Clik here to view.
The Whistlers and Democratic Primary on Monday Morning Diary (March 9)
by Sam Juliano The coronavirus scare is now expanding into a nationwide and worldwide panic that is incing closer to drastic steps that could curtail or suspend public events and even cancel classes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
By J.D. Lafrance Filmmaker Terry Gilliam once remarked in an interview that “when times are bad, I can’t believe you can live without fantasy or imagination.” This statement seems particularly valid...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coronavirus Pandemic on Monday Morning Diary (March 16)
by Sam Juliano Public school systems have been shuttered with home schooling via online options being employed by teachers on call. Across the nation public events have been cancelled or postponed....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Fear, Uncertainty and Hope on Monday Morning Diary (March 23)
A long line of cars waits to enter a drive-through COVID-19 coronavirus testing center in Paramus, N.J., Friday, March 20, 2020. The facility opened Friday in Bergen County which has been the state’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘THE MAGIC FLUTE’“Can this be the end of worry?”
© 2020 by James Clark The films of Ingmar Bergman always present difficulties—difficulties of narrative (as with nearly all films); and difficulties of theme (as almost unique). Unlike...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: I Saw the Devil (2010)
by Marco Tremble with Min-Sik Choi, Byung-Hun Lee; directed by Jee-Woon Kim’ running time 144 min. I Saw the Devil is what can be only described as one of the most extreme revenge thrillers I’ve seen....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Mad Max (1979)
by Marco Tremble Australia; Directed by George Miller; Starring: – Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Steve Bisley, Roger Ward, Hugh Keys-Byrne, Vincent Gill and Geoff Parry. Mad Max is the underrated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Living in practical Quarantine on Monday Morning Diary (March 30)
by Sam Juliano Life as we knew it has forever been altered. Here in the northern New Jersey/New York City Metropolitan area we are hunkered down in the epicenter of the pandemic. Fear and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Martha Coolidge’s Real Genius
by J.D. Lafrance In the 1980s, Martha Coolidge’s films were a welcome antidote to the dominance of John Hughes’ output. On the surface, her films appear to be quite similar, but whereas Hughes’ films...
View ArticleStaying the Course on Monday Morning Diary (April 6)
by Sam Juliano The same day-to-day fear and uncertainty has left so many of us while hunkered in concerned about the weekly grocery excursion, armed with masks and gloves. I stopped listening to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hidalgo
By J.D. Lafrance Filmmaker Joe Johnston is something of a curious anomaly in Hollywood. He got his start as a protégé of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, adopting their style of filmmaking once he...
View ArticleTaking Few Risks on Monday Morning Diary (April 13)
by Sam Juliano For quite some time moving forward routines will be sustained and indoor living will only be abbreviated for those much concerned about trips for groceries and medicine Between hearing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INGMAR BERGMAN’S SUMMER WITH MONIKA “We’ll see the whole wide world!”
© 2020 by James Clark Ingmar Bergman’s breakaway film, Summer Interlude (1951), introduces not only startlement amidst stick-in-the-mud proclivities; but one lone young man who heeds its...
View ArticleEverything Sustained on Monday Morning Diary (April 20)
by Sam Juliano And the beat goes on as we move into late April, hoping daily for some reprieve, for some glimmer of hope to deliver us all from the fear that continues to creep up on us whenever we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brian De Palma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities
By J.D. Lafrance “And I think if you look at the movie now, and you don’t know anything about the book, and you get it out of the time that it was released, I think you can see it in a whole different...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 25 School, Boarding School and University set films on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano As we near the end of April there are more than encouraging signs. The fearful death number has actually dropped from 342 to 106 from Saturday to Sunday here in New Jersey. That is by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
4th Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday Morning Diary (May 4)
by Sam Juliano We continue to wish our dear friends and readers safety moving forward. Repetition can be tiring but presently we are all trying to weather this storm and reach that light at the end...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland
By J.D. Lafrance In this cynical and jaded world in which we live in idealism and optimism are often mistakenly equated with naiveté or stupidity. This may explain why Tomorrowland (2015) tanked so...
View ArticleClik here to view.
INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘A LESSON IN LOVE’“What do you do?”
© 2020 by James Clark The film we’re about to come to grips with, namely, Ingmar Bergman’s, A Lesson in Love (1954), has by all and sundry, maintained that its action amounts to be a “comedy”—a...
View ArticleStill Serious but Hopeful on Monday Morning Diary (May 11)
by Sam Juliano Things are looking more hopeful at present but we are still quite a distance from any true comfort or confidence what with other reports warning on future resurgences in several months....
View Article