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

Total Comments: 14


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The Long, Hot Summer / USA / 1958

This William Faulkner story was transformed by writers Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr. (though Faulkner is given first billing) into a rather flat, dry, Southern melodrama. With such luminaries as Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward and Orson Welles as the despotic family head (and shoulders and stomach and spleen), one expects a hightened level of Mississippi-style histrionics. In Ritt’s hands, however, much of it comes across as desperate blustering by people attempting to force human connections. It’s not so much a hot summer as it is a drained one. And I bet you five bucks Ritt didn’t know Mississippi from Idaho.

by Marlin Tyree | Source: 20th Century Fox DVD
18 Jun 2007 5:35 PM | Submit Comment


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