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Dishonorary Awards: Why Not to Watch the Oscars This Year
by Joel Bocko By refusing to broadcast the Honorary Awards for the fourth year running, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has given the cold shoulder to luminaries of film history....
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2013 Muriel Winners for 2012 films!
by Sam Juliano This was the first year I participated in the esteemed ‘Muriel Awards’ voting. Jaimie Grijalba also cast his maiden ballot in the venture run by Paul Clark and Steve Carlson and...
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Circusmania at Film Forum, Like Someone in Love, The Hollow Crown, Blood, The...
Chaplin’s ‘The Circus’ screened in front of sold our crowd on Sunday morning at Film Forum by Sam Juliano The Oscars aired on Sunday night, and Lucille and I hosted our annual awards party at a local...
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23. Son of Man
by Allan Fish (UK 1969 90m) not on DVD Love your enemies p Graeme MacDonald d Gareth Davies w Dennis Potter ph Robert Wright art Spencer Chapman cos Dinah Collin Colin Blakely (Jesus),...
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Is ‘Crash’ the worst Oscar winner ever?
2005′s ‘Crash’ may well be worst Oscar Best Picture winner ever by Sam Juliano One of the most popular ongoing Oscar games is to identify the absolute worst choices ever made for Best Picture over the...
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22. An Age of Kings
by Allan Fish (UK 1960 947m) DVD1 This demi-paradise p Peter Dews d Michael Hayes, Peter Dews plays William Shakespeare m Christopher Whelen, Arthur Bliss art Stanley Morris Tom Fleming...
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To the Wonder – 2012, Terrence Malick
by Allan Fish (USA 2012 112m) DVD1/2 (eventually) Love makes us one p Sarah Green, Nicolas Gondo d/w Terrence Malick ph Emmanuel Lubezki ed Keith Fraase, A.J.Edwards, Shane Hazen, Mark...
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Worlds of Pure Imagination: Hideyuki Karuta and Koji Masunari’s “Welcome to...
By Bob Clark Note– This piece is rerunning on the occasion of this film’s appearing this weekend in the New York International Children’s Film Festival again, this time in an English dub. Anyone with...
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1980 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Raging Bull, US (12 votes) Best Director Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull (12 votes) Best Actor Robert De Niro, Raging Bull (18 votes) Best Actress Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary...
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Stoker, The Gatekeepers, Jack the Giant Slayer, King Kong and Fay Wray...
Jeremy Juliano at Film Forum for screening of “King Kong” and participation in ‘Fay Wray screamalike contest” wearing tee-shirt he won in raffle drawing. by Sam Juliano What ever happened to the years...
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Stepping back for a while
by Sam Juliano You know the phrase high maintenance. Well I have found this fact of life very daunting in recent weeks, both domestically- when there has been a family health scare – and as applicable...
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21. A History of Britain
by Allan Fish (UK 2000-2002 945m) DVD1/2 This sceptred isle p/d Claire Beaven, Ian Bremner, Liz Hartford w Simon Schama ed Philippa Daniel m John Harle presented by Simon Schama with the...
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“It’s mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack”: QUENTIN TARANTINO’S KILL BILL
© 2013 by James Clark The Hunger Games is a lavishly and subtly eccentric film. It bursts into view for us in the course of setting in relief the function of the work of Robert Bresson. As recently...
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‘Captain Pantoja and the Special Service’ (1973) by Mario Vargas Llosa
by Jaime Grijalba Even if the last time I was reviewing a Mario Vargas Llosa novel I said that ‘Conversations in the Cathedral’ was the one book that he had to write for him to receive the Nobel, I...
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20. Penda’s Fen
(UK 1974 88m) not on DVD Balance of the mind p David Rose d Alan Clarke w David Rudkin ph Michael Williams ed Henry Fowler art Michael Edwards Spencer Banks (Stephen Franklin), Georgine...
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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn – KICKSTARTER APPEAL
by Allan Fish This is an appeal on behalf of a friend who has been working on a documentary project for several years about the life and death of Leslie Howard entitled Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave...
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Pop Goes the Art: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Made in USA”, a Tale From the Big Screen
By Bob Clark It’s depressing at times to think of how many films by my favorite directors I’ve been exposed to primarily on television. There are obvious cases like films by Lucas & Spielberg, or...
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1981 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Coup de Torchon, France & Le Pont du Nord, France (3 votes each, TIE!!!) Best Director Manoel de Oliveira, Francisca (4 votes) Best Actor Paul Newman, Absence of Malice...
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Oz the Great and Powerful, Jason and the Argonauts, papal conclave and Movie...
Screen cap from Sam Raimi’s “Os the Great and Powerful” by Sam Juliano I’d like first off to express my deepest appreciation to my dear friends and some WitD readers who sent me supportive e mails and...
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19. Days of Hope
by Allan Fish (UK 1975 410m) DVD2 Know Thy Place p Tony Garnett d Ken Loach w Jim Allen ph Tony Pierce-Roberts, John Else m Marc Wilkinson Paul Copley (Ben Matthews), Pamela Brighton (Sarah...
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