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On Theaters: Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
by Jaime Grijalba. Much Ado About Nothing (2012, Joss Whedon) Seen at Village Caballito, Buenos Aires, Argentina. How do you follow up an act like the one performed in the Marvel produced film ‘The...
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Passion – 1982, Jean-Luc Godard
by Allan Fish continuing the Godard mini-series (France 1982 88m) DVD1/2 Looking for real light p Catherine Lapoujade, Armand Babault, Martine Marignac d Jean-Luc Godard w Jean-Luc Godard,...
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1994 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Sátántángó, Hungary (8 votes) Best Director Krzysztof Kieslowski, Three Colours: Red (7 votes) Best Actor Johnny Depp, Ed Wood (9 votes) Best Actress Irène Jacob, Three...
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Mozart’s The Magic Flute; Wish You Were Here; HBO’s Behind the Candelabra and...
Kenneth Branagh’s extraordinary opera film based on Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ by Sam Juliano June continues, leaving behind some torrential rains and some seasonal temperatures. Graduations, proms...
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Sauve qui peut…– 1980, Jean-Luc Godard
by Allan Fish continuing with the Godard series (France 1980 87m) DVD2 Aka. Every Man for Himself; Slow Motion Cinéma et video d Jean-Luc Godard w Anne-Marie Mieville, Jean-Luc Godard ph Renato...
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“There’s something missing…”: TERRENCE MALICK’S TO THE WONDER
© 2013 by James Clark It’s been a long time since Terrence Malick strove, as an academic researcher, to bring focus to the bewildering cacophony of Heideggerian phenomenological insights and...
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Alphaville – 1965, Jean-Luc Godard
by Allan Fish (France 1965 98m) DVD1/2 Aka. Alphaville, une Etrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution α60 p André Michelin d/w Jean-Luc Godard ph Raoul Coutard ed Agnes Guillemot m Paul Mizraki,...
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Anthology Heaven: Thriller’s “The Weird Tailor”
by Sam Juliano Note: This is the first in a new series that will be focusing on individual episodes of classic American anthology television series of the late 50′s through the early 70′s. The...
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1995 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture Toy Story, US (7 votes) Best Director John Lasseter, Toy Story (4 votes) Best Actor Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking (6 votes) Best Actress Julianne Moore, Safe (7 votes) Best...
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Rapture 1965, John Guillermin
by Allan Fish (USA/France 1965 104m) DVD1 (Blu Ray only) I, scarecrow p Christian Ferry d John Guillermin w Stanley Mann novel Phyllis Hastings ph Marcel Grignon ed Max Benedict m Georges...
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Forsaken 70′s Cinema: Peter H. Stone’s “1776″ Based on Broadway Show
by Sam Juliano Note: This review, first published at WitD on July 5, 2009 is re-printed today to honor and acknowledge tomorrow’s 4th of July holiday stateside. Back in 1972, upon the release of the...
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On Theaters: Exit Elena (2012)
by Jaime Grijalba. Exit Elena (2012, Nathan Silver) Seen through a screener provided by the director. First of all, to all the people in the United States, may you have a happy 4th of July, and don’t...
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Van Gogh 1991, Maurice Pialat
by Allan Fish (France 1991 159m) DVD1 Study of the artist as a…man d/w Maurice Pialat ph Gilles Henry, Jacques Loiseleux, Emmanuel Machuel ed Hélène Viard, Yann Dedet, Nathalie Hubert m Jacques...
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Anthology Heaven: Thriller’s ‘The Premature Burial’
by Sam Juliano The boundaries which separate life and death are shadowy and vague. Who is to say where exactly the one ends and the other begins? In certain mysterious maladies all functions of...
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1998 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish the end is in sight… Best Picture The Thin Red Line, US (11 votes) Best Director Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line (11 votes) Best Actor Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski (11 votes) Best...
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I’m So Excited, Despicable Me 2 and Rosemary’s Baby on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano Sweltering heat. Stern weather advisories. And a time to add a new culinary trick to those tiring of using the backyard grill: frying eggs on the sidewalk. Those residing in the NYC...
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Through the Olive Trees 1994, Abbas Kiarostami
by Allan Fish (Iran 1994 104m) not on DVD Aka. Zire darakhatan zeyton 25 or 65? p Abbas Kiarostami d/w/ed Abbas Kiarostami ph Hossein Jafarian, Farhad Saba Mohamad Ali Keshavarz (the director),...
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“Didn’t exactly set the world on fire, did you Jackie?” QUENTIN TARANTINO’S...
© 2013 by James Clark I’ve been paying attention to films which, in various ways—seismic narrative, high Mach numbers for optics and sonics—give an accounting for a world eluding general detection....
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On Theaters: V/H/S/2 (2013)
by Jaime Grijalba. V/H/S/2 (2013, Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingard) First of all: Rex Reed is wrong. Second thing: when is he ever...
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Dark Passage 1947, Delmer Daves
by Allan Fish (USA 1947 106m) DVD1/2 Hold Your Breath and Cross Your Fingers p Jerry Wald d Delmer Daves w Delmer Daves novel David Goodis ph Sid Hickox ed David Weisbart m Franz Waxman...
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