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29. Cathy Come Home
by Allan Fish (UK 1966 77m) DVD2 Well, I was a bit fed up p Tony Garnett d Ken Loach w Jeremy Sandford ph Tony Imi ed Roy Watts art Sally Hulke Carol White (Cathy), Ray Brooks (Reg),...
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“We’ve always coped…”: MICHAEL HANEKE’S AMOUR
© 2013 by James Clark A film calling itself “Love,” (Amour) can disarm, simply by that trope, any comprehensive notice of shortfall in its protagonists. If the latter are a cute old couple in...
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‘Conversation in the Cathedral’ by Mario Vargas Llosa (1969)
by Jaime Grijalba. Wow, it’s been a long time since I last did one of these reviews for Wonders in the Dark, and maybe there are many out there who either don’t remember or don’t know what I’m talking...
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28. Gulag
by Allan Fish (UK 2000 180m) not on DVD The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians p Angus MacQueen, Liana Pomerantsev, Olivia Lichtenstein d Angus...
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You Can [Not] Repeat: Harold Ramis’“Groundhog Day”
By Bob Clark Note: In hindsight I should’ve rerun this last weekend and saved the Picnic at Hanging Rock for now, but I expected to be writing up some noirs playing locally that turned out cancelled...
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1977 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Annie Hall, US (7 votes) Best Director Woody Allen, Annie Hall (6 votes) Best Actor John Travolta, Saturday Night Fever (4 votes) Best Actress Diane Keaton, Annie Hall (9...
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Little Fugitive, Side Effects, Caesar Must Die and Oscar Nominated Animated...
Oscar-nominated animated short “The Paperman” is a real gem. by Sam Juliano A powerful blizzard pelted the northeast from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning, dropping about a foot of snow on the New...
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27. Bleak House
by Allan Fish (UK 2005 482m) DVD1/2 Shake me up!!! p Nigel Stafford-Clark d Justin Chadwick, Susanna White w Andrew Davies novel Charles Dickens ph Kieran McGuigan ed Paul Knight, Jason...
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On Theaters: ‘No’ (2012)
by Jaime Grijalba. This is a reprint of a review done at my blog Overlook’s Corridor back in December 2012, since this movie was still playing at that time in cinemas in Chile. Right now is having a...
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26. Hancock’s Half Hour/Hancock
by Allan Fish (UK 1956-1961 1,650m & 150m) DVD2 A man of his cal-eye-ber p/d Duncan Wood w Ray Galton, Alan Simpson m Wally Stott, Bob Sharples Tony Hancock (Anthony Aloysius St John...
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Once Upon Our Time: Behn Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild”, by way of...
By Bob Clark At the request of regular contributor Jaime Grijalba-Gomez, I’ve taken this week to expand upon my thoughts on last year’s Beasts of the Southern Wild and drum up a full piece for his...
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1978 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The Deer Hunter, US (5 votes) Best Director Terrence Malick, Days of Heaven (8 votes) Best Actor Robert de Niro, The Deer Hunter (5 votes) Best Actress Ingrid Bergman,...
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No, Sound City, Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, Gone with the Wind, and...
Master class rock documentary “Sound City” by Sam Juliano Having reached the mid-way point of February 2013, those of us in the northern hemisphere ‘snow zone’ have our fingers crossed that the white...
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25. The Strange World of Gurney Slade
by Allan Fish (UK 1960 150m) DVD2 Follow…proceed… p/d Alan Tarrant w Sid Green, Dick Hills m Max Harris Anthony Newley (Gurney Slade), Una Stubbs, Bernie Winters, Douglas Wilmer, Charles Lloyd...
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“It’s a different world now…”: LEE DANIELS’ THE PAPERBOY
© 2013 by James Clark Sitting in a young man’s car, parked at the Florida prison where the man she wants to marry but has not as yet met resides on Death Row, Charlotte Bless (her last name perhaps a...
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Jaime’s Obligatory Oscar Post (2013 edition)
by Jaime Grijalba. This year the Oscar race has had many turns and twists, as the video protagonized by Sam Juliano, Dennis Polifroni and (the not so) little Sammy repeated in its glorious 40 minutes...
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24. I CLAVDIVS
by Allan Fish (UK 1976 652m) DVD1/2 Old King Log p Martin Lisemore d Herbert Wise w Jack Pulman novels “I, Claudius” and “Claudius the God” by Robert Graves m Wilfrid Josephs art Tim Harvey...
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Things Are Looking Up: John Huston’s “The Maltese Falcon”, a Tale From the...
By Bob Clark One of the issues facing anyone who wants to experience classic films in their best condition is the matter of availability. Usually this revolves around the question of what is or isn’t...
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1979 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Apocalypse Now US (7 votes) Best Director Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (10 votes) Best Actor Peter Sellers, Being There (9 votes) Best Actress Hanna Schygulla, The...
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