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Red Psalm (Hungary; Miklos Jansco)
by Allan Fish Red Psalm (Hungary 1971 86m) DVD2 Aka. Még Kér a Nép Johnny is my darling… p Miklós Jancsó d Miklós Jancsó w Gyula Hernadi ph Janos Kende ed Miklós Jancsó m Ferenc Sebo art Tomás...
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Summer of Soul and F9 on Monday Morning Diary (July 12)
by Sam Juliano Moving toward the middle of July we continue to see more and more unmasked people in all places, though the Delta Varient remains an existing danger in various regions around the...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S “IVAN’S CHILDHOOD”“Are you going far?”
© 2021 James Clark The film genre of war appears to be pretty much straightforward. Alpha cultures cannot resist stealing the land and wealth of others. Their appetite for advantage knows no end....
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Black Widow and Pig on Monday Morning Diary (July 19)
by Sam Juliano Just when we thought everything was headed in the right direction we are now are facing a new reality. The Delta Varient has made its mark statewide and the numbers are again rising in...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Breaking Waves: Winslow Homer Paints the Sea
by Sam Juliano Esteemed author Robert Burleigh and legendary artist Wendell Minor have previously gone aquatic in their non-fiction collaboration Trapped! A Whale’s Rescue. The arresting work...
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The Woman Chaser
By J.D. Lafrance Based on the classic pulp novel of the same name by Charles Willeford, The Woman Chaser (1999) debuted at the New York Film Festival where it went on to play on the festival circuit...
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London (UK 1994)
by Allan Fish London (UK 1994 81m) DVD2 A testimony to Rimbaud p Keith Griffiths d/w Patrick Keiller ph Patrick Keiller ed Larry Sider narrated by Paul Scofield The style is a familiar one. Patrick...
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Old and Cousins on Monday Morning Diary (July 26)
by Sam Juliano We are in a strange place right now. The virus numbers have spiked again yet most of us who have been doubly vaccinated are circulating without masks unless we have having blood drawn,...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S “MIRROR”‘I took everything but forgot the key…Strange!”
© 2021 James Clark In the films we find necessary, there’s seldom, if ever, a chance to set in relief a smiling baby boy. Mirror (1975), by Andrei Tarkovsky, does not include such an event as a...
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Tokyo Olympics and Stillwater on Monday Morning Diary (August 2)
by Sam Juliano The dog days of August are upon us, meaning September and the start of school under uncertain health guidelines is right around the corner. The situation is looking more and more...
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John Beilin (1955-2021)
John Beilin’s Obituary (1955-2021) John was born on June 15, 1955 in New York City. He and his beloved wife Edi (nee Rasin) whom he married in 2014 resided in Florida and later in Woodbridge,...
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Summer Olympics, The Green Knight and The Suicide Squad on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano As we move forward towards mid-August, we are facing a resurgence of the fear and uncertainty that defined our continent and the rest of the world when COVID-19 numbers were wrecking...
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Caldecott Medal Contember: Twenty-One Steps
by Sam Juliano Changing of the Guard events around the world have often showcased fervent nationlism and ethnic pride. The United Kingdom’s version, staged with extravagent pomp and circumstance...
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Broken Lullaby (USA; 1932)
by Allan Fish Broken Lullaby (USA 1932 77m) DVD1/2 (France only) Aka. The Man I Killed La guerre est finie p Ernst Lubitsch d Ernst Lubitsch w Samson Raphaelson, Reginald Berkeley, Ernest Vajda play...
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Steven Soderbergh’s Che
By J.D. Lafrance Che (2008) began as a personal project for actor Benicio del Toro around the time he was making Traffic (2000) with Steven Soderbergh. Originally, he planned on making the film about...
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Respect, Jungle Cruise and Japanese Desert Island Film Polling on Monday...
by Sam Juliano An International “Desert Island” Film project has been initiated on FB and so far, incredibly almost 50 people have handed in ballots. The voting period ends on Monday night at 11:00...
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ANDREI TARKOVSKY’S ‘NOSTALGIA’“We need bigger ideas…”
© 2021 James Clark In the film, Nostalgia (1983), filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky is never more in debt to Ingmar Bergman while, at the same time, being never more himself. The vitriolic concerns...
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The East (De Oost) and Top 100 Japanese poll results on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano This past week our great friend and stupendous film writer Jim Clark published another brilliant essay in his Tarkovsky series on the director’s late career Nostalgia. I just resumed...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Unbound: The Life + Art of Judith Scott
by Sam Juliano Wykoff, New Jersey born and bred artist Melissa Sweet twice finished in the Caldecott winners circle, scoring silver honor medals for a pair of books she illustrated for Jen Bryant, A...
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British Top 100 Polling Results and new Best Films of Russia/Soviet Union...
by Sam Juliano The summer has been rushing by at seemingly breakneck speed, and September begins on Wednesday. We are in the same place now where we have been for the past several weeks....
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