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8. Modern Times
by Joel Bocko (Apologies for the premature posting last night. This here is the real deal. If the embedded videos give you any trouble, you can watch it directly on YouTube here and here.) The...
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7. Bringing Up Baby
David: “Don’t lose your head!” Susan: “I’ve got my head—I’ve lost my leopard!” by Brandie Ashe Bringing Up Baby (1938) is, without...
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43. Planet Earth 2006
by Allan Fish (UK 2006 550m) DVD1/2 The greatest cathedral of all p Vanessa Berlowitz, Shannon C.Malone, Alastair Fothergill d Alastair Fothergill w David Attenborough ph Michael Kelem, Doug...
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6. Playtime
by M. Roca (Due to a hectic schedule, this is an unedited version of my essay on Playtime. I will have the modified and fully combed over version available by this evening. When this message...
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The Treasure of Sierra Mordor: Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass’“The Return...
By Bob Clark The story of how J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings came to be adapted for animation is a strange one that begins from different directions, particularly different directions of American...
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1969 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The Wild Bunch, US (6 votes) Best Director Sam Peckinpah, The Wild Bunch (6 votes) Best Actor Dustin Hoffman, Midnight Cowboy & Jon Voight, Midnight Cowboy (4 votes,...
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Connecticut Tragedy, The Hobbit, Hyde Park on the Hudson, Dickens December...
by Sam Juliano The darkest Christmas season ever in the nation’s consciousness has come to pass, and the words “unspeakable,” “unconscionable” and “inconsolable” immediately come to mind, if indeed...
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5. The Gold Rush
by Sam Juliano The following is the transcript of classroom introduction, and post-film discussion in an undergraduate cinema studies class held in the Margaret Crowden Auditorium at Jersey City State...
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42. Auschwitz 2005
by Allan Fish (UK 2005 285m) DVD1/2 Aka. Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution Arbeit Macht Frei p Laurence Rees d Martina Balazova, Dominic Sutherland, Detief Siebert w Laurence Rees ph...
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4. Duck Soup (1933)
By Jon Warner At my parent’s house in Chicago there is this photo album with a slightly yellowed and faded photo. In it, is an image of a small boy, about age 4, who is holding an RCA videodisc in his...
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Da-reun na-ra-e-suh – 2012, Sang-soo Hong ****
by Jaime Grijalba. a.k.a. In Another Country director Hong Sang-soo (South Korea, 89 min) Hong Sang-soo is another of those korean directors that are always being talked about in certain circuits of...
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3. The General
by Ed Howard The General is one of the purest delights that the cinema has to offer. Its construction, and its appeal, is utterly simple, and yet there’s a visual poetry to it that goes far beyond its...
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2. City Lights
By Marilyn Ferdinand Among the many genius works of renaissance man Charlie Chaplin, City Lights stands as a singular achievement. It is not that other Chaplin films aren’t as funny, and the story for...
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41. The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 2004
by Allan Fish (UK 2004 180m) not on DVD We will defeat what doesn’t exist p/d/w Adam Curtis narrated by Adam Curtis We live in an age of conspiracy theories, of shadows in light and evil lurking...
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1. Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
By Roderick Heath More than 20 years since the end of the Cold War, and nearly a half-century since the film was released, why is Stanley Kubrick’s seventh feature, a modish fantasia dealing with the...
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (It May Be Your Last): Harman &...
by Bob Clark Of all the early pioneers of animation in Hollywood, perhaps none have gone so unduly forgotten as Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. The crucial part they played in the genesis in many of the...
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1970 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Into the first of the new decade…the last great one for American film, but the beginning of Europe’s decline… Best Picture The Conformist, Italy (10 votes) Best Director Bernardo...
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Zero Dark Thirty, Amour, The Impossible, Barbara, Perks/Wallflower, Comedy...
by Sam Juliano As we approach Christmas Day 2012, many of us with faith and optimism can look ahead to a much better year than the past one has yielded. While we at WitD feel the right candidate won...
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“Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!”: It’s a Wonderful Life’s Dark American...
by Joel Bocko If there’s a more American film than It’s a Wonderful Life, and a more American hero than George Bailey, I don’t know it. No other film more comprehensively or powerfully captures the...
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Dear Friends…Here at Wonders in the Dark…My Good Friend Lori Moore, has...
“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” –From a headstone in Ireland “Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts,and we are never the...
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