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

Total Comments: 20

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Ace In The Hole / USA / 1951

Wilder’s startlingly nihilistic vision could have done for him what Peeping Tom did for Powell- a beloved filmmaker alienating his audiences with a bleak, vicious look at human selfishness run amok, and a veiled attack on his own chosen profession. Kirk Douglas seems, at first, winningly amoral in the central role, until greed and desperation get the better of him and he takes a turn for the even darker. As a portrait of our ongoing fascination with tragedy and the media’s willingness to exploit it, Ace In The Hole has yet to be bettered.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
29 Apr 2007 2:58 PM | Submit Comment

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