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.

December 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 74

Total Comments: 65

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Hard Eight / Sydney / USA / 1996

Long before Paul Thomas Anderson was known for interconnected storylines, Philip Baker Hall was known as Mr. Bookman, and Gwenyth Paltrow was a stuck-up Oscar-winner, there was Hard Eight, a tale of love, money, and death in Reno. And while some of the acting is a bit unrefined—John C. Reilly, for one, is surprisingly terrible—Hard Eight works unbelievably well for having been released only two years after Pulp Fiction.

Besides, even if Anderson hadn’t rescued his film from the hands of studio executives, it still has Philip Baker Hall, who makes any film tolerable.

by Adam Balz | Source: Sony DVD
02 Dec 2006 2:45 PM | Comments (2)

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  1. leo / 2 December 2006 / 1:47 PM / URL

    Though Anderson has disowned it, I like this film well enough. And I’d watch it daily if it meant never having to see Magnolia ever again. Fortunately, the likelihood of my being subjected to either punishment is slim.

    And I’ll always be fond of the line, “You humble yourself,” delivered with such petty moralism by Mr. Hall.

  2. Adam B. / 2 December 2006 / 2:02 PM / URL

    “You know the first thing they should’ve taught you at hooker school? You get the money up front!”

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