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.
March 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 60
- Adam (12)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (2)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (11)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (1)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (5)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 32
- Hands Across the Table (0)
- 300 (0)
- It’s All Gone Pete Tong (0)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (0)
- Zodiac (0)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (2)
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (0)
- The Wrong Guy (0)
- The Host (0)
- Stakeout (0)
- Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny (0)
- The Queen (1)
- Goodfellas (2)
- Pretty Woman (0)
- The Host (0)
- Zombi 3 (0)
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (0)
- The Brood (1)
- Idiocracy (0)
- Tideland (0)
- 300 (3)
- Zombie (0)
- Hands Across the Table (0)
- Away From Her (0)
- They All Laughed (1)
- Checking Out (0)
- Capote (0)
- My Favorite Wife (0)
- Bullitt (1)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (0)
- The Hidden (0)
- The Thing (0)
- The Host (1)
- Red Road (0)
- Notes On A Scandal (0)
- Inland Empire (7)
- I Confess (0)
- 300 (2)
- Fox & His Friends (0)
- Lamp (0)
- Boat (0)
- Industrial Soundscape (0)
- The Fly (0)
- The Prestige (2)
- A Perfect Candidate (0)
- A Texas Funeral (0)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (0)
- Moulin Rouge! (0)
- Starter for Ten (0)
- La Vie en Rose (1)
- Music and Lyrics (1)
- Into Great Silence (0)
- Kingdom Of Heaven (1)
- The Good Shepherd (0)
- Point Break (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (1)
- Hot Fuzz (4)
- Talladega Nights (0)
- Music And Lyrics (0)
- A History of Violence (1)
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My Favorite Wife / USA / 1940
While perhaps not quite as relentlessly awesome as The Awful Truth, this 1940 Cary Grant-Irene Dunne screwball comedy is nonetheless charming and funny as hell. The premise is totally incredible (Grant too spineless to fess up to bigamy? Maybe; Irene Dunne barefoot on a desert island? No chance), but it’s effortlessly pleasurable and deeper in its suggestions about love, marriage, trust, and fidelity than such a goofy movie has a right to be. But then, this is Stanley Cavell’s favorite kind of movie, so there’s bound to be plenty of pushing and pulling, crossing and double-crossing, and gentle power-plays before the married couple give in to one another. In many ways, it’s just Scenes from a Marriage, but nicer, several hours shorter, and without Grant kicking Dunne in the ribs.
And, if nothing else, the scene in which Grant uncomfortably admires his former “roommate” Randolph Scott’s form makes the whole thing worth it.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Warner Home Video DVD
14 Mar 2007 4:13 PM | Submit Comment