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The Spectacular Now, The Fly (1958), The Fly (1986), Demon Seed and The Wire...
Screen capture from critically-praised coming-of-age film “The Spectacular Now” by Sam Juliano London and Kendal are now memories, and the summer is on it’s death throes, with today’s Labor Day holiday...
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Placido, 1961 Luis Garcia Berlanga
by Allan Fish (Spain 1961 87m) DVD2 (Spain only, no English subs) Seat a poor man at your table p Alfredo Matas d Luis Garcia Berlanga w Luis Garcia Berlanga, Rafael Azcona, José Luis Colina,...
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“Don’t spend it all in one place”: NICOLAS REFN’S ONLY GOD FORGIVES
© 2013 by James Clark Our title phrase comes to the heart of this, generally dismissed as heartless, film from 2013. It does so in two ways, which can go a considerable distance toward disarming the...
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Pharaoh 1966, Jerzy Kawalerowicz
by Allan Fish (Poland 1966 183m) DVD2 Aka. Faraon Sovereign of the two worlds p Ludwik Hager d Jerzy Kawalerowicz w Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Tadeusz Konwicki novel Boleslaw Prus ph Jerzy Wojcik...
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2005 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The New World, US (9 votes) Best Director Terrence Malick, The New World (11 votes) Best Actor Heath Ledger, Brokeback Mountain (8 votes) Best Actress Juliette Binoche,...
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Short Term 12, The Three Worlds of Gulliver and The Wire Season 4 on Monday...
Screen cap from extraordinary “Short Term 12,” a strong contender for film of the year honors by Sam Juliano The Western Countdown will officially commence on Monday, September 30, but the two weeks...
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Harvest 1937, Marcel Pagnol
by Allan Fish (France 1937 127m) not on DVD Aka. Regain And Then There Were None… d/w Marcel Pagnol novel Jean Giono ph Willy Faktorovich ed Jeannette Ginestet, Suzanne de Troeye m Arthur...
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Horse Thief 1986, Tian Zhuangzhuang
by Allan Fish (China 1986 88m) not on DVD Aka. Dao ma zei Carrion for the vultures are we… p Wu Tiang-Ming d Tian Zhuangzhuang w Zhang Rui ph Hou Yong, Zhao Fei ed Li Jingzhong m Qu...
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2006 – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supp...
by Allan Fish Best Picture The Lives of Others, Germany (5 votes) Best Director Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain (3 votes) Best Actor Ulrich Mühe, The Lives of Others (8 votes) (This may be our first...
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Trip to Blighty August 2013
As promised, here’s the video expertly edited by Sam’s daughter Melanie of the trip in London, Kendal, Liverpool et al. I’m trying to persuade her to do a director’s cut down the line. But this is...
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Stones, Damn Stones and Site Statistics on Monday Morning Diary (16 September)
by Allan Fish As Ralph Fiennes once said in Schindler’s List; “today is history.” After several years of devoted red-carpeting beyond the call of anyone’s duty, this weekend marks the first time...
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Southcliffe 2013, Sean Durkin
by Allan Fish (UK 2013 187m) DVD1/2 Not that sort of place p Derrin Schlesinger, Peter Carlton d Sean Durkin w Tony Grisoni ph Mátyás Erdély ed Daniel Greenway art Tom Bowyer Sean Harris...
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“It’s very important that you know what I did” KIM NGUYEN’S ‘REBELLE’ (WAR...
© 2013 by James Clark Kim Nguyen’s War Witch (2012) may be too easy to love and too hard to understand. That concern is not meant as a dismissal, but instead as part and parcel of a brilliant and...
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Top of the Lake 2013, Jane Campion
by Allan Fish (Australia/UK 2013 342m) DVD1/2 Operation Wildbird p Philippa Campbell d Jane Campion, Garth Davis w Jane Campion, Gerard Lee ph Adam Arkapaw ed Scott Gray, Alexandre de...
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2007 – Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supp Actor, Supp Actress,...
by Allan Fish Best Picture There Will Be Blood, US (4 votes) Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood (7 votes) Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood (16 votes) Best Actress...
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David Copperfield, Blue Caprice, Enough Said, The Wire Season 5 and Allan’s...
W.C. Fields and Freddie Bartholemew as Micawber and young David in 1935 Hollywood masterpiece “David Copperfield” based on Dickens and directed by George Cukor, shown on Sunday as part of ‘Film Forum...
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Obscure Westerns: L’ira di Dio (1968)
by Jaime Grijalba. How’s everyone doing? Are you liking the Western Countdown? Are you liking the Obscure Westerns? Please, tell me in the comments if this is a worthwhile endeavour that I put myself...
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Mike on Max Ophuls’ Letter from an Unknown Woman
by Mike Norton In early twentieth century Vienna, a washed up concert pianist, Stefan Brand (Louis Jordan), emerges from the rain soaked streets into his apartment, after confirming a duel the next...
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Short Trip to Boston, Salem and Burlington, Massachusetts on Monday Morning...
The gang on Yawkey Way alongside Fenway Park in Boston At the Salem Witch Trials Memorial in Salem by Sam Juliano Salem witch sites, ecstatic Red Sox fans and a delightful stroll through the popular...
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20. Ride Lonesome
By Peter Lenihan “More an essentialist than a minimalist” was how critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once described Robert Bresson, a somewhat elusive distinction that might help us make sense of Budd...
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