Ida – 2013, Pawel Pawlikowski
by Allan Fish Ida (Poland 2013 80m) DVD2 (Poland only) Travels With My Aunt p Piotr Dzieciol, Eva Puszczynska, Eric Abraham d Pawel Pawlikowski w Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Pawel Pawlikowski ph...
View ArticleI am Twenty – 1965, Marlen Khutsiyev
by Allan Fish (USSR 1965 189m) DVD0 (Russia only) Aka. Mne dvadtsat let Stand up, damned of the earth! p Viktor Freilich d Marlen Khutsiyev w Gennadi Shpalikov, Marlen Khutsiyev ph Margarita...
View ArticleTribeca Madness on Monday Morning Diary (April 21)
Screen grab from outstanding Swedish film ‘Broken Hill Blues’ screened at Tribeca Film Festival by Sam Juliano Note: I trust all celebrating Easter Sunday had a great day! Thanks as always to Dee...
View ArticleJourney’s End – 1930, James Whale
by Allan Fish (UK/USA 1930 120m) not on DVD Of cabbages and kings, and cockroaches on whisky p George Pearson d James Whale w Joseph Moncure March, Gareth Gundrey play R.C.Sheriff ph Benjamin...
View ArticleHot Winds – 1973, M.S.Sathyu
by Allan Fish (India 1973 135m) not on DVD Aka. Garam Hava Should I stay or should I go? p Abu Siwani, Ishan Arya, M.S.Sathyu d M.S.Sathyu w Kaifi Azmi, Shama Zaidi ph Ishan Arya ed...
View Article‘Keep On Keepin On’ and ‘Chef’ win Heinecken Audience Awards at Tribeca
by Sam Juliano After Lucille and I watched the emotionally enthralling documentary Keep on Keepin On at the Bow Tie Cinemas on Friday night we both agreed that we had seen the best film of the Tribeca...
View ArticleTribeca Film Festival 2014 Bonanza on Monday Morning Diary (April 28)
Masterful Italian drama ‘Human Capital’ is one of the very best feature films of Tribeca Film Festival. Young Samuel Lange in exceptional Venuzuelan film ‘Bad Hair’ screened at Tribeca Film Festival....
View ArticlePIER PAOLO PASOLINI’S MAMMA ROMA “When I sing, I sing with joy!”
© 2014 by James Clark It’s a wedding reception out in the sticks (somewhat like that wedding party in Fellini’s La Strada). But we notice its far heavier acidic content, as compared with the...
View ArticleMontclair Film Festival and Rutgers Symphony Band Concert on Monday Morning...
by Sam Juliano Mid 70′s degree weather and one sound drenching have ushered in May with at least a parting salute to April in the long-anticipated weather transition in the northeast and midwest....
View ArticleThe Top Ten Films of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival
Prodigy Justin Kauflin, 91 year-old jazz legend Clark Terry and “Keep on Keepin On” director Alan Hicks pose at Tribeca Film Festival press conference. by Sam Juliano You know the routine. Every ‘ten...
View ArticleIda – 2013, Pawel Pawlikowski
by Allan Fish Ida (Poland 2013 80m) DVD2 (Poland only) Travels With My Aunt p Piotr Dzieciol, Eva Puszczynska, Eric Abraham d Pawel Pawlikowski w Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Pawel Pawlikowski ph...
View ArticleAllan Fish, Mother’s Day, Ida and Washington D.C. Trip on Monday Morning...
Allan with the kids on observation deck of the Empire State Building on August 30, 2008. by Sam Juliano I returned home from my annual three-day school trip to Washington D.C. late Friday night to some...
View ArticleFEDERICO FELLINI’S ROMA “If you ask me, this guy was born before he was...
© 2014 by James Clark As the metropolis of a high-impact socioeconomic power, Roma—like New York, London, Tokyo and Paris—has been cinematically scrutinized for the better part of a century....
View ArticleConfirmation, European bliss, Belle, The Immigrant and Romantic Countdown on...
Jillian Juliano after receiving Confirmation outside of Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church Thursday evening. Jillian again outside OLG by Sam Juliano Memorial Day 2014. Always the entrance point...
View Article96. Now Voyager (1942): The art of melodrama
By Tony d’Ambra “THE untold want, by life and land ne’er granted, Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.” -Walt Whitman, The Untold Want, Leaves of Grass (1900) Novelist Olive Higgins...
View Article95. Wings of Desire
by Pedro Silva “For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love without having within their lines an ache or a sigh are not love...
View ArticleFEDERICO FELLINI’S JULIET OF THE SPIRITS “Why can’t you believe we all love...
© 2014 by James Clark In the 1950s, actress Giulietta Masina starred in two films deriving from her husband, Federico Fellini’s, internationally consequential cinematic reflections. In one of...
View Article94. The Wedding March
by Allan Fish (USA 1928 115m) not on DVD No honeymoon p Pat Powers, Jesse Lasky Jnr, Adolph Zukor d Erich Von Stroheim w Harry Carr, Erich Von Stroheim ph Hal Mohr, Ben Reynolds, Ray Rennahan...
View Article93. Once (2006) – Directed by John Carney
Written by Jon Warner Once is one of the defining romantic films of the new millennium, and the most touching elements are the chemistry and song writing skills of the two leads in the film. Glen...
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