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Melanie receiving her ‘Best of the Fest’ Prize from James Gandolfini’s sister Johanna Antonacci on Saturday. Melanie’s film “100 Likes” showing at Festival in Fort Lee....
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Allan Fish Bonanza: Greed (1924)
Note: This is the twenty-eighth entry in the extraordinary Allan Fish Bonanza Encore series, and it considers a silent era landmark. by Allan Fish (USA 1924/1998 141m) not on DVD A dentist’s tale p...
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Review of Terrill Welch Oil Painting; College Staging of “12 Angry Men”;...
Artist Terrill Welch’s magnificent oil painting “Evening Thunderclouds over the Straight of Georgia” (reviewed below) by Sam Juliano Thanksgiving is just a little over a week away as time just zooms...
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Allan Fish Bonanza: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Note: This review of a 70′s masterpiece is the twenty-ninth in the ongoing ‘Allan Fish Bonnaza’ Encore series at WitD. by Allan Fish (UK 1971 137m) DVD1/2 A bit of the old ultraviolence p Stanley...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Firefly July
by Sam Juliano Children’s picture book artist extraordinaire Melissa Sweet has illustrated nearly a hundred books in a prolific career, but the last few years she has come into her own in spectacular...
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Allan Fish Bonanza: The Big Combo (1955)
This review of ‘The Big Combo’ is the thirtieth in the continuing Allan Fish Bonanza Encore series at Wonders in the Dark. by Allan Fish (USA 1955 89m) DVD1/2 (Spain only) First is first and second...
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Force Majeore, Happy Valley, Matt Shephard is a Friend of Mine and The Hunger...
In 1998, 22 year-old Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, and tied to a fence on a Wyoming prairie and left to die because he was gay. His death a week later incited outrage worldwide, and he is now...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: The Iridescence of Birds
by Sam Juliano From the moment one first lays eyes on the ravishing dust jacket cover of Patricia MacLachlan’s wholly sublime The Iridescence of Birds there is a real sense of mission for educators...
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FEDERICO FELLINI’S NIGHTS OF CABIRIA “She musta slipped…”
© 2014 by James Clark The first episode of Nights of Cabiria (1957) is a crime melodrama so offbeat it could almost be science fiction. We see in the middle distance a diminutive woman, in a...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: The Mayflower
by Sam Juliano The story of how the Pilgrims traveled to America on the Mayflower usually commands a full chapter in all middle school history textbooks. It is one of the most celebrated events in...
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Allan Fish Bonanza: Under the Skin
This review, originally published in March of this year, is the thirty-first in the continuing Allan Fish Bonanza Encore series at Wonders in the Dark. by Allan Fish (UK 2013 108m) DVD1/2 The girl who...
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Babadook, The Imitation Game and an encore viewing of Interstellar on Monday...
by Sam Juliano December has arrived without much fanfare, and at least on the east coast with moderate temperatures for this time of the year. This is the time of the year when ten best lists will...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Maple
by Sam Juliano I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Trees as a subject for picture books began to take root in the children’s literature community after a 1956 collaboration between...
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Allan Fish Bonanza: Shooting the Past
by Alan Fish This review, aimed at honoring the star of this year’s ‘Mr. Turner’, is the thirty-second in the continuing Allan Fish Bonanza Encore series at Wonders in the Dark. (UK 1999 182m) DVD1/2...
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Caldecott Metal Contender: The Farmer and the Clown
by Sam Juliano Surely a prime reason why odds makers never set betting lines for the Caldecotts and the Newberys is that they are noted for being notoriously unpredictable, not to mention there being...
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Mr. Turner, Still Alice and ‘Boyhood’ winning critics awards coast-to-coast...
by Sam Juliano Boyhood was awarded Best Picture and Best Director from coast-to-coast critical fraternities in New York, Boston, Los Angeles and New York Online this past week. Richard Linklater’s...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Sequoia
by Sam Juliano If we are to consider what author Tony Johnston asserts in an afterward to her new picture book Sequoia, the towering giants nearing the end of their existence today were rooted in the...
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RUBEN OSTLUND’S FORCE MAJEURE “We need a shared view…”
© 2014 by James Clark Bear with me for a moment, in embarking upon Ruben Ostlund’s mountain of domestic and individual anguish, Force Majeure (2014), by way of Marguerite Duras’ novella, The...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Grandfather Gandhi
by Sam Juliano Depending on what day of the week you ask me, I will have a firm answer to the question of what might be the year’s premiere picture book achievement. As it is I have a few supreme...
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Rutgers Band Concert, Citizen Four and Annie on Monday Morning Diary...
by Sam Juliano It does seem rather hard to believe, but Christmas is just ten days away, and some of us who thought everything would sort itself out are now scurrying to complete preparations. The...
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