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Allan Fish OFF 2018 – Day 1, The Icicle Thief (1989)
The Allan Fish Online Film Festival was conjured up as a way to remember the passion of Allan’s fervent cinephilia, and the online tie that bound so much of us to him like flies to a glowing...
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The Guardians and Summer 1993 on Tuesday Morning Diary (May 29)
Screen capture from French gem “The Guardians.” by Sam Juliano The second annual Allan Fish Online Festival is underway as of this morning with a fabulous post from project founder Jamie Uhler on a...
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Allan Fish OFF 2018 – Day 2: The Sheik (1921) / The Son of the Sheik (1926)
By Roderick Heath This essay is offered as part of the Allan Fish Online Film Festival, a festival founded by Jamie Uhler and hosted by Wonders in the Dark, held to honor the memory of the late...
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Allan Fish OLFF 2018 Day 3: Pornography (2012)
by John Grant charmingly innocent (well, sort of) romp, all done to the music of the Tango! | US / 16´ 24´´ / bw / Tango Silent Films Dir & Pr & Scr: Joe Leonardo Cine: Mauricio Carvajal...
View ArticleAllan Fish OFF 2018 Day 4: Dance of the Seven Veils and Culloden
by Adam Ferenz The British Broadcasting System, or BBC, is known for many things. Low budgets. Reuse of sets and costumes. Accusations of bias from whomever is in or out of power. Doctor Who. Missing...
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Allan Fish OFF 2018 – Day 5: Lady Beware (1987)
By J.D. Lafrance Burnt out from the debacle that was Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club (1984) and the commercial failure of Streets of Fire (1984), Diane Lane had gone from promising A-list...
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On Chesil Beach and A Kid Like Jake on Monday Morning Diary (June 4)
by Sam Juliano Many thanks to all who have followed the Allan Fish Online Film Festival, which is planned to run at the site until Friday June 8th. The writers again have been up to the task,...
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Alan Fish OFF – Day 6: Ecstasy (1933)
By Marilyn Ferdinand Ecstasy, a German-language film shot in Prague and Austria by a Czech director with an Austrian star and an international cast, had a movie life that perhaps could only end in...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Aristotle’s Plot; 1996; France/UK/Zimbabwe
by Sachin Gandhi I selected Cameroonian director Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Aristotle’s Plot because at its core, this film is about that vital debate of commercial vs artistic cinema, the blockbusters of...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival: The Brick and the Mortar/Khesht Va Ayeneh
by Anubhav Bist A woman, her identity obscured by a black veil, steps out of her taxi and disappears into the dead of night. Having collected his fare from this mysterious passenger, Haseem readies to...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Red Sky at Morning (1971)
by Sam Juliano American coming of age films became all the rage in the early 70’s. Frank Perry’s sexually candid Last Summer appeared midway through 1969. Peter Bogdonovich’s masterpiece The Last...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival and Weekend trip to Gettysburg, Pa on Monday...
At Gen. Lee’s headquarters in Gettysburg, Pa. on Saturday. We are staunch Unionists of course, but like to visit all the blue and grey sites. by Sam Juliano The second annual Allan Fish Online Film...
View Article# 114. The Forsyte Saga
by Adam Ferenz This BBC landmark, based on the books by John Galsworthy, debuted in 1967 on BBC2, then a fledgling network, and was repeated, almost immediately, on BBC1, to increased ratings and...
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KELLY REICHARDT’S ‘WENDY AND LUCY’
© 2018 by James Clark The truest way to the heart of Kelly Reichardt’s film, Wendy and Lucy (2008), may turn out to be its penultimate moment. This was not always my approach, as a reading of the...
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#113 Kolchak, the Night Stalker
by John Grant A train on the Chicago El clatters past the windows of the Independent News Service (INS). Within, investigative reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) is having his millionth stand-up...
View Article# 112. Our Friends in the North (1996)
by Adam Ferenz This epic of northern British life, set between 1964 and 1995, focuses on the lives, loves and losses of a group of four friends as they experience the shifting tides of late twentieth...
View Article# 111. Roots/Roots: The Next Generations (1977 and 1979)
by Adam Ferenz Not the first ever miniseries on American television, but perhaps the best. It may be somewhat dated today, a tad to the melodramatic side, but for the time, it was a necessary part of...
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No. 110. Six Feet Under
by Dennis Polifroni Many years ago, my aunt died. She had been suffering from an extremely aggressive form of cancer. She left behind a husband and two young children. To call her passing a tragedy...
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109. Lost in Space (1965-1968)
by Robert Hornak The faddish and fun story of the Space Family Robinson, which happens to be the name of the comic book the show was first based on, one whose creators had to sue to rectify the...
View Article108. Baseball (1939-present) (or 1994)
By Stephen Mullen (1) When I was growing up, in the 1970s in Maine, baseball on television meant NBC’s game of the week, ABC’s Monday Night Baseball, and maybe a Red Sox game a week. That plus Mel...
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