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Quartet, 56 Up, The Story of Film, the Golden Globes and Oscar Nominations on...
by Sam Juliano The Oscar nominations were announced on Thursday morning, and true to form there were some outrageous snubs courtesy of the Director’s branch, that again have us questioning the...
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35. The War Game 1965
by Allan Fish (UK 1965 49m) DVD1/2 Your protection against nuclear attack d/w Peter Watkins ph Peter Bartlett narrated by Michael Aspel, Dick Graham A film that became a by-word for the BBC’s...
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Confessions of a Les Miz Junkie
by Sam Juliano One of the running jokes the last few weeks is how many times I have watched Les Miserables on the big screen. I have kept this big secret from circulating, as I would surely be seen...
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Jaime’s Worst Films of 2012
by Jaime Grijalba. I said in an earlier post last year that I didn’t actually like to do reviews on bad movies, mainly because it was so easy to go all funny and mocking towards it, and that’s not a...
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34., The Spongers 1978
by Allan Fish (UK 1978 90m) not on DVD It’s nothing to do with us p Tony Garnett d Roland Joffé w Jim Allen ph Nat Crosby ed Bill Shapter Christine Hargreaves (Pauline Crosby), Bernard Hill...
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Further Tales From the Big Screen: Best New Releases of 2012
By Bob Clark It’s been fine year of proclaiming the death knell of cinema and the end of its relevancy as the dominant mode of popular art and entertainment. Most of this high talk and hot air has...
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1974 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The Godfather Part Two, US (13 votes) Best Director Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part Two (10 votes) Best Actor Gene Hackman, The Conversation (8 votes) Best Actress...
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Les Misérables – 1925, Henri Fescourt
by Allan Fish (France 1925 160m (orig.369m)) not on DVD A great imagist with words p Louis Nalpas, Jean Sapene, Henri Fescourt d Henri Fescourt w Arthur Bernède, Henri Fescourt novel Victor...
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Hors Satan, Mama, The Story of Film and Joel Bocko’s ‘Class of 2002′ on...
Screen cap from Bruno Dumont’s minimalist ‘Hors Satan’ by Sam Juliano January 2013 has offered up some surprisingly mild weather to this point, though this revelation could well jinx the spirit of...
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33. The Ascent of Man 1973
by Allan Fish (UK 1973 651m) DVD1/2 A mosaic of animal and angel p Dick Gilling, Adrian Malone d Mick Jackson, David John Kennard, Dick Gilling, Adrian Malone w Jacob Bronowski ph Nat Crosby,...
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“Can we be sure of anything here?”: ROBERT BRESSON’S ‘A MAN ESCAPED’
© 2013 by James Clark For a filmmaker whom virtually no one knows nowadays, nor cares to know, Robert Bresson elicits remarkable agitation in print. His elegant cinematography does, of course, gain...
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Why am I laughing?: ‘Fatty Drives the Bus’ (1999)
by Jaime Grijalba. Steve Carlson made me do this. Troma is a production company that has been made famous for his independent approach to filmmaking as well as always going for the most outrageous and...
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32. Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister 1980-1988
by Allan Fish (UK 1980-1984/1986-1988 1,147m) DVD1/2 Creative inertia p/d Peter Whitmore, Sydney Lotterby w Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn m Ronnie Hazelhurst titles Gerald Scarfe Paul Eddington...
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1975 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Barry Lyndon, UK/US (11 votes) Best Director Stanley Kubrick, Barry Lyndon (10 votes) Best Actor Al Pacino, Dog Day Afternoon (12 votes) Best Actress Isabelle Adjani, The...
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Sandy Hook ‘Cash Mob’ at Newtown, 5 Broken Cameras, Jean Brodie, and Sherlock...
Sign posted in front windows of all businesses on Church Hill Road in Sandy Hook village of Newtown by Sam Juliano A dry cold underlined the winter sun on bucolic Church Hill Road in the picturesque...
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31. Monty Python’s Flying Circus 1969-1974
by Allan Fish (UK 1969-1974 1,479m) DVD1/2 IT’S!!!! p John Howard Davies d Ian McNaughton w Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin animation Terry...
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30. Culloden 1964
by Allan Fish (UK 1964 72m) DVD1/2 God is on our side p Peter Watkins d/w Peter Watkins ph Dick Bush ed Michael Bradsell art Anne Davey, Brendan Woods, Colin MacLeod, John Shaw Culloden is a...
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Waiting a Million Years, Just For Us: Peter Weir’s “Picnic at Hanging Rock”,...
By Bob Clark Among my growing obsessions while following movies for the past several years has been observing the cinematic experience– that is, the act of actually seeing a movie in the cinema, in...
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1976 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Taxi Driver, US (10 votes) Best Director Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (12 votes) Best Actor Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver (13 votes) Best Actress Sissy Spacek, Carrie &...
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Koch, Warm Bodies, The Pirogue and I Was Born But on Monday Morning Diary...
Ed Koch, celebrated New York City Mayor from 1977 to 1989 by Sam Juliano Ed Koch. New York City’s former Mayor was a larger than life personality who led the Big Apple at a crucial time of social and...
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