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.
April 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 50
- Adam (6)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (6)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (7)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (8)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 20
- Grindhouse (0)
- Spider-Man 2.1 (0)
- The Shop Around the Corner (0)
- Chimes At Midnight (3)
- Heavy Weights (0)
- The Bothersome Man (3)
- Blood Diamond (0)
- Starter For Ten (0)
- Ace In The Hole (0)
- Flushed Away (0)
- Sunshine (2)
- Local Hero (0)
- Children Of Men (0)
- The Science of Sleep (0)
- La Kermesse Heroique (0)
- House By The River (0)
- Seraphim Falls (0)
- Eagle vs Shark (0)
- Manhattan (0)
- Year of the Dog (0)
- Kaw (0)
- Grindhouse (2)
- The Philadelphia Story (0)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- Purple Rain (2)
- Krapp’s Last Tape (0)
- Hot Fuzz (0)
- The Namesake (0)
- Dial M For Murder (0)
- Sunshine (4)
- Zodiac (1)
- Fast Food Nation (0)
- Labyrinth (0)
- The Second Circle (0)
- Cursed (0)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (0)
- The Awful Truth (0)
- Hot Fuzz (1)
- Children of Men (0)
- Stalker (0)
- Advise and Consent (1)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (0)
- Shoah (0)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (0)
- Piranha (0)
- The Namesake (0)
- Rushmore (1)
- Blades of Glory (0)
- Black (0)
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The Killing of a Chinese Bookie / USA / 1976
Synopses of this film will describe Ben Gazzara’s Cosmo as a nightclub owner, and this fact may instantly encourage certain prejudices that are not entirely sound. He deals in smut and his unfulfillable promises are inordinate, but he is sincere and, above all, deeply honorable.
The film becomes an increasingly tragic portrait; as he becomes manipulated by gangsters he shares none of his hardship with either his employees — his family — or his cherished clientele. The finale, in which Cosmo tends to a gunshot wound on the street outside of his club, alone, is among the most sympathetic of Cassavetes’ portraits.
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: The Criterion Collection DVD (1978 cut)
03 Apr 2007 12:52 PM | Submit Comment