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.
January 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 84
- Adam (16)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (8)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (5)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (19)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 32
- El Topo (0)
- A Hole in My Heart (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- The Decalogue (I) (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- Eraserhead (0)
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (0)
- Deja Vu (0)
- Mildred Pierce (0)
- Babel (1)
- 3 Godfathers (0)
- Children of Men (0)
- Mikey & Nicky (0)
- One Eyed Jacks (0)
- Nashville (0)
- Hearts of Darkness (0)
- Apocalypse Now (0)
- In the Bedroom (0)
- Babel (0)
- Harold And Maude (0)
- Superman II (0)
- Flags Of Our Fathers (0)
- Predator 2 (1)
- Leave Her To Heaven (0)
- Lola (0)
- Still Life (0)
- His Kind Of Woman! (0)
- Stand By Me (1)
- Only You (0)
- The Descent (0)
- Office Space (0)
- Northfork (0)
- The Good German (0)
- Dreamgirls (5)
- Curse of the Golden Flower (0)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (1)
- Little Children (0)
- The Great New Wonderful (0)
- Twelve and Holding (0)
- Good Morning (0)
- A Dirty Shame (0)
- Another Gay Movie (1)
- Scoop (0)
- Apocalypto (0)
- Idiocracy (0)
- Shampoo (0)
- Seabiscuit (0)
- City Slickers (0)
- While You Were Sleeping (0)
- Night At The Museum (0)
- The Black Dahlia (0)
- Borat (0)
- An-Magritt (0)
- 2046 (7)
- Shoeshine (0)
- Blood Simple (0)
- Through a Glass Darkly (0)
- The Painted Veil (0)
- Henry V (4)
- Love Object (0)
- PlayTime (0)
- Take the Money and Run (0)
- Climates (0)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (1)
- Children of Men (6)
- Cries and Whispers (0)
- Miami Vice (0)
- Notes on a Scandal (0)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (0)
- Volver (0)
- Night Watch (0)
- The Long Goodbye (0)
- Thank You For Smoking (0)
- Look Both Ways (0)
- Children of Men (3)
- The Bat (0)
- Shadowboxer (0)
- Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (0)
- The Bishop’s Wife (0)
- Children of Men (1)
- Delicatessen (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- Infernal Affairs (0)
- Dial M for Murder (0)
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His Kind Of Woman! / USA / 1951
Howard Hughes didn’t actually direct this enjoyable film noir romp starring Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell though, as producer, his touch is obvious. The director credit goes to Richard Fleischer, who was brought in to re-shoot the entire film after John Farrow gave it a go. There are many flat patches in this moody caper; stock scenes that introduce us to the players who set the ball rolling, but there is love intrigue and flat out farce as well, particularly from a scene stealing Vincent Price. Mitchum plays a gambler set up to be murdered and subsequently replaced by a gangster, played by a sullen Raymond Burr, who needs a new identity. On the way he bumps into bombshell moocher, Russell, who happens to traveling his way but in hot pursuit of the millionaire movie star, Price.
Yep, the shenanigans abound. But Russell can actually sing, Price is hilarious as the thespian sharpshooter and Mitchum is as confidently cool and suave as ever. Although the film is filled with sharp dialogue, deliberate stylized photography (what’s noir without shadows on ceilings?!!) and nice ensemble play, (as Russell quips after watching Price ham it up in a film within the film) “it’s an hour and a half too long.”
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Turner Entertainment DVD
18 Jan 2007 7:09 PM | Submit Comment