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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘THE DEVIL’S EYE’“We must get to the root of the evil…”
© 2021 by James Clark Early on, in my tenure with Wonders in the Dark, I delighted in the films of Jacques Demy. In those days, I guess I was easier to please. In time, I realized that only two...
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George Stevens’ Giant
By J.D. Lafrance “It is a saga of America…Though the film chronicles the rise of a great Texas cattle and oil dynasty and its relationship to the rest of the community, it could be the story of any...
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Golden Globes, I Care a Lot; Rialto and The Devil’s Eye on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano We really do have reason to be optimistic in view of the lowering of cases and hospitalizations which most attribute to the rising number of vaccinations. Students are returning...
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday and Penguin Bloom on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano The typical March weather is now regaling us with mercurial tenacity as temperatures rise and fall at a time of year when strong winds and clothing uncertainty are most prevalent. Of...
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Oscar nominations on Monday Morning Diary (March 15)
by Sam Juliano And the beat goes on mostly in a positive vein. Vaccinations continue at a record pace and more and more who were originally adverse are now playing the game as it should be played....
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘ALL THESE WOMEN’: “The architecture of this house is very...
© 2021 by James Clark The endeavors of the films of Ingmar Bergman involve a remarkably wide range. Being a magician of dramatic forces, he puts into our hands myriad dilemmas, seldom, or never...
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Promising Young Woman and Hillbilly Elegy on Monday Morning Diary (March 22)
by Sam Juliano It’s official. Spring 2021 has arrived and with it a real sense of hope and better days ahead. There remains of course people out there who would rather defy sensible regulations and...
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Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway
By J.D. Lafrance By the time he made The Getaway (1972), Steven McQueen was in desperate need of a commercially successful film. His last three were box office flops, especially his last one, Junior...
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The Father; Judas and the Black Messiah; Quo Vadis Aida and News of the World...
by Sam Juliano Many of us feel much more comfortable now and have ventured out armed with the vaccinations but are still staying the course wearing masks and socially distancing. After one full year...
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Easter Sunday, “I’m Thinking of Ending Things,”, “My Octopus Teacher”,...
A “stone cold” masterpiece in both senses! Charlie Kaufman’s “I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is a five star film and places in my Top 3 of this past year! by Sam Juliano It was an earlier-than-usual...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S ‘SOLARIS’“We don’t want to conquer space at all. We want...
© 2021 by James Clark Ingmar Bergman, not widely known to praise other filmmakers, was, however, on one occasion, drawn to remark: “My discovery of Tarkovsky’s first film [Ivan’s Childhood, 1962] was...
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DGA; BAFTA Awards; “Onward”; “Over the Moon”; “A Shaun the Sheep Movie:...
by Sam Juliano As expected the Director’s Guild handed out their prize for this past year’s films to the talented Chinese-American woman Chloe Zhao for the masterful Nomadland. The BAFTA’s will be...
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
by J.D. Lafrance In 1969, two important westerns came out examining the end of the Wild West in very different ways. Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch was a blood-soaked elegy to its aging protagonists...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival and Oscar Night 2021 on Monday...
by Sam Juliano The site will again be staging the Allan Fish Online Film Festival in observance of our late master’s May 28th birthday. Remarkably this will be the fifth consecutive year we will be...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S ‘THE SACRIFICE’“Don’t be afraid. There’s no such thing as...
© 2021 by James Clark Having tested the waters of the mysterious Andrei Tarkovsky, by way of his film, Solaris (1972), I feel obliged to settle matters that could test the patience of those...
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Oliver Stone’s The Doors
By J.D. Lafrance Anticipation was high when it was announced that Oliver Stone would be filming a biopic about the popular rock band the Doors. With Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July...
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Raya and the Last Dragon and Separation on Monday Morning Diary (May 3)
by Sam Juliano A group e mail will be sent out on Tuesday morning, soliciting involvement for the upcoming Allan Fish Online Film Festival. A few have already pledged a post, and it is anticipated...
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Mother’s Day and Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday...
by Sam Juliano As this post is going up on Sunday morning I’d like to wish all those irreplaceable moms and their adoring families the happiest of Mother’s Days! The weather is certainly beautiful in...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S ‘STALKER’“Prisoner? I’m imprisoned everywhere…”
© 2021 by James Clark Our protagonist, early on in this mammoth undertaking, and en route to a client, protests to an imaginary companion, “My dear, the world is so utterly boring. There’s no...
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Allan Fish Online Festival and Paradise Atop the Hudson on Monday Morning...
Screen capture from Tarkovsky’s “Stalker,” reviewed magnificently this past week by co-Editor Jim Clatk by Sam Juliano We are inching closer to the Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival,...
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