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“Housekeeping For Beginners,”“Sasquatch Sunset” and Mikey’s Absolution on...
by Sam Juliano As we approach the end of April, we will focus on the annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, which is entering its eighth year. In early May, I will send out a group e-mail to those...
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Challengers, convention signing, 1983 Best Popular Song Poll Results and 1984...
by Sam Juliano Some events are around the corner. I will be chaperoning our annual 8th grade Washington D.C. trip from Wednesday, May 8th, through Friday, May 10th. The Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online...
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Mark Smith, Evil Does Not Exist, Haydn Choral Art Society of New Jersey...
by Sam Juliano I will send out the e-mail chain about the Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on Saturday, May 11, the day after I return from the annual 3-day Washington D.C. 8th-grade...
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film...
by Sam Juliano The eighth annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival will launch on Tuesday, May 28th. A group email has been sent to all the participants of yesteryear, and NINE (9) writers have already...
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Song Poll Specifications and Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival on...
by Sam Juliano The 1985 song poll continues until next week. We have decided to go back to 1955 right after 1985 is completed, and we will do 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, and 1962 before we...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, 1985 Best Song Poll Results,...
by Sam Juliano Tomorrow, May 28th, marks a significant day for our site and film community. It’s the birthday of Allan Fish, a beloved member who would have turned 51. In his honor, we’re launching...
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Allan Fish Online Film Festival – 2024, Day 1
by Jamie Uhler While spring is so often a time of rebirth and regrowth, when my winter doldrums are finally thawed and the outdoors again become a viable option for biking and seeing friends that live...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival – Day 2: Apenas un...
by Sachin Gandhi This year’s AFOFF selection of the stellar 1949 Argentine noir Apenas un Delincuente was inspired by Allan’s ‘The Fish Obscuro’ column, although the film isn’t as much in the shadows...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day #3: “American Madness”...
By Marilyn Ferdinand Just as Allan was a beloved member of the online film community, there are few directors whose films have been as warmly embraced as those of Frank Capra. The Sicilian immigrant...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival – Day 4: The Naked Spur (1953;...
JIMMY STEWART MANNS UP AGAIN By Robert Hornak The film’s been covered on this site twice before, once by the venerable Ed Howard in 2013 and once by Mr. Fish himself in his 2009 roundup of the fifty...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival – Day #5: Kid Auto Races At...
. The Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2024 Kid Auto Races At Venice (aka The Kid Auto Race ; The Pest): Director / Screenwriter / Actor: Henry LehrmanShoulder Arms: Director /...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day 5: Genndy Tartakovsky’s...
by Dennis Polifroni TV REVIEW: Highly recommended Suppose one had been paying close attention to the long-awaited 5th and final season of Genndy Tartakovsky’s magical and mystical SAMURAI JACK. In...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day 6: “The Thin Red Line”
by Jay Giampietro Snow was falling as the secondhand smoke from Dennis’s Marlboro Light blew into my face. “A genius waits twenty years to make a movie because he only wants to do it if he’s gonna...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day 7, “Priscilla”
by Robert Butler Melancholic, poetic, and deeply empathetic, Sofia Coppola’s biopic Priscilla follows Priscilla Presley and her relationship, marriage, and breakup with Elvis Presley. The film is a...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Day #9: Twin Peaks Pilot...
by Joel Bocko On April 8, 1990, a new David Lynch work premiered to by far the biggest audience he’d ever receive: thirty-three million viewers on that day alone. The pilot of the new surreal mystery...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, Final Day: An Interview
by Sam Juliano The following transcript was recorded on June 6 at the Paradise Falls Community Center in Heaven’s Gate, Seraphsville, and transmitted via satellite. Sam: It’s been a long time, my...
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Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Festival, 1955 Greatest Song Poll Results,...
by Sam Juliano The Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival concluded on Friday. I don’t think I am overpraising it when I say it was one of the best in the series. Thanks to this year’s...
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A Tribute to Valerie Clark and Eighth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival...
by Sam Juliano Canadian Valerie Clark’s recent passing brought forth an outpouring of grief on her Facebook page, where many spoke of this remarkable lady in glowing terms, the kind of which I...
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The Bikeriders, 1956 Best Song Poll results and 1957 Best Poll launching on...
by Sam Juliano The 1956 Greatest Song Poll winner is The Five Satins’ timeless doo-wop classic, “In the Still of the Night!” The Five Satins’s immortal doo-wop classic “In the Still of the Night”...
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Greatest Westerns of All Time Poll and About Dry Grasses on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano The Greatest Western Films of All-Time Polling! (20 choices!) NOTE: Astoundingly, 87 ballots have been cast so far. The poll will run through next Saturday—We will also be doing...
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