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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La Fille de l’Eau / Whirlpool of Fate / France / 1925

Renoir’s version of vanity publishing, this film was a vehicle to promote the less than stellar talents of his wife Catherine Hessling. Basically, it’s a hoary old melodrama of an innocent young girl sexually menaced by an array of male nasties, including her own uncle. The expressionistic dream/nightmare sequence was quite striking in its day but seems rather derivative and a distraction from the strengths of the film – the lyrical depiction of the natural setting along a quintessentially Renoirian river. (One character even ends up floating, Boudu-like, down the river – but to very different effect.)

by Ian Johnston | Source: Lions Gate DVD
20 Jun 2007 2:11 PM | Submit Comment


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