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Ayako Wakao – The True Mistress of Nipponese Cinema
by Allan Fish Not too long ago, I recall Sam sending me a link to an upcoming series at Manhattan’s Film Forum about the great Japanese actresses. Various works would be highlighted accommodating the...
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Evolving Positions: Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson’s “God Loves, Man...
By Bob Clark This past week has seen a fair number of developments on the American fronts concerning civil rights and prejudice in national politics, all revolving around the discussion of broadening...
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1938 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish Again, results first… Best Picture Bringing up Baby, US (5 votes) Best Director Sergei M.Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky & Alfred Hitchcock, The Lady Vanishes (6 votes each, TIE) Best...
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I Wish, Dark Shadows, Bernie and Link Decision on Monday Morning Diary (May 14)
by Sam Juliano With spring weather upon us in full flower, outdoor activity has allowed many to do things that have long been sitting on the back burner. Hope all those Moms out there had the best...
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Lost and Not Found – the missing masterpieces of the seventh art
by Allan Fish This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Farran Smith Nehme...
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30 Greatest Sporting Moments – Mr Fish’s choices
by Allan Fish A bit of a blast from left field, this is what I hope will be the first in a series of pieces on WitD contributors greatest sporting moments from their lifetime. I say from their...
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Finding Ford / The Searchers (1956)
By Peter Lenihan Finding Ford is a biweekly series on the films of John Ford. Apologies for the EXTREME tardiness of this week’s post—as some of you may or may not know, I live and work at a small...
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Brigham Young University Film Music Archives: A Beacon for preservation
by Sam Juliano This post is a contribution to the third annual For the Love of Film blogathon and fundraiser, which will be running from May 13-18. This year, hosts Marilyn Ferdinand, Farran Smith...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Moving into our second week of English Progressive rock (‘Prog Rock’ as it’s generally known) what that genre is and how I see it, or perhaps more importantly, how the English have interpreted...
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Histoire(s) du Cinema – 1988-1998, Jean-Luc Godard
by Allan Fish (France 1988-1998 276m) DVD1/2 Aka. Tales of the Cinema A margin of indefiniteness d/w Jean-Luc Godard ph Pierre Binggeli, Herve Duhamel m Belá Bártok, Bernard Herrmann, Dimitri...
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No Boy is an Island: Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” on Page and...
By Bob Clark Among the chief architects of my early imagination as far as pop-cultural influences go, there are artists of many disciplines, as befitting a childhood spent in the burgeoning multi-media...
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1939 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish Straight into it as always… Best Picture La Règle du Jeu, France (9 votes) Best Director Jean Renoir, La Règle du Jeu (11 votes) Best Short The Ugly Duckling, Bill Roberts, Jack Cutting,...
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Stage Play ‘Storefront Church’, The Dictator, Grand Illusion and The 39 Steps...
by Sam Juliano Air conditioners are now in regular use as Northern Hemisphere inhabitants are officially planning for the fast-approach summer. Heck, even I just submitted my ‘summer 2012′ intent form...
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“You share no interests with others: Robert Bresson’s ‘Pickpocket’
© 2012 by James Clark For a long while now, we’ve been sifting through quite recent films affording the spectacle of rather unusual figures coming to grips with turning a tide threatening to reduce...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie While last week I had the difficult personal task of writing about bands I had previously been just lukewarm to (at best) or openly disliked, at least they were two bands that I’d heard...
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99. Spaced 1999-2001
by Allan Fish (UK 1999/2001 350m) DVD1/2 Skip to the end p Nira Park, Gareth Edwards d Edgar Wright w Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson ph Andy Hollis ed Chris Dickens (and others) Simon Pegg (Tim...
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The Baby Boom Fuse: Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” on Page and Screen
By Bob Clark Though it’s been more and more infrequent in the past fifteen years or more, there used to be a fairly common occurrence of half-hour animated specials produced from American comic-strips,...
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2 Million Page Views reached here at Wonders in the Dark!
Wonders in the Dark has reached it’s second monumental milestone in the past months that warrants announcing on these pages. In fact this newest achievement trumps the past one, which was an...
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1940 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish OK, straight into the results… Best Picture The Grapes of Wrath, US (9 votes) Best Director John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath (11 votes) Best Short A-Plumbing We Will Go, US, Del Lord (8...
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98. Up Pompeii 1969-1970
by Allan Fish (UK 1969-1970 452m) DVD2 What did you expect, wit? p David Croft, Sydney Lotterby d David Croft w Talbot Rothwell, Sid Colin Frankie Howerd (Lurcio), Elizabeth Larner (Ammonia),...
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