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The Lineup
by J.D. Lafrance Coming early on in his career, The Lineup (1958) is the kind of no-nonsense crime film that director Don Siegel excelled at and, in some ways, anticipated the same approach he took to...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday Morning Diary (May 24)
by Sam Juliano I’d like to express my deepest appreciation to all who have offered support and congratulations for the imminent publication of my first novel, Paradise Atop the Hudson. It is nearly...
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This Ain’t No Party, This Ain’t No Disco: Life Amidst Uneasy Times
The kick off post is by Jamie Uhler We opened last year’s Allan Fish Online Film Festival with a pointing out of the obvious: how being under lockdown in a pandemic would necessitate the exact modus...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Day #2: Black Test Car (1962;...
by Sachin Gandhi That car’s dirty. It’s dirty..black as pitch Yasuzô Masumura’s Black Test Car is a brilliant industrial espionage film about two rival car manufacturers who are racing to get their...
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Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) – Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto
Written by Jon Warner in honor of the 5th Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival “Your future is metal”. “We can mutate the whole world into metal”. “We can rust the world into the dust of the...
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The General (1926): Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2021 – Day 4
The Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2021 Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton Screenwriters: Al Boasberg, Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton, Charles Henry Smith, Paul Gerard Smith By...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #5 “The Revolution Will Not...
by Joel Bocko The story is simple, straightforward, and the style carries the conviction of a raw immediacy difficult to fake. This is not to say that elaborate machinations and cagey deceptions...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #6: Satan’s Triangle
By J.D. Lafrance People have been fascinated with the enigma that is the Bermuda Triangle for decades. It is a region marked by the Florida coast and the islands of Bermuda and the Bahamas, a “danger...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day #7 KELLY REICHARDT’S ‘FIRST...
by James Clark For her sagas of crime, the films of Kelly Reichardt dedicate a remarkable wealth of ardor. Such tutelage becomes not only a gift but a confusion, a fertile confusion....
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival Day #8 “I Was Born But… Thoughts...
The gravestone at Yasujirô Ozu's resting place is of large black granite with the only inscription the Japanese character for void by Tony D’Ambra “A little girl is returning from the beach, at dusk,...
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Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Day #9 “Sound of Metal”
by Sam Juliano Note: This was originally scheduled as the final post in this year’s festival. However, We may yet be getting one more from Adam Ferenz. Stay tuned! Scheduling rules do not apply...
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Tony D’Ambra and Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday...
by Sam Juliano The Fifth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival was a huge success, in fact the biggest triumph of any we’ve hosted. One of the reasons was the re-emergence of veteran Australian film...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2021 on Monday Morning Diary (June 14)
by Sam Juliano Lucille and I received our virtual pass to this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. We managed to watch seven features in the first few days, with many more lined up for the coming week....
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Father’s Day and Tribeca Film Festival 2021 Report #2 on Monday Morning Diary...
Screen cap from my favorite film of Tribeca this year, “The Last Film Show” by Sam Juliano Father’s Day was ushered in with gorgeous weather in and around New York City. Mask wearing has greatly...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S ‘ANDREI RUBLEV’“I have a different road”
© 2021 James Clark The film, Andrei Rublev (1966), does so much more than shatter a routine. A veritable chronical of ancient Russia, we come to see how bad political power gets, not that...
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Christmas in July (USA, 1940)
by Allan Fish Christmas in July (USA 1940 67m) Note: this is the first of a number of Allan Fish reviews that have not previously been published at Wonders in the Dark. I plan to add two per week....
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Summer of 85 and Allan Fish reviews on Monday Morning Diary (June 28)
by Sam Juliano A short while before Allan Fish’s untimely passing we discussed his book. I suggested to him that I publish a batch of his reviews not yet ported over to the site. He told me that I...
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Stripes
By J.D. Lafrance Watching Stripes (1981) again after all these years makes me nostalgic for the early comedies of the first generation of Saturday Night Live cast members: Animal House (1978),...
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The Profound Desires of the Gods (Japan 1968)
Note: This is the second of many planned unpublished reviews from Allan Fish that will be appearing at this site over the coming months and even years. by Allan Fish The Profound Desires of the Gods...
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Zola, 1776, and scorching heat on Tuesday Morning Diary (July 6)
by Sam Juliano Scorching heat has understandably sent many taking refuge indoors under overworked air conditioning as the month of July starts off the way June ended. July 4th itself was tolerable,...
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