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 Hustler / USA / 1961

This is one of the only instances I can cite in which a character’s vulnerability or vice becomes his most endearing quality. Late in the film, a tally of losses mounting against him, Eddie Felson falls to his knees and begs his bookie to lend him more money—it’s a man at his most desperate. And we want him to get the money – to further fund his vice – because we want to see him win.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: TCM
20 Jun 2007 4:24 PM | Submit Comment

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