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16. The Apartment
by John Greco Office politics has changed a lot over the years but sex in the workplace, in one form or another, is alive and well. Billy Wilder’s superb comedy/drama is a time capsule look back at...
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In Space, No One Can Hear You Juxtapose: Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson’s...
By Bob Clark Over the course of this column, I’ve largely been covering the by now standardized track of comics-to-movies adaptations, usually centering on sequential stories both mainstream and niche...
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1967 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Playtime, France (6 votes) Best Director Jacques Tati, Playtime (8 votes) Best Actor Alain Delon, Le Samourai (7 votes) Best Actress Catherine Deneuve, Belle de Jour (6...
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Amour 2012 – Three Haneke colossi in a row
by Allan Fish (France 2012 127m) DVD1/2 Aka. Love Playing Beethoven’s Bagatelle p Margaret Ménégoz d/w Michael Haneke ph Darius Khondji ed Monika Willi, Nadine Muse art Jean-Vincent Puzos,...
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A Royal Affair, Hitchcock, Samsara, Killing Them Softly and Mea Maxima Culpa:...
Magnificent Danish film ‘A Royal Affair’ examines court intrigue and adultery in 17th Century Europe by Sam Juliano The long-running comedy countdown is nearing the end, with the final fifteen films...
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15. His Girl Friday
by Jim Clark As we get underway with a new year, and thoughts of exciting new things coming up, let’s pause for once with something quite old that doesn’t look so out of place after all. His Girl...
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46. Upstairs, Downstairs 1971-1975
by Allan Fish (UK 1971-1975 3,172m) DVD1/2 What are we going to do with Uncle Arthur? p John Hawkesworth d Bill Bain, Derek Bennett, Raymond Menmuir Simon Langton, Herbert Wise, James Ormerod,...
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14. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
by Jaime Grijalba. “Wi not trei a holiday in Sweden this yër? See the loveli lakes. The wonderful telephone system. And mani interesting furry animals. Including the majestik moose. A moose once bit...
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Pieta – 2012, Ki-duk Kim ****1/2
by Jaime Grijalba. (South Korea, 104 min) It’s hard to confront a director as controversial as Kim Ki-duk, specially when you have only heard about his controversial nature and have to judge it in...
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13. Kind Hearts and Coronets
by Mark Smith This taunt, this partial exchange between two “old pals” from different social castes who detest each other neatly encapsulates the dark comic impudence of Kind Hearts and Coronets, the...
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12. Some Like It Hot
by John Greco Do you remember the first film you ever recorded? I do, it was Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot way back sometime in the 1960’s. “Wait a minute!” You say, “How can you have recorded it...
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45. Our Mutual Friend 1998
by Allan Fish (UK 1998 350m) DVD1/2 It just keeps rolling along p Catherine Wearing d Julian Faring w Sandy Welch novel Charles Dickens ph David Odd ed Frances Parker m Adrian Johnston...
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11. Sherlock Jr.
by Ed Howard Sherlock Jr. is one of the cinema’s greatest tributes to itself, a dazzling, relentlessly inventive ode to the movies as an escape, a source of dreams and a fantastical reflection of the...
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There and Back Again In Time For Tea: Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass’“The...
By Bob Clark The various television specials produced and directed by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass throughout the 60′s, 70′s and 80′s represent some of the most distinctive animation in America...
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1968 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Let’s get it over with… Best Picture 2001: A Space Odyssey, UK/US (10 votes) Best Director Stanley Kubrick 2001: A Space Odyssey (12 votes) Best Actor Peter O’Toole The Lion in Winter (6...
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Wagner and Me, The Central Park Five, Hitler’s Children, Edward Scissorhands...
Stephen Frye’s passionate documentary on the great German opera composer: “Wagner and Me” Ken Burns in front of poster of “The Central Park Five” by Sam Juliano We are about two weeks away from ho ho...
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10. Sullivan’s Travels
by R. D. Finch When making out my ballot for the Comedy Countdown here at Wonders in the Dark, the biggest dilemma I faced was deciding just what was a comedy and what wasn’t. As I worked on the list,...
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44. State of Play 2003
by Allan Fish (UK 2003 350m) DVD2 A missing silver briefcase p Hilary Bevan Jones d David Yates w Paul Abbott ph Chris Seager ed Mark Day m Nicholas Hooper art Donal Woods David Morrissey...
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9. Annie Hall
by Dennis Polifroni (USA 1977 93m) DVD/Blu Ray p. Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe d. Woody Allen w. Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman ed. Ralph Rosenblum ph. Gordon Willis art. Mel Bourne cos. Ruth...
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“For the beauty of the gesture…”: LEOS CARAX’S HOLY MOTORS
© 2012 by James Clark We’ve now hit the Christmas Red Zone and, as promised, here’s a movie right for the season—one that hasn’t come close to being a Christmas classic (in fact having come to light...
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