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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, “Fiddler on the Roof”...
by Sam Juliano The Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival will launch this coming Saturday, May 28th, with an opening salvo by project founder Jamie Uhler. Ten people have enlisted for the...
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(Not quite) Paradise Atop the Hudson
As I sit down to flick the computer on, poised to press play on a few films to start the Sixth(!) Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival (Allan Fish OFF 2022), I do so by turning the calendar, and...
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by Joel Bocko This review was originally written in 2016 for a series on my favorite films. What it is • The House is Black is not a work of fiction, but the “documentary” description doesn’t quite...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival and African/Mideastern Polling...
by Sam Juliano An unspeakable school event in Uvalde, Texas has brought back the gun control issue in a big way -as well it should- but again the unconscionable horror has people all around the...
View ArticleSixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Day #3: “Two Fantastical,...
by Bobby Jopsson Tired of the everyday work hassle? Lost in the usual grind of arguing with the boss? Jaded having discovered every classic from the halcyon era of Hollywood’s Golden Age of the ’40?...
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6th Annual AFOFF – Day #4: EQUINOX FLOWER / 彼岸花 (Yasujirō Ozu, 1958)
BRIEF THOUGHTS ON OZU’S FIRST COLOR FILM, AND A HUMBLE ODE TO ALLAN’S HAIKU-LIKE ESSAY STRUCTURE by Robert Hornak After absorbing most of his prodigious catalog before it, Ozu’s first color film...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Day #5: Welcome Home, Soldier Boys
By J.D. Lafrance In the wake of the Vietnam War, many films were made that examined what happened to American soldiers returning home, from classy prestigious studio films such as The Deer Hunter...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day #6 “I Saw the Devil”
by Marco Tremble with Min-Sik Choi, Byung-Hun Lee; directed by Jee-Woon Kim running time 144 min. I Saw the Devil is what can be only described as one of the most extreme revenge thrillers I’ve seen....
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival – Day #7: Bullitt (1968)
The Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2022 Director: Peter YatesScreenwriters: Harry Kleiner, Alan R. Trustman By Roderick Heath Words like classic, iconic, and seminal are very often...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival – Day #8, “Amma Ariyan” (Report...
by Sachin Gandhi My selection for the 6th AFOFF is inspired by Allan’s incredible ‘The Fish Obscuro’ section. I always used to look forward to see what film Allan would post about in this section....
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AFOFF, Day #9: Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): “the artist has a responsibility”
By Tony D’Ambra – expanded and updated from an article originally posted at filmsnoir.net on 24 July 2011 “There is no idea, no theory, no way of life that cannot be reshaped, illuminated and made...
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Benediction and Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Monday...
by Sam Juliano Many thanks to all the great writers who have given the Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival distinct scholarly heft and astounding diversity. I say it every year, but I’ll...
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Sixth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day #10: The Dance of the Seven...
by Adam Ferenz Allan turned me on to the existence of this gem, telling me how the Strauss family threatened the BBC, which got cold feet and banned the film, a ban that is still in effect. He sent me...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Final Day, “Benediction” and the COVID-19...
by Sam Juliano Dearest Allan: Greetings! I know we haven’t spoken in a few weeks, but I did promise I will give you a full report on the on-line film festival in your honor. It is beyond my...
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2022 Tribeca Film Festival on Monday Morning Diary (June 12)
by Sam Juliano Many thanks to all the sensational writers and Wonders in the Dark readers for the impassioned involvement in the just-completed Sixth Annual Allan Fish Film Festival. I dare say this...
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INGMAR BERGMAN’S ‘CRISIS’“I intend to make a big splash!”
© 2022 James Clark Filmmaker/dramatist, Ingmar Bergman began to show what he could do during the era of the Nazis. In all his presentations you would think that such a matter would be on his mind...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2022 and “Lightyear” on Monday Morning Diary (June 20)
by Sam Juliano The final day for students in Thursday, while teachers end their school year on Friday. Yours Truly will be working the summer program for the 27th consecutive year from June 29th to...
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Elvis and The Black Phone on Monday Morning Diary (June 27)
by Sam Juliano I have now surpassed 75,000 words in the writing of Irish Jesus in Fairview, and have quickened my pace as new ideas have been coming to me, daily. But a few crucial chapters still...
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Africa and Middle East polling results and July 4th on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano July 4th was once a time of incalculable joy in Fairview! Baby boomers regularly immersed in the priceless memories that defined their coming of age in the Borough of Fairview will...
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The “Rest of Europe” polling has been launched!
“Rest of Europe” polling is hereby launched! Six countries not previously considered will constitute the “Rest of Europe” poll in a month-long project that will run until August 5th. The six are:...
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