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.
June 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 45
- Adam (9)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (7)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (7)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (0)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (3)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 14
- My Darling Clementine (0)
- Waitress (0)
- Venus (0)
- Under The Sun Of Satan (0)
- On The Waterfront (0)
- Pickpocket (2)
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (0)
- Ocean’s 13 (0)
- A Trip To Mars (0)
- The Candle And The Moth (0)
- Temptations Of A Great City (0)
- The Abyss (0)
- Brand Upon The Brain! (0)
- Six-String Saumurai (0)
- An Evening With Kevin Smith (1)
- The Bridge (0)
- The Hustler (0)
- Sherman’s March (0)
- Nana (0)
- La Fille de l’Eau (0)
- A Chorus Line (0)
- The Long, Hot Summer (0)
- God Said, ‘Ha!’ (0)
- Ocean’s 13 (1)
- Knocked Up (0)
- Marnie (0)
- Knocked Up (0)
- Kind Hearts And Coronets (0)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1)
- Casino Royale (2)
- The 40 Year Old Virgin (0)
- Vacancy (0)
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Brideshead Revisited (2)
- Odd Man Out (0)
- Andrei Rublev (0)
- Imitation of Life (0)
- Waitress (0)
- Knocked Up (3)
- His Girl Friday (2)
- Knocked Up (0)
- The Lookout (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (0)
- Dirty Harry (0)
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Kind Hearts And Coronets / UK / 1949
It’s been almost six decades, but this might still hold the crown as the blackest comedy ever made. There’s been some sick stuff these past few years, but it’s hard to imagine even the Farrelly brothers getting a comic beat out of two infants (and their mother) dying of diphtheria.
It’s also the most handsome of all the Ealing comedies, and the most politically cruel. Gone is the by-golly warmth of Passport To Pimlico, this is a story of greed, aspiration and bloody class warfare. No one is innocent, and the way we are manipulated into hating each new character- and even relishing their demise- is almost frightening. It also features one of the most beautifully written voiceovers in cinema, rich with gallows wit, sexual innuendo and even a sort of sarcastic pathos.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: Criterion DVD
11 Jun 2007 12:38 PM | Submit Comment