it’s also thanks to Roeg and Tony Richmond’s rich, dark cinematography, with its warped, wide-angle lensing, its ghostly tracks, and its unsettling, exuberant moments of handheld camerawork; to Graeme Clifford’s intensely erratic montage, matching cuts, overlapping dialogue, and mashing-up image upon image; and two highly idiosyncratic, but affecting performances.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Paramount DVD
31 Oct 2006 1:41 PM | Comments (1)

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  1. Beverly / 31 October 2006 / 4:37 PM

    Thanks for your wonderful site. I, too, found it after watching GREY GARDENS.

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