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
- Adam (12)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (18)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (2)
- Thomas (2)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 12
- The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman (0)
- Les Enfants Terribles (0)
- 3:10 To Yuma (0)
- The Kingdom (0)
- Orchestra Rehearsal (0)
- The Voice of the Moon (0)
- Ginger and Fred (0)
- No Country for Old Men (0)
- The Wicker Man (0)
- 28 Days Later (0)
- Braindead (0)
- Shaun of the Dead (0)
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects (0)
- Project Grizzly (0)
- The Host (0)
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend (0)
- Crazy Love (0)
- Freaks (0)
- Cat People (1)
- Toby Dammit (0)
- The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (0)
- A Marriage Agency (0)
- 4 (0)
- The Bridge (0)
- Severance (0)
- The Clowns (0)
- Amarcord (0)
- City of Women (0)
- Boys and Girls (0)
- Breaking and Entering (0)
- The Proposition (1)
- The Baron of Arizona (0)
- I Shot Jesse James (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- No Country for Old Men (1)
- Avida (7)
- Dragon Wars (1)
- The Boss of it All (0)
- L’Iceberg (0)
- Lust, Caution (0)
- Bonnie And Clyde (0)
- The Alps (1)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- Zoo (0)
- Lenny (0)
- Klute (0)
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Ginger and Fred / Ginger e Fred / Italy / France / W. Germany / 1986
In his early films Fellini showed a lot of affection for the tawdriness of second-rate theatre and circus acts, but he never transferred this affection to the equally second-rate television that he took on as a target in the eighties. Instead, television is made to be a rather obvious index of the crassness of modern life. In Ginger and Fred for the first time Fellini brings together in one film his wife Giulietta Masina and his alter ego Marcello Mastroianni. They play former Astaire and Rogers impersonators from the forties who are rescued from oblivion for one final dance performance in a horrendous Christmas variety show for TV. (The show’s host is played by Franco Fabrizi, the Lothario from I Vitelloni and Il Bidone.) Masina plays the role as a neat, genteel, little old lady, Mastroianni as a run-to-seed, semi-alcoholic has-been, and they’re both the still centre of a sometimes too busy film. This stillness is a literal one, for at the moment that they start their dance, the television studio suffers a power cut and they’re forced to sit on the stage in the darkness, quietly talking to one another. It’s a beautiful, even magical moment, and it’s one that makes for the success of an otherwise rather obvious film.
by Ian Johnston | Source: 35mm print
28 Oct 2007 1:39 PM | Submit Comment