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“When people risk their lives, shouldn’t it be for something important?”:...
©2013 James Clark While working on a probe of Malik Bendjelloul’s Searching for Sugar Man, my attention would sometimes drift over to the Steve McQueen film which I had puzzled over for a long time,...
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Masters of Horror #6 – F.W. Murnau
by Jaime Grijalba. File #6 – F.W. Murnau Hey! What do you know? Another well known director for this installment of Masters of Horror! I’m glad that as we move forward in time the names get more...
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To Boldly Go Where Many, Many Others Have Gone Before: “Star Trek Into Darkness”
By Bob Clark Though it began and broke new conceptual and thematic ground on television, and wound up thriving in spin-off after spin-off years later, the Star Trek franchise only really took hold and...
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1991 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture La Belle Noiseuse, France, The Double Life of Veronique, France/Poland, JFK, US & Raise the Red Lantern, China (3 votes each, four-way TIE!) Best Director Krzysztof...
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Cliffside Park High School Spring Concert; Hofstra University Graduation and...
Cliffside Park High School symphonic band, including back row trumpet player Sammy Juliano at ‘Crescendo’ Spring Concert on Wednesday, May 15 (Sammy’s birthday!) by Sam Juliano With the end of the...
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A Tale of Genji – 1951, Kozaburo Yoshimura
by Allan Fish (Japan 1951 123m) not on DVD Aka. Genji Monogatari Be happy p Masaichi Nagata d Kozaburo Yoshimura w Kaneto Shindo book Murasaki Shikibu ph Kohei Sugiyama m Akira Ifukube art...
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BAFICI 2013 – In Competition
by Jaime Grijalba. Well, might as well write about some other movies of the BAFICI. Last month I had two entries on my coverage of the Buenos Aires Festival International of Cinema Independent that I...
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The Nest – 1980, Jaime de Armiñan
by Allan Fish (Spain 1980 103m) not on DVD Aka. El Nido More than a holy fool d/w Jaime de Armiñán ph Teo Escamilla ed José Luiz Matesanz m Alejandro Masso art Jean-Claude Hoerner Héctor...
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Bot and Switch: Mamoru Oshii’s “Patlabor: The Mobile Police”
By Bob Clark Mamoru Oshii’s career throughout the 70′s and 80′s is interesting to consider when looking at his rise to notoreity as a feature director in the 90′s and 00′s. Like many animators in...
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1992 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Unforgiven, US (7 votes) Best Director Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven (7 votes) Best Actor Denzel Washington, Malcolm X (9 votes) Best Actress Emma Thompson, Howards End (10...
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Monday Morning Diary will become Tuesday Morning Diary this week
As per normal WitD procedure the regularly-scheduled Monday Morning Diary will be moved to Tuesday (May 28) because of the three day Memorial Day weekend stateside. Hence, the Tuesday Morning Diary...
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The Telephone Book – 1971, Nelson Lynn
by Allan Fish (USA 1971 88m) DVD1 The searching white lights of Moo p Merwin A.Bloch d/w Nelson Lynn ph Leon Perer ed Ian Saltzberg m Nate Sassover art Jim Taylor Sarah Kennedy (Alice),...
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Being Traviata, Fill the Void, Stories We Tell, Scarecrow, A Pig Across Paris...
Jean Gabin and Andre Bourvil in Claude Autant-Lara’s marvelous 1956 farce “La Traversee de Paris” (A Pig Across Paris) showing for one week in glorious restored print at Film Forum Al Pacino and Gene...
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“It could snap at any moment”: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI’S LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
© 2013 by James Clark With regard to Searching for Sugar Man, quixotic and heart-warming factors tend to divert attention from a significant area of its production. Though a resident and citizen of...
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Masters of Horror #7 – Paul Leni
by Jaime Grijalba. File #7 – Paul Leni Hey, look! Another director that is familiar in the ranks of Wonders in the Dark, at least, I think he is. I wanted to start right on topic just to sway a little...
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Bakumatsu Taiyoden – 1957, Yuzo Kawashima
by Allan Fish (Japan 1957 110m) DVD2 Aka. The Sun Legend of the End of the Tokugawa Era I’d kill all the crows in the world p Takeshi Yamamoto d Yuzo Kawashima w Keiichi Tanaka, Shohei Imamura,...
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Future Imperfect (But Good Enough): M. Night Shyamalan’s “After Earth”
By Bob Clark Classic science-fiction has done a great job of looking forward into the future and predicting many of the major and minor concerns that we find as we move forward in time ourselves–...
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1993 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Schindler’s List, US (10 votes) Best Director Steven Spielberg, Schindler’s List (9 votes) Best Actor Anthony Hopkins, The Remains of the Day (9 votes) Best Actress Juliette...
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Frances Ha; The Kings of Summer and Love is All You Need on Monday Morning...
Greta Gerwig gives an irresistible performance in the endearing comic fable “Frances Ha” while co-writing the humanist script with director Noah Baumbach, who finest film this is. by Sam Juliano Summer...
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La Chinoise – 1967, Jean-Luc Godard
by Allan Fish the first in a series of pieces on the masterpieces of eternal enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard. (France 1967 96m) DVD1/2 Il faut confronter les idées vagues avec ses images claires d/w...
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