Clik here to view.
34. The Graduate
by John Greco There are some films that are indelibly burned into your psyche for whatever reason. It may have to do with the heart of every audience member jumping into their throats the first time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two Short Films from Asia
by Jaime Grijalba. For today I have something special, two short films from the world of Asia and from two countries that are getting more and more recognition as time goes by and as we go through the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
33. Airplane
by M. Roca “This guy has no flying experience at all. He’s a menace to himself and everything else in the air… yes, birds, too.” Released during the first year of the 1980s, Airplane couldn’t help but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
32. Safety Last (1923)
by Allan Fish NB: this is reused due to Sam understandably being unable to prepare a piece in the last few days. USA 1923 70m) DVD1/2 I’ll be back as soon as I ditch the cop p Harold Lloyd d Sam...
View ArticleClik here to view.
53. The Signalman 1976
by Allan Fish (UK 1976 42m) DVD2 Hello, below there p Rosemary Hill d Lawrence Gordon Clark w Andrew Davies story Charles Dickens ph David Whitson ed Peter Evans m Stephen Deutsch Denholm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
31. Young Frankenstein
by M. Roca The stories of both Frankenstein and Dracula, becoming huge hits during the early talkie era, have long been certified as Hollywood box office legend for taking a secondary genre and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keep Calm and Carry On: Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Sam Mendes’“Skyfall”
By Bob Clark In the past 50 years, there have been about 23 Bond films, give or take the ones not produced by EON. That’s a rate of a movie almost every two years, and each one at a scale and scope...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1964 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Doctor Strangelove, UK (8 votes) Best Director Stanley Kubrick, Doctor Strangelove (10 votes) Best Actor Rod Steiger, The Pawnbroker (11 votes) Best Actress Madhabi...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lincoln, Skyfall, Wreck-It Ralph, Flight, and President Obama’s Re-Election...
Daniel-Day Lewis in masterful “Lincoln” Glorious Re-election of President Barack Obama by Sam Juliano A second storm battered the northeast on Wednesday, causing power outages for many who had just had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
30. The Awful Truth
by Pat Perry A few years back, when memes were passed around the film blogosphere like a flu virus, I was invited to name my ten favorite film characters of all time. Right at the very top of my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
52. Pennies from Heaven 1978
by Allan Fish (UK 1978 477m) DVD1/2 Roll Along Prairie Moon p Kenith Trodd d Piers Haggard w Dennis Potter ph Ken Westbury ed David Martin ch Tudor Davies art Tim Harvey Bob Hoskins...
View ArticleClik here to view.
29. Being There
by Sam Juliano “It’s for sure a white man’s world in America. Look here: I raised that boy since he was the size of a piss-aint. And I’ll say right now, he never learned to read and write. No sir. Had...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Too civilized…”: ROBERT BRESSON’S ‘THE DEVIL, PROBABLY’
© 2012 by James Clark The film, Balthazar at Risk (1966), by Robert Bresson, envelops us in a flood of the most intimate cares of consciousness by reason of the donkey/protagonist’s constancy of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
28. Groundhog Day (1993)
by Jon Warner Groundhog Day was the summative collaboration between Harold Ramis and Bill Murray that spanned 6 films. Ramis wrote and/or directed for several of Bill Murray’s best and most loved...
View ArticleClik here to view.
27. M. Hulot’s Holiday
by Shubhajit Lahiri Though not as universally popular as Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, master French filmmaker Jacques Tati’s creation Monsieur Hulot too remains an unforgettable character where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
51. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy 1979
by Allan Fish (UK 1979 315m) DVD1/2 Who is Gerald? p Jonathan Powell d John Irvin w Arthur Hopcraft novel John Le Carré ph Tony Pierce-Roberts ed Chris Wimble m Geoffrey Burgon art...
View ArticleClik here to view.
26. To Be or Not To Be (1942)
by Jon Warner If I had to name the one Ernst Lubitsch film that I simply cannot get enough of, it would be this one. Now he is probably more well-known for his musical comedies with Maurice Chevalier,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Past-Life Post-Mortem: Tom Tykwer and the Wachowski’s “Cloud Atlas”
By Bob Clark By now, enough time has gone by for a reasonably definitive answer on the question of Cloud Atlas to develop. Weeks have gone by since its release into theaters and subsequent failure to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
1965 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supp...
by Allan Fish It bloody had to happen. A tie for Best Picture. You lot are about as decisive as the People’s Front of Judea. Best Picture Pierrot le Fou, France & Repulsion, UK (5 votes each,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Late Quartet, Anna Karenina, Silver Linings Playbook and Douglas Fairbanks...
by Sam Juliano After Halloween was taken from us by a wrathful Mother Nature and the northeast has come back from a month of grief and deprivation, those of us in the blighted areas will still join...
View Article