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.

January 2008 activity

Total Log Entries: 53

Total Comments: 41

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Vixen! / USA / 1968

This is a quintessential Russ Meyer film, even if it is much less subversive than Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and has nowhere near the magnitude of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. It’s only about 70 minutes long, and contains about eight characters, one of which is an Irish Communist. And it takes place in rural British Columbia. The eponymous Vixen is ostensibly a textbook Meyer woman – voluptuous and sexually insatiable – except that she’s an aggressive racist whose prejudices will become reassessed. So the film, in turn, is as much an agenda for the promotion of racial and socioeconomical equality as it is a skin flick. The final scene finds Vixen, her totally oblivious husband, the Irish Communist and the token black guy in a Cessna—this setup could result in any number of conclusions, each of which, I think, would be entirely sound.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: RM Films VHS
28 Jan 2008 1:10 PM | Submit Comment

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