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Short Film “Best Picture” at BAM and Tribeca Film Festival at Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano I am honored beyond words to learn this week that a short film which features me as the central character and host of my annual Oscar party at the Tiger Hose Firehouse has been selected...
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Barry Levinson’s Diner
By J.D. Lafrance A great hangout movie is hard to do well. You have to have a cast of memorable characters brought vividly to life by actors with quotable dialogue. All of these elements are crucial...
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Tolkien, 3rd Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival and Washington D.C....
(From L-R): Anthony Boyle, Tom Glynn-Carney, Patrick Gibson and Nicholas Hoult in the film TOLKIEN by Sam Juliano Mid-May and warm weather would seem to be synonymous but in the New York City and...
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James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News
By J.D. Lafrance After the success of the Academy Award-winning Terms of Endearment (1983), writer/director James L. Brooks spent a few years researching and writing what is possibly his most personal...
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘FANNY AND ALEXANDER’“How is it one becomes second rate?”
© 2019 by James Clark What we see, right at the beginning of this characteristically amazing film, is a one-of-a-kind head’s up: “Not For Pleasure Alone.” That is to serve as an irony about the...
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Top 15 Films of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival; All is True and Third Annual...
Scottish documentary “Scheme Birds” by Sam Juliano Following is a listing and short commentaries for my Top 15 Feature Films of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, which concluded two weeks ago: Scheme...
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Bruce Brown’s The Endless Summer
By J.D. Lafrance “Many surfers ride summer and winter, but the ultimate thing for most of us would be to have an endless summer – the warm water and waves without the summer crowds of California.” –...
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The White Crow, Booksmart, The Biggest Little Farm and Third Annual Allan...
screen cap from Rudolf Nuryev biopic “The White Crow” by Sam Juliano The Third Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival will launch this week on Tuesday, May 28th (on what would have been Allan’s 46th...
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Alexander Payne’s Sideways
By J.D. Lafrance Alexander Payne is part of an exciting wave of filmmakers who grew up during the 1970s and were subsequently influenced by the films from that era. His contemporaries include the...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival, 2019
Welcome to this, the third annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival (AF OFF 2019)! The festival will begin on Tuesday, May 28th (Allan’s 46th birthday) with a post by me, Jamie, and will (potentially)...
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Another Sunday and Sweet FA (1972, BBC), AFOFF 2019 Day 1
Given that the artwork of this years festival is more personal to Allan’s taste, I figured my pick should follow suit to officially kick Allan Fish OFF 2019! ‘Kick’ seems an apt word, what with the...
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Hands Over the City (1963, Italy, Francesco Rosi) AFOFF Day #2
by Sachin Gandhi I have selected Francesco Rosi’s 1963 film Hands Over the City (Le Mani sulla città) because it is a film that feels contemporary despite being released almost 6 decades ago. Given...
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Two Gems from Ken Russel (AFOFF Day #3)
by Adam Ferenz The late, great Allan Fish, to whom this festival is dedicated, was a scholar not just of film but of television, which he saw as intrinsically linked. Indeed, my ongoing work on the...
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Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story (1971, Woody Allen) AFOFF Day #4
By Robert Hornak A slight detour into nonsense. I gather that Allan, if not a Woody Allen fan, per se, at least respected his work since I see he put a dozen of the prolific filmmaker’s movies on his...
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Subarnarekha (India; Ritwik Ghatak) Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #5)
by Shubhajit Lahiri One of the most fascinating aspects in the world of arts or music or literature or cinema, is how two artists sometimes end up becoming conjoined, pop-culturally as well as in more...
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Rocketman, Godzilla and Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano The third annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival will run until Wednesday and thus far this noble venture founded by James Uhler has yielded stupendous posts by accomplished writers....
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Cabiria (1914) AFOFF Day #6
. Director: Giovanni Pastrone Screenwriter: Gabriele d’Annunzio By Roderick Heath This essay is proudly presented as part of the Allan Fish Online Film Festival. What impact it must have had in some...
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“Hello Out There” (1949): Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #7
by John Grant US / 31 minutes / bw / Huntington Hartford Dir: James Whale Pr: Huntington Hartford Scr: George W. Tobin Story: Hello Out There! (1941 play, staged 1942) by William Saroyan Cine: Karl...
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Indicator/Powerhouse blu rays: Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #8
Dearest Allan: In pondering my submission for the third annual online film festival at Wonders in the Dark, my mind drifted back to some of our classic four-way e mail correspondences. Jamie Uhler of...
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CLAIRE DENIS’‘BEAU TRAVAIL’“This is the rhythm of my life…”
© 2019 by James Clark We live at a time when athletic prowess abounds. Remarkable physical health races all about us, to our amazement. Such a state of affairs has been remarkably investigated...
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