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“Help me!”/ “That’s what I’m doing…”: LARS VON TRIER’S ANTICHRIST
© 2012 by James Clark Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest is a masterful exploration of a shattering marvel tenaciously hidden within our going about our business. As physical entities we find...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Such is my opinion on most punk acts that generally I’ll always take the album that shows the major stylistic or ideological leap in a band or artists career as my favorite. Last week was...
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87. The Story of Film – An Odyssey – 2011
by Allan Fish (UK 2011 945m) DVD2 It looked like our dreams d/w Mark Cousins ph Mark Cousins ed Timo Longer narrated by Mark Cousins with Sharmila Tagore, Kyoko Kagawa, Lars Von Trier, Stanley...
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Standing Out to Survive: Yuen Sang-ho’s “The King of Pigs” and Keiichi Sato &...
By Bob Clark If there is one basic rule of humanity that stretches across generations and cultural borders of every ilk, a good candidate might be that people will generally be as inhumane to one...
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1947 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish and once more onto the breach… Best Picture Out of the Past, US (6 votes, by 1 over Black Narcissus) Best Director Jacques Tourneur, Out of the Past (8 votes) Best Short The Cat...
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The Imposter, Frankenstein, Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, E.T. and The...
by Sam Juliano The comedy countdown will officially commence on Monday, August 6th with an essay on No. 100 by Sydney native and WitD alumni Tony d’Ambra. Voting Tabulator Extraordinaire Angelo A....
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86. Sherlock 2010
by Allan Fish (UK 2010- 532m) DVD1/2 I – O – U… p Sue Vertue, Rebecca Eaton, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat d Paul McGuigan, Euros Lyn created by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss w Steven Moffat, Mark...
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Kaizoku sentai Gôkaijâ vs Uchuu keiji Gyaban the Movie – 2012, Shôjirô...
by Jaime Grijalba. (Japan, 64 min.) As a child, one of my favorite TV shows was one silly, cheap-looking and badly-acted kid series called “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers”. It was a silly show that even...
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85. Hamlet at Elsinore 1964
by Allan Fish (UK 1964 170m) DVD1 A prince among Danes p Peter Luke d Philip Saville play William Shakespeare m Richard Rodney Bennett art Paul Arnt Thompsen cos Olive Harris Christopher...
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Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel: Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”...
By Bob Clark It almost seems inevitable now that Christopher Nolan’s latest and last Batman movie should find itself treading upon so many political fault lines as it finds itself released this...
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1948 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish A week already, doesn’t time fly when you’re rained in. Best Picture Bicycle Thieves, Italy (9 votes) Best Director John Huston, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (6 votes, by 1 from...
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The Hollow Crown – 2012, A TV masterwork too late for the TV countdown
by Allan Fish (UK 2012 520m) DVD2 Let this acceptance take p Rupert Ryle Hodges, Gareth Neame, Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris d Rupert Goold, Richard Eyre, Thea Sharrock plays William Shakespeare ph...
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The Wire, The Dark Night Rises, Criss Cross, The Killers, and Film Forum’s...
by Sam Juliano The comedy countdown draws nearer, with an opening salvo scheduled for Monday, August 6th courtesy of Sydney native Tony d’Ambra, who also provided the fantastic sidebar banner. Other...
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84. England, My England 1995
by Allan Fish (UK 1995 152m) DVD1/2 A nation of babbling backseat cab drivers p Mike Bluett d Tony Palmer w John Osborne, Charles Wood ph Nic Knowland m Henry Purcell md John Eliot Gardiner...
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“Lost, Sir! Lost!”: Robert Bresson’s ‘Mouchette’
Copyright © 2012 by James Clark Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket and Diary of a Country Priest broach many compelling subjects, not the least of which being that humankind is faced with...
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83. Funland 2005
by Allan Fish (UK 2005 358m) DVD2 Looking for Ambrose Chapel p Sanne Wohlenberg d Dearbhla Walsh, Susan Tully, Brian Kirk w Simon Ashdown, Jeremy Dyson ph Lukas Strebel ed Emer Reynolds, Tony...
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There’s Always a Bigger Fish: Junji Ito and Takayuki Hirao’s “Gyo” on Page...
By Bob Clark In one of those now perennial summer seasons during which the theaters suffer a surplus of big-budgeted movies derived from superhero stories and other narratives originating in the...
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1949 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish Sunday coming round quicker each week… — Best Picture The Third Man, UK (18 votes) Best Director Carol Reed, The Third Man (13 votes) Best Short Bad Luck Blackie, Tex Avery, US (5 votes)...
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Killer Joe, Universal 100th Anniversary Festival and Comedy Countdown on...
by Sam Juliano Indian summer is just about upon us, though the more seasoned veterans would apply the term dog days of summer. Either way we seem headed for outdoor steam baths in our respective...
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82. This is England ’86 2010
by Allan Fish (UK 2010 184m) DVD2 Countdown from 13… p Rebekah Wray Rogers, Mark Herbert, Derrin Schlesinger d Shane Meadows, Tom Harper w Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne ph Danny Cohen ed Mark...
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