POV: Norowareta firumu – 2012, Norio Tsuruta ****
by Jaime Grijalba. a.k.a. P.O.V. – A Cursed Film (Japan, 92 min) First of all, let me redirect you to my blog once again, because it is of interest for this post. In the recent days I’ve started a new...
View ArticleHitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ Tops ‘Citizen Kane’ in prestigious BFI Sight & Sound...
Sight & Sound The Critics’ Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time 1. Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958) 2. Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 4. La Règle du jeu (Renoir, 1939) 5....
View ArticleA Simple Life 2011 – Ann Hui – one of the greatest films of the millennium
by Allan Fish (Hong Kong 2011 118m) DVD1/2 Aka. Tao Jie No road to the magic mountain p Roger Lee, Andy Lau, Ann Hui d Ann Hui w Roger Lee, Susan Chan ph Nelson Yu Lik-Wai ed Chi-Leung Kwong,...
View Article81. Doctor Who 1963-1989
by Allan Fish (UK 1963-1989 17,650m) DVD1/2 (selected episodes only) A police box standing in a junk yard… p/d/w various created by Sydney Newman main theme Ron Grainer William Hartnell (The 1st...
View ArticleMargaret (Extended Version) 2011/2012 – Kenneth Lonergan
by Allan Fish (USA 2011/2012 186m) DVD1 No cowboy hats in the Upper West Side p Sydney Pollack, Scott Rudin, Gary Gilbert, Anthony Minghella d/w Kenneth Lonergan ph Ryszard Lenczewski ed Annie...
View Article1950 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Short, Best Actor, Best Actress,...
by Allan Fish Once more unto the hustings… Best Picture Sunset Boulevard, US (10 votes) Best Director Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard (11 votes) Best Short Rabbit of Seville, US, Chuck Jones (12 votes)...
View ArticleComedy Countdown Launch, Planet of Snail, Universal Festival, The Wire and...
by Sam Juliano The long-planned and deliberated upon Top 100 ‘Comedy Countdown’ officially launches today with an essay by Tony d’Ambra on the Preston Sturges classic that finished in No. 100 position....
View Article100. The Miracle of Morgans Creek (1944)
by Tony d’Ambra Small town 40s America. Picket fences, porches, and quiet tree-lined streets. Places with names like Bedford Falls and Morgans Creek. Wise mothers, irascible strict fathers with hearts...
View Article80. Doctor Who 2005-
by Allan Fish (UK 2005- 4,696m) DVD1/2 The shining world of the seven systems p various d various w Russell T.Davies, Steven Moffat, etc. m Murray Gold Christopher Eccleston (9th Doctor), David...
View Article99. Slap Shot (1977)
by J.D. Lafrance So how did the 1970s – a decade known for its nihilistic cinema – give birth to some of the best sports comedies in history? With ease, irreverence, and cynicism. In the big...
View Article“Love is Strange”: Terrence Malick’s ‘Badlands’
© 2012 by James Clark Robert Bresson’s Mouchette is the kind of motion-deficient movie an attentive viewer could mull over for a long time. Coming on the heels of a production about a composed donkey...
View Article98. The Kid From Borneo (Our Gang; 1933)
by Sam Juliano From the early 20′s to the mid 40′s a total of 221 Our Gang comedies were made. This represents the largest number of films in an American series ever produced, and over decades they...
View Article97. Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
by Shubhajit Lahiri Francois Truffaut, along with his iconic contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette et al, was one of the founding members of the revolutionary French...
View Article79. Karaoke – 1996
by Allan Fish (UK 1996 210m) DVD2 Why must I be a teenager in love? p Kenith Tridd d Renny Rye w Dennis Potter ph Ashley Rowe ed Clare Douglas m Christopher Gunning art Gary Williamson...
View Article96. Whisky Galore
by Allan Fish (UK 1949 82m) DVD2 Aka. Tight Little Island Mourning for a departed spirit p Monja Danischewsky d Alexander Mackendrick w Compton Mackenzie, Angus MacPhail novel Compton Mackenzie...
View ArticleUtopian Blues: Masamune Shirow’s “Appleseed” on Page and Screen, Part 1
By Bob Clark In the West, the thirty-year vet manga artist Masamune Shirow is known mainly for spawning the Ghost in the Shell series, adapted for animation in critically acclaimed films and television...
View Article1951 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp...
by Allan Fish Tennessee Williams vs Robert Bresson vs a mouthful of ‘humbug”… Best Picture The Diary of a Country Priest, France (7 votes) Best Director Robert Bresson, The Diary of a Country Priest (7...
View ArticleFarewell My Queen, Easy Money, Meet the Fokkens, Lonesome, Cobra Woman and...
by Sam Juliano This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and...
View Article95. Election (1999)
by Dean Treadway Fittingly, Alexander Payne’s 1999 film Election kicks off with a decidedly penile lawn sprinkler shooting its payload over the fields behind George Washington Carver High School. All...
View Article78. The Rainbow – 1988
by Allan Fish (UK 1988 178m) DVD1 200 years Brangwen and 16 years Ursula p Chris Parr d Stuart Burge w Anne Devlin novel D.H.Lawrence ph John Kenway ed John Rosser m Simon Rogers, John...
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