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Crimes at the Dark House – 1940, George King
(UK 1940 68m) DVD2 A carrion crow sat on a tree… p George King, Odette King d George King w Edward Dryhurst, Frederick Hayward, H.F.Maltby novel “The Woman in White” by Wilkie Collins ph...
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CD Opera Mini-Review: Philador’s ‘Sancho Panca’
by Sam Juliano The appearance of eighteenth-century opera on CD is a blessing for both fans of opera comique and those looking to broaden the horizons of a form that takes risks far too infrequently....
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“I only know I’ve changed”: Louis Bunuel’s ‘Viridiana’
Copyright © 2011 by James Clark For quite a while, I’ve been jockeying into position one of my favorite films, Woman in the Dunes (1964), whose guiding light (along with novelist and...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie …There’s something else I wanted to say about Cezanne: that no one before him ever demonstrated so clearly the extent to which painting is something that takes place among the colors, and how...
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The Bowery – 1933, Raoul Walsh
by Allan Fish (USA 1933 92m) not on DVD When it’s on the strict QT p Darryl F.Zanuck, Raymond Griffith, William Goetz d Raoul Walsh w Howard Estabrook, James Gleason novel Michael L.Simmons,...
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Truth, Justice and the American Way: “A History of Violence” on Page and Screen
By Bob Clark One of the great strengths of the comics medium that I’ve belabored upon is how any given panel on a page can stand on its own as a frozen moment in time, building sequences of linear...
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Bambi (1942, prod. Walt Disney) • (Fixing a Hole: Animated Animals Month)
by Joel Bocko “Fixing a Hole” is a series whose purpose is to review films that have not yet been covered on Wonders in the Dark. The theme for November is “Animated Animals.” • The Story: One spring,...
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Hugo, The Artist, A Dangerous Method, My Week with Marilyn, House of...
by Sam Juliano America’s turkey population was greatly diminished in the past week, but alas, life goes on, and next it’s the evergreens that will take a hit as the holiday season is officially...
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Intermezzo – 1936, Gustaf Molander
by Allan Fish (Sweden 1936 88m) DVD1 Seeing the flag… d Gustav Molander w Gustav Molander, Gösta Stevens ph Äke Dahlquist ed Oscar Rosander m Heinz Provost, Robert Henning Gösta Ekman (Holger...
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Farewell to Unkle Ken – Ken Russell (1927-2011)
by Allan Fish When I heard of Ken Russell’s death first thing this morning after going onto the IMDb and BBC websites, one felt a sense of shock. And shock at a death can come in so many different...
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The Strange World of Gurney Slade – TV 1960
by Allan Fish (UK 1960 150m) DVD2 Follow…proceed… p/d Alan Tarrant w Sid Green, Dick Hills m Max Harris Anthony Newley (Gurney Slade), Una Stubbs, Bernie Winters, Douglas Wilmer, Charles Lloyd...
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How I’ll Remember Shingo Araki (1939 – 2011)
by Jaime Grijalba. The last wednesday, when everybody was still mourning the loss of Ken Russell, british director of the violent and sacrilegous masterpiece that is ‘The Devils’, a news piece from...
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The Silents: Entr’acte, Emak Bakia, Ghosts Before Breakfast • (Fixing a Hole:...
by Maurizio Roca “Fixing a Hole” is a series whose purpose is to review films that have not yet been covered on Wonders in the Dark. December will be “Avant-Garde Month.” Each week, three related films...
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Handel’s ‘Rodelinda’, My Lord Chamberlain’s Consort, Stage Play ‘Angel...
by Sam Juliano Christmas shoppers and home lighters have begun their annual rituals aided by unseasonably moderate weather. Meanwhile film critics’ awards groups have begun giving out prizes, with...
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The Killer, the Filmmaker, and Their Modus Operandi: A Conversation with...
Conducted by Joel Bocko What does a serial killer do when he’s not killing? In M.O., first-time feature director Mitch Rouse hopes to answer that question, taking a neorealist/documentary approach to...
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Awaara – 1951, Raj Kapoor
by Allan Fish (India 1951 167m) DVD2 Aka. Awara; The Bandit It’s just the way I look p Raj Kapoor d Raj Kapoor w Khwaja Ahmad Abass story Khwaja Ahmad Abass, V.P.Sathe ph Radhu Karmaka ed...
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Ways of the “Get”: The Coens’ “A Serious Man”
Copyright © 2011 by James Clark There is a motif, in the Coens’ A Serious Man (2009), which greatly helps clear the way toward engaging the sensualist factors of Teshigahara’s enigmatic and...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie I’ve discussed the past two weeks acts as Shoegazer, and while that is certainly an apt way to describe both bands, and correct ways to genre classify them, they both could also be classified...
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Sholay – 1975, Ramesh Sippy
by Allan Fish (India 1975 210m) DVD2 Aka. Flames The art of crushing a snake p G.P.Sippy d Ramesh Sippy w Salim Khan, Javed Akhtar ph Dwarka Divecha ed M.S.Shinde m Rahul Dev Burman ly...
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Machine Gun Lullaby: “Road to Perdition” on Page and Screen
By Bob Clark The term is film noir, but it could just as easily be comics noir, couldn’t it? Really, you’d have to go all out and use the French term bande dessinee, but that wouldn’t really be a good...
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