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.

October 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 46

Total Comments: 12

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The Temptations of Doctor Antonio / Le Tentazioni del dottore Antonio / Italy / France / 1962

Fellini’s first film in colour, it’s his segment to Boccaccio ‘70, shared with De Sica, Visconti, and Mario Monicelli. It starts off promising enough with its opening shot that plays off a line of white-shirt and yellow-skirted schoolgirls against another line of red-cassocked priests, but then unfortunately the story itself begins, a crass and ploddingly obvious critique of puritanism (Dr Antonio, a caricature of a moral-standards crusader, is enraged and then literally driven made by a billboard of Anita Ekberg that highlights her giant breasts) that is extended way beyond its natural life to 54 increasingly tedious minutes.

by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
15 Oct 2007 1:22 PM | Submit Comment

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