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Bad Girl and Death on the Nile on Monday Morning Diary (February 14)
With the distinguished critic and friend Farran Smith Nehme, Saturday afternoon at MoMA for screening of Frank Borzage’s “Bad Girl” by Sam Juliano We are wishing our friends a Happy Valentine’s Day and...
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Bergman Island, Drive My Car and The Worst Person in the World on Monday...
by Sam Juliano Continued thank yous to all those who have cast ballots in our still-running Scandinavia and Iceland polling. Both on Facebook at the site here, attendance has been outstanding! For...
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Scandinavian and Iceland Poll Results and latest sale figures on “Paradise...
by Sam Juliano The Scandinavian and Iceland poll has concluded and the results are hereby printed on this week’s Monday Morning Diary post. Up next will be the greatest films of India (Top 20), which...
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The Cinema of India
No country produces more films annually, and with a rich tradition including Bollywood and the world-class work of Ray, Ghatek and so many more, this is one of the world’s most celebrated...
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Ukraine, The Batman and India film polling on Monday Morning Diary (March 7)
by Sam Juliano The horror in Ukraine has held many of us prisoners to the hourly reports. This is surely one of the scariest of times for so many reasons. We pledge our support to the yellow and...
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FEDERICO FELLINI and TONINO GUERRA’S ‘GINGER AND FRED’“She said I’d win big”
© 2022 James Clark Though it may seem strange, this film today, namely, Ginger and Fred (1985), by filmmaker, Federico Fellini (sort of), needs to show a bit of the early Fellini film, The White...
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Cyrano and Dog on Monday Morning Diary (March 14)
by Sam Juliano The war in Ukraine, perpetrated by the evil dictator of Russia continues to outrage the world, but daily the horrors continue to show no manner of relenting. For nearly all of us,...
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Production of “Cats” and India films polling on Monday Morning Diary (March 21)
by Sam Juliano Spring is being ushered in with excellent weather in the Metropolitan region. Meanwhile the world remains in the grip of barbarism in the Ukraine, an unconscionable affront to...
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Jimmy Webb concert; tumultuous Oscar show; King Richard and final 2021 ‘Best...
by Sam Juliano The Films of India polling was extended one final time until Friday, April 1st at 5:00 P.M. This coming Wednesday, I will be hosting my very first book signing and presentation, and it...
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Fairview Library book signing event, Indian Top 100 results and French...
by Sam Juliano The Indian film Top 100 has been tabulated and posted, and I have included this remarkable listing of masterpieces on this very post. After some extensions, the final results are...
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Greatest French Film Poll has launched!
The Greatest Films of France Polling!!! Choosing only thirty (30) films for one of the greatest cinemas in the world is a Herculeon task, and to have left off Clair, Clement, Guitry, Eustache,...
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FEDERICO FELLINI and TONINO GUERRA’S ‘AND THE SHIP SAILS ON’“That’s Not Human…”
by James Clark 2022 As with the scatter gun presentation I’ve been using for the films, when it came into the little clutch of “Fellini” films (driven by film writer, Tonino Guerra), I once...
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French Film Polling and Easter week on Monday Morning Diary (April 11)
by Sam Juliano This past week, Wonders in the Dark essayist extraordinaire Jim Clark published another fabulous entry in his ongoing Federico Fellini series, on the 1983 And the Ship Sails On....
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Passover, Easter Sunday and French Film Polling on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano Wishing all our Jewish friends a Happy Passover and hoping those celebrating Easter had a happy and soulful Sunday. Lucille and I attended the 10:30 mass at Our Lady of Grace Church...
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The Northman and French Film Polling on Monday Morning Diary (April 25)
by Sam Juliano We are fast-approaching May, and seasonal weather has been announcing this development almost daily. The situation in Ukraine remains almost apocalyptic, though inspired resistance...
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Results of marathon French Film Polling on Monday Morning Diary (May 2)
by Sam Juliano I will be departing the area early Wednesday morning to serve as a chaperone on the annual 8th grade Washington D. C. trip, and will return late Friday night. Over the past week I...
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Spain and Portugal Film Polling!
Next stop, the Iberian peninsula! Voters are hereby asked to list their Top fifteen (15) films from Spain and/or Portugal. The deadline for submissions will be Tuesday, May 24th at 5:00 P.M. As...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Spain and Portugal Film polling...
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 sixth consecutive year we will...
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘A SHIP TO INDIA’: “You long for something new, too…”
by James Clark Those of us who love serious filmmaking, know filmmaker, Ingmar Bergman, to be not only brilliant but unique. How unique? In our film today, A Ship to India (1947), the two protagonists...
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Broadway Musical “Girl from the North Country” and Sixth Annual Allan Fish...
by Sam Juliano The schedule for the upcoming Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival is as follows: Saturday, May 28 Jamie Uhler Sunday, May 29 Joel Bocko Monday, May...
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