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Sansho the Bailiff, Part Three: The Primacy of Family
From “City Lights” (1931), Charlie Chaplin’s tramp asks the flower girl, “Can you see now?” She replies (intertitle): “Yes, I can see now.” by Lee Price Sansho the Bailiff: Introduction to Part Three A...
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Thanksgiving Day, Favorite Fantasy Films Polling, Crossing, Emelia Perez, A...
by Sam Juliano I’m sorry for missing last week’s Monday Morning Diary. The manuscript for Mikey’s Absolution is due this Friday, November 28. The novel will be published on Wednesday, December 3....
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Mikey’s Absolution, 1989 Popular Song Results; 1990 Poll Launch; Wicked, The...
by Sam Juliano My third novel, Mikey’s Absolution, will be available on Amazon at the end of the week. My favorite of the three books has had a journey with late plot changes from zero-hour...
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Sansho the Bailiff, Part Four: Self-Sacrifice
Expanding circles on the water following Anju’s act of self-sacrifice in “Sansho the Bailiff,” (1954). By Lee Price Sansho the Bailiff: Introduction to Part Four A profound meditation on a world...
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Sansho the Bailiff, Part Five: Forgiveness
Left: Calligraphy: Kannon; Always, Pray to the Bodhisattva Kannon, Hakuin Ekaku (Japan, 1685-1768), hanging scroll. Right: Zushio visits the lake where his sister took her life. Hanging scroll from the...
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Memory, History of Cinema, and the Best Films of 2023
By Duane Porter One of my earliest memories is of sitting in the back seat of my parents car with my two younger sisters watching a movie on a big screen through the car’s front window. I don’t...
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Hard Truths, Nickel Boys, Flow, Queer, September 5, All We Imagine As Light,...
by Sam Juliano Last week’s Monday Morning Diary miss was regrettable, but the rush to get Mikey’s Absolution correctly formatted caused daily chaos. The book was uploaded to Amazon’s KDP on...
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Merry Christmas, Greatest Suspense Movie Polling , The Brutalist, Daughters...
by Sam Juliano We wish all our friends and readers worldwide the merriest Christmas this coming Wednesday. We issue remembrances of all we have lost. At Wonders in the Dark, we continue to pay tribute...
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Happy New Year, Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara; Red Rooms;...
by Sam Juliano Incredibly, we are entering our eighteenth year at Wonders in the Dark. I never could have foreseen the site lasting more than a year, yet here we are, just two years away from...
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Exhibiting Forgiveness; Vermiglio; Maria; Sometimes I Think About Dying and...
by Sam Juliano The Fairview Free Public Library will hold a Q&A and book presentation on Wednesday, February 5th, at 5:00 p.m. EST to officially launch Mikey’s Absolution. The event can be...
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Sansho the Bailiff, Part Six: Compassion
While working in Sansho’s slave compound, Anju hears a new arrival singing Tamaki’s song. by Lee Price Sansho the Bailiff: Introduction to Part Six A profound meditation on a world evenly divided...
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Link to all six Lee Price essays on Sansho the Bailiff
Links to all six Lee Price essays on Sansho the Bailiff: Links to all six of Lee Price’s essays on “Sansho the Bailiff” (ordered 6 down to 1) https://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/…/sansho-the…/...
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The Room Next Door and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano Wonders in the Dark would like to thank Lee Price for providing one of the site’s defining projects – a six-essay examination of Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1954 masterpiece, Sansho the Bailiff....
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Top 25 Films of 2024; Mikey’s Absolution Feedback; The Apprentice; I’m Still...
by Sam Juliano In a wild coincidence, I received private FB messages from seven (7) friends over the past TWO days, all of whom reported they had finished reading “Mikey’s Absolution.” Since I have...
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Book Launch at the Fairview Public Library on Wednesday, February 3 on the...
by Sam Juliano PROGRAM FOR BOOK LAUNCH! The Fairview Free Public Library book launch for Mikey’s Absolution is just days away! The event will be held at the Anderson Avenue location from 5:00 until...
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“Mikey’s Absolution” Library Event and Favorite Religious-themed Films...
by Sam Juliano I’d like to extend my deepest appreciation to those who attended Wednesday library book signing and readings of Mikey’s Absolution at the Fairview Free Public Library. Similarly, I’d...
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Coping with the wrong edition of “Mikey’s Absolution” on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano For those of you who either bought or received complimentary copies of Mikey’s Absolution sometime in the past weeks, please be aware that you received the error-prone original...
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Monday Morning Diary returns and Mickey 17 on Monday Morning Diary (March 10)
by Sam Juliano The Monday Morning Diary debuted almost eighteen years ago. What happened over the last few weeks – the MMD effectively has been MIA for 21 days up to this post (20, since the post is...
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1910s Film Poll, Looney Tunes Movie, Novocaine and Black Bag on Monday...
by Sam Juliano Our monumental DECADE FILM PROJECT begins today, Friday, March 14. We will be doing the 1910s – the ten years from 1910 to 1919. The voting window will extend until 11:00 p.m. EST,...
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Last Call and Misericordia on Monday Morning Diary (March 31)
by Sam Juliano The 1910s decade poll will run until Friday, April 4th. The response has been fantastic! The results will be posted over the weekend, followed by the launch of the 1920s polling....
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