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6. Unforgiven
by Dennis Polifroni Over the years I have had many different jobs. Both before and after college I had worked in a restaurant as the head chef, overlooking assistant cooks, waiters and bus-boys. I...
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Frozen, Don Jon and Western Countdown conclusion on Monday Morning Diary...
New Disney animated feature “Frozen” by Sam Juliano With everyone getting their fill of turkey, trimmings and pumpkin pie the focus has now shifted to home decorations and shopping malls for the...
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5. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
by Dean Treadway Lynn and Buddy, my parents, somehow always knew I was going to be a movie nut. That’s the only explanation I can arrive at for them taking me to see so many kid-unfriendly movies at...
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4. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by Shubhajit Lahiri John Ford reveled in the making of Westerns, for what is The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence if not an expression of his love affair with the genre? With its overarching themes of...
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3. Once Upon A Time in the West
by Sam Juliano The following is the full content of a term paper handed in to a Professor Renaldo Ovest Spaghetti for a graduate course in Italian Cinema offered during the fall semester of 2007 at...
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2. Rio Bravo
by Anubhav Bist The little moments. If you were to ask me what makes Howard Hawk’s 1959 western so special, thats what I would say. The little moments. For me, this could be something as quick as...
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1. The Searchers
By Peter Lenihan Of all the very recognizable titles (think Rules of the Game, Tokyo Story, Seven Samurai, Vertigo, Citizen Kane) that appear on S&S lists decade in and decade out, Ford’s film is...
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Mike on ‘Bad Lieutenant’
by Mike Norton It’s 1992, and New York City is bleeding. The streets are exhausted from having fought a war on drugs a decade earlier, and homicide rates, which peaked at the beginning of the decade,...
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La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) Inside Llewyn Davis, Rutgers Classical...
Screen cap from Paulo Sorrentino’s masterful Italian film “La Grande Bellazza” (The Great Beauty) by Sam Juliano The western countdown has concluded after a ten-week roll out here at Wonders in the...
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Greatest ‘Romantic’ Films of All-Time Countdown will launch in April
by Sam Juliano The enthusiastically greeted Greatest Romantic Films of All-Time countdown is now set to commence in April of 2014, sometime around mid-month. The four months until that launching will...
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Banka – 1957, Heinosuke Gosho
by Allan Fish (Japan 1957 117m) not on DVD Pictures from Angkor p Jiro Kaga, Yoshishige Uchiyama d Heinosuke Gosho w Toshio Yasumi novel Yasuko Harada ph Junichi Segawa m Yasushi Akatagawa...
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“Life has its tricks…” JACQUES DEMY’S BAY OF ANGELS (LA BAIE DES ANGES)
© 2013 by James Clark For all the fertility of his endeavors, it must, I think, be acknowledged that the career of Jacques Demy traces a quite relentless decline from initial efforts of breathtaking...
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Romantic Polling ‘Suggestions’
Screen cap from 1996′s ‘Beautiful Thing,’ a British gay love story Capture from 1934 Jean Vigo masterpiece ‘L’Atalante’ by Sam Juliano I have been getting many e mails about the latest venture at WitD,...
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Peter O’Toole dies at 81
by Sam Juliano One of the most celebrated of screen legends the actor Peter O’Toole passed away early Sunday at age 81. Rightly and primarily best known for his lead role in David Lean’s Lawrence of...
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Now, Joan Fontaine passes at age 96
Fontaine with Judith Anderson in Hitchcock’s 1940 ‘Rebecca’ by Sam Juliano Just hours after the world learned of the passing of film icon Peter O’Toole at age 81, yet another legend has expired. One...
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Opera ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met, Saving Mr. Banks, The Hobbit Part 2,...
Stage capture of Metropolitan opera production of Richard Strauss’ magnificent ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson as Walt Disney and P.L. Travers in “Saving Mr. Banks” by Sam Juliano The...
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Until We Meet Again – 1950, Tadashi Imai
by Allan Fish (Japan 1950 110m) not on DVD Aka. Mata au hi made If only I had wings… p Shizuo Sakagami d Tadashi Imai w Toshio Yasumi, Yoko Mizuki ph Shunichiro Nakao m Masao Oki art...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Knock Knock: My Dad’s Dream For Me (Brian Collier,...
by Sam Juliano Note: This is the first in what will be an ongoing series on the picture books that are projected to be in contention for the American Library Association’s annual Caldecott Medal for...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Mr. Tiger Goes Wild (Peter Brown)
by Sam Juliano If ever a picture book was tailor-made to win a Caldecott Medal, Peter Brown’s Mr. Tiger Goes Wild pushes all the right buttons. First off, the esteemed author-illustrator won a...
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Christmas, American Hustle and Her on Monday Morning Diary (December 23)
by Sam Juliano Warmer temperatures have oddly taken hold on the east coast as Christmas Day 2013 approaches. As always the site would like to thank the incomparable Dee Dee for keeping the holiday...
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