1923 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor & Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish As per the norm, straight to the results… Best Picture Our Hospitality, US (5 votes) Best Director Buster Keaton, Ernest G.Blystone, Our Hospitality (3 votes) Best Short Paris qui...
View ArticleDeclaration of War, The Grey, Show People(1928), A Man Escaped and Beauty and...
by Sam Juliano While at least one person with a long Wonders in the Dark association will be rooting his head off for the New England Patriots in next week’s Super Bowl contest, it does appear that...
View ArticleI Am Keiko – 1997 – Sion Sono
by Stephen Russell-Gebbett (Japan 1997, 61min – aka It’s Keiko; Keiko Desu Kedo) not available on DVD Director, Writer Sion Sono Starring Keiko Suzuki Keiko Suzuki is a 21 year-old girl. Her father...
View ArticleHobson’s Choice – 1953, David Lean
by Allan Fish (UK 1953 107m) DVD1/2 Be back in half an hour p Norman Spencer d David Lean w Norman Spencer, Wynyard Browne, David Lean play Harold Brighouse ph Jack Hildyard ed Peter Taylor...
View Article“…The boat you always wanted…”: David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’
Copyright © 2012 by James Clark As with The Artist, in its financially dangerous format of an obsolete mode of cinematic expression, A Dangerous Method (another stunning tour de force from 2011)...
View ArticleGetting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Dealing with the grouping as grand and daunting as ‘Pop Kings’ would naturally lead us to some real heavyweights and the past few weeks more then bare witness; there was already Ray Davies,...
View ArticleElgar – 1962, Ken Russell
by Allan Fish (UK 1962 60m) DVD1/2 Aka. Elgar – Portrait of a Composer We walk like ghosts p Humphrey Burton d Ken Russell w Ken Russell, Huw Wheldon ph Kenneth Higgins ed Alan Tyrer m...
View ArticleRecycling the Force: Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Clone Wars”
By Bob Clark In the past decade or so, we’ve seen a rise in animation being used to promote feature movie franchises with short works and mini-series being produced between films. Most of the time...
View Article1924 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor & Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish Without further a-do, the results for 1924… Best Picture Greed, US (6 votes) Best Director Erich Von Stroheim, Greed (6 votes) Best Short Ballet Mécanique, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Champion Giants, The Kiss, Pretty Poison, The Innkeepers,...
by Sam Juliano As Lucille and I make preparations to watch the Super Bowl at the Montvale, New Jersey of our good friends Tony and Sara Lucibello, we are hoping the magic strikes for the Giants for the...
View ArticleThe Story of Film – An Odyssey – 2011, Mark Cousins
by Allan Fish (UK 2011 945m) not on DVD It looked like our dreams d/w Mark Cousins ph Mark Cousins ed Timo Longer narrated by Mark Cousins with Sharmila Tagore, Kyoko Kagawa, Lars Von Trier,...
View ArticleA Tale Of Two Birds…Taking a look at the first film based on author Dashiell...
THE 1931 Version Of “THE MALTESE FALCON” Was Screened at Noir City On January 29, 2012 at 1:20pm with a running time Of 80 Minutes…and was also released by Warner Bros. According To Noir City, “No, not...
View ArticleFinding Ford / The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
By Peter Lenihan A quick note: the original cut of The Sun Shines Bright was 100 minutes. The bigwigs at Republic Pictures cut it by ten, and I’ve only seen the ninety minute version. I suspect the...
View ArticleGetting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie ‘I Know it’s Over’, the third track on the Smiths’ seminal 1986 release The Queen Is Dead, is one of rock musics great singular blasts of expression, one of supreme evocative beauty, lyrical...
View ArticleSeries I…Homage To Dash- FilmGris-No-FilmNoir-Dark-Oui……
By DeeDee I don’t know you I have held you, kissed you, slept with you A crazy love For all the wrong reasons Until down a dark alley a bullet to the heart (Tony D’Ambra) [Editor's note: In order to...
View ArticleEngland, My England – 1995 TV, Tony Palmer
by Allan Fish (UK 1995 152m) DVD1/2 A nation of babbling backseat cab drivers p Mike Bluett d Tony Palmer w John Osborne, Charles Wood ph Nic Knowland m Henry Purcell md John Eliot Gardiner...
View ArticleNotes on “The Duel of the Fates”
By Bob Clark “Have you ever encountered a Jedi Knight before, sir?”—this question is asked very early on in The Phantom Menace, as a pair of the seasoned warriors, “guardians of peace and justice in...
View Article1925 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor and Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish As usual, straight to it, ladies and germs. Best Picture The Gold Rush, US (7 votes) Best Director Sergei M.Eisenstein, The Battleship Potemkin (9 votes) Best Short The Imaginary Voyage,...
View ArticleShakespeare’s ‘Richard III’ at BAM with Kevin Spacey, The Turin Horse, The...
by Sam Juliano I don’t want to jinx anything, but I’ll modestly acknowledge the unseasonably mild weather we’ve been having in the Northeast as we approach mid-February and a hint of the Spring. The...
View ArticleSherlock 2010- TV – An Updated Reboot to Cherish
by Allan Fish (UK 2010- 532m) DVD1/2 I – O – U… p Sue Vertue, Rebecca Eaton, Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat d Paul McGuigan, Euros Lyn created by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss w Steven Moffat, Mark...
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