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.

November 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 86

Total Comments: 48

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Superman / USA / 1978

Following both Jaws and Star Wars, the original Superman is demonstrative of a transition in American cinema, from auteurist-driven masterworks of the early ’70s to the blockbuster era. By this measure, it’s somewhat of a depressing artifact, but it has aged exceptionally well—nearly thirty years after its theatrical release (and nearly thirty years’ worth of lesser blockbusters and lesser comic book adaptations), Superman almost seems to be more of an auteruist-driven masterwork than a blockbuster. If only Richard Donner’s career would support my thesis. And man, you can’t beat those title credits.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Cable TV
06 Nov 2006 11:31 AM | Comments (1)

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  1. tom / 7 November 2006 / 10:39 AM / URL

    I always loved the first thirty minutes of this film… the Days Of Heaven wheatfields, the high school awkwardness. But the tone shifts so radically once we get to Metropolis, and the high camp His Girl Fridayisms of the Daily Planet scenes just grate on me. Not to mention Gene Hackman’s hamtastic performance and the fact that the film almost totally lacks a plot. Interested in seeing Donner’s II, though.

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