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Habemus Papam: Argentinian, Jorge Mario Bergoglio surprise choice as new Pope...
by Sam Juliano While the deck was basically stacked for the prospects of yet another unyielding conservative papal selection, it must at least be said that today’s shock announcement from the Vatican...
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Masters of Horror: An Introduction and #1 – Georges Méliès
by Jaime Grijalba An Introduction to the Series Welcome one and all to a new series of articles and features at the Wonders in the Dark. In this new segment that will go up most thursdays (when the...
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18. Brideshead Revisited
by Allan Fish (UK 1981 640m) DVD1/2 Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas p Derek Granger d Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg w John Mortimer novel Evelyn Waugh ph various ed Anthony Ham...
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Decisive Battles: Notes on “Operation Yashima”
Two reasons to rerun this article this year– both the second anniversary of the devastating crises in Japan that began March 11, 2011, and a rare American television broadcast of Hideaki Anno’s magnum...
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1982 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Fanny and Alexander, Sweden (9 votes) Best Director Ingmar Bergman, Fanny and Alexander (9 votes) Best Actor Ben Kingsley, Gandhi (6 votes) Best Actress Meryl Streep,...
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Francesca da Rimini on Met Opera HD, Beyond the Hills and big screen Frank...
Marcello Giordani and Eva-Maria Westbroek in Zandonai’s opera ‘Francesca da Rimimi’ performed at the Met and broadcast Saturday on HD in movie theatres worldwide Screen cap from Christian Mongiu’s...
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17. The Office
by Allan Fish (UK 2001-2003 440m) DVD1/2 Free love on the free love highway p Ash Atalla d/w Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant theme song “Handbags & Gladrags” by Mike d’Abo performed by Fin...
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“You’ve exhausted me, the two of you…”: MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI’S LA NOTTE...
© 2013 by James Clark This past year has brought a rich array of films that tackle from various angles the challenge of doing justice to one’s sensibility. In paying homage to these works, I would...
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Masters of Horror: #2 – Paul Wegener
by Jaime Grijalba. Brief Introduction/Thanks I want to thank for all the support that this new series has garnered and I hope that in the near future it can gain more discussion into the ouvre of the...
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16. Shooting the Past
by Allan Fish (UK 1999 182m) DVD1/2 The Gadarene Club p John Chapman d/w Stephen Poliakoff ph Bruno de Keyser, Ernie Vincze ed Paul Tothill m Adrian Johnston art John-Paul Kelly cos...
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Notes From the 2013 New York International Children’s Film Festival
By Bob Clark This weekend marks the closing of this New York International Children’s Film Festival, which has been one of his highest profile years yet, with releases in multiple theaters throughout...
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1983 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The King of Comedy, US (5 votes) Best Director Robert Bresson, L’Argent (5 votes) Best Actor Robert Duvall, Tender Mercies (5 votes) Best Actress Jane Alexander, Testament...
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The Sapphires, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Young...
Screen cap from Australian charmer “The Sapphires” about Down Under soul-singing quartet by Sam Juliano March of last year boasted some lovely Spring weather, as 19 of the first 22 days of the month...
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15. Blackadder
by Allan Fish Another effort to move Field Marshal Haig’s drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin. (UK 1983-1989 815m) DVD1/2 I have a cunning plan p John Lloyd d Martin Sharlow, Mandie...
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Desert Island Series One: Choose Your 25 British Favorites
by Sam Juliano Unless we count some relinquished worldwide possessions, it would be difficult to find a proper British desert island for the hermetic movie fan to indulge in the most cherished of all...
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Masters of Horror #3 – Henrik Galeen
by Jaime Grijalba. File #3 – Henrik Galeen This Austrian-born and German-working filmmaker is one of the most important figures of the birth of what’s been wrongly called german expressionism, and...
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14. 1984
by Allan Fish the next in the series of small screen masterworks (UK 1954 107m) not on DVD Aka. Nineteen Eighty-Four This has been a Ministry of Truth broadcast p/d Rudolph Cartier w Nigel Kneale...
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Knowing Better is Half the Battle: “GI Joe: Retaliation” on Page and Screen
By Bob Clark It’s almost peculiar to see just how much emotional investment there is paid to a franchise of cartoons, comics and now movies that have, for all intents and purposes, been based on a...
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1984 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Amadeus: director’s cut, US (5 votes) Best Director Milos Forman, Amadeus: director’s cut & Jim Jarmusch, Stranger Than Paradise (3 votes each, TIE!) Best Actor F.Murray...
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Easter Parade; My Brother the Devil; Room 237; Full Metal Jacket; Barry...
Judges for ‘Crazy Hat Contest’ at Film Forum after holiday screening of 1948 musical classic “Easter Parade” flank Jeremy Juliano, who won second-place prize – a blu-ray of the film. To Jeremy’s...
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