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94. Being John Malkovich (1999)
by Jaime Grijalba. It is fascinating to actually see again this film in the light of this countdown and find how incredibly funny it is regarding its dialogue, plot and even shot composition in its...
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Propaganda – 2012 ***1/2
by Jaime Grijalba. (North Korea, 95 min.) This is by far one of the weirdest finds I’ve ever had in this year of focusing on asian films so far. It’s a north korean documentary that has no credited...
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93. Sleeper (1973)
by Jaime Grijalba. You have to give it to Woody Allen, he is an infatigable director, he always manages to have one movie a year, most of the time decent, some times great, very rarely bad, and that’s...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Our previous entry was a band, Manchester’s Buzzcocks, whose genius lay in reworked the guitar based love themed single in the age of punk. As every other rule of rock and roll was being...
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92. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
d Tim Burton p Richard Gilbert Abramson, Robert Shapiro (Aspen Film Society studio) w Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, Michael Varhol s Paul Reubens (chief comic), Elizabeth Daily, Mark Holton, Diane...
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77. North and South – 2004
by Allan Fish (UK 2004 235m) DVD1/2 It’s grim up north p Kate Bartlett d Brian Percival w Sandy Welch novel Elizabeth Gaskell ph Peter Greenhalgh ed Kristina Hetherington m Martin Phipps...
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91. La Dolce Vita (1960)
by Allan Fish (Italy/France 1960 174m) DVD1/2 Aka. The Sweet Life This isn’t love, it’s brutalisation! p Giuseppe Arnato d Federico Fellini w Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano,...
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Out of the Machine and Into the Shell: Masamune Shirow’s “Appleseed” on Page...
By Bob Clark While reading Masamune Shirow’s work in manga after being exposed to their animated adaptations, it’s easy to take for granted the growth and development of ideas and sensibilities...
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90. The Dentist (1932)
by Tony d’Ambra The pre-coder The Dentist is about as close as Hollywood ever got to Dada. W. C. Fields wrote and starred in this late Mack Sennett talkie about a dentist who would rather be creating...
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76. Life on Mars – 2006-2007
by Allan Fish (UK 2006-2007 920m) DVD1/2 A word in yer shell-like, pal p Cameron Roach, Claire Parker d S.J.Clarkson, John Alexander, John McKay, Bharat Nalluri, Richard Clark, Andrew Gunn...
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89. La Grande Bouffe (aka La grande abbuffata, English: The Big Feast, The...
d Marco Ferreri p Vincent Malle, Jean-Pierre Rassam w Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona s Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol m Philippe Sarde e Claudine...
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“We’ve fallen into a Trap”: Robert Bresson’s ‘Four Nights of a Dreamer”
© 2012 by James Clark In trying to convey the special contributions inherent in the films of Robert Bresson, there emerges, to complicate matters enormously, the question of actually being able to see...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Several months ago, actually almost a year ago, I posted a quick recount of seeing the Damned perform live in Chicago as part of their 35 anniversary tour at the end of one of this Series...
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87. The Thin Man 1934
by Judy Geater If there’s one murder mystery where nobody cares whodunit, it has to be The Thin Man. Why waste time puzzling over clues when you could be enjoying William Powell and Myrna Loy, and...
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75. 20,000 Streets Under the Sky – 2005
by Allan Fish (UK 2005 150m) DVD1/2 Coucher avec moi ce soir p Kate Harwood d Simon Curtis w Kevin Elyot novels “The Midnight Bell”, “The Siege of Pleasure” & “The Plains of Cement” by...
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86. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
by Pedro Silva On Almodovar’s films everything is extreme. His universe of characters and situations is exacerbated staged, often within kitsch environments over the sound of old boleros. On ‘Mujeres...
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History (and the Future) Repeating Itself: Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Journey of...
By Bob Clark When looking over the entirety of an artist’s oeuvre in any medium, it’s natural to see recurring themes and archetypes from work to work, and in the case of narrative artists similar...
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74. Whistle and I’ll Come to You – 1968
The next in a series of masterpieces of the small screen by Allan Fish (UK 1968 40m) DVD2 Who is this who is coming? p Jonathan Miller d/w Jonathan Miller story M.R.James ph Dick Bush ed...
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84. The Fireman’s Ball (1967)
by Shubhajit Lahiri If film noirs are known for their cynicism, nihilism, and stylized photography and chiaroscuro, Italian Neorealism for disarming simplicity, stark realism and lyrical storytelling,...
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