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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Beckett On Film / Ireland/UK / 2002

Michael Colgan (artistic director of the Gate Theater, Dublin) assembled 19 different directors to film all of Samuel Beckett’s 19 plays. A formidable task which pays off handsomely with some and not so well with others. Among my faves are ‘Rough For Theater I’ and ‘Waiting For Godot’,

by Marlin Tyree | Source: Ambrose Video DVD
15 Nov 2006 5:43 PM | Comments (1)


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  1. Adam B. / 15 November 2006 / 3:19 PM / URL

    I’ve always been curious about this collection, especially David Mamet’s “Catastrophe,” starring nonagenarian John Gielgud and future Nobel-winner Harold Pinter. (Rebecca Pidgeon is the Director’s Assistant…hmm, I wonder how she got that job.) I’ve read a few articles that chastise Mamet’s staging. So my question is, any good?

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