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Macario – 1960, Roberto Gavaldón
by Allan Fish (Mexico 1960 91m) not on DVD When we’re born we’re carrying our death p Armando Orive Alba d Roberto Gavaldón w Emilio Carballido, Roberto Gavaldón story “The Third Guest” by...
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Film Preservation Blogathon Moves Over to ‘This Island Rod’ today!
The Film Preservation blogathon is in full throttle, and after two gloriously successful days at Ferdy on Films has moved over to Roderick Heath’s This Island Rod for today and tomorrow. Wonders in...
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Re-Booting ‘Metropolis’ for Film Preservation Blogathon
by Allan Fish (Germany 1927/2010 150m) DVD1/2 I’ve just met two girls named Maria p Erich Pommer d Fritz Lang w Thea Von Harbou ph Karl Freund, Günther Rittau m Gottfried Huppertz art Otto...
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France/Tour/Detour/Deux/Enfants – 1977 TV, Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Nieville
by Allan Fish (France-TV 1977 312m) not on DVD Girl, boy, girl, boy… p Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville d/w Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville ph Pierre Binggeli, William Lubtchansky,...
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Film Preservation Blogathon Review: Spielberg’s ‘A.I. Artificial Intelligence’
by Sam Juliano The idea behind A.I. was originally conceived by Stanley Kubrick, who subsequently entrusted the proposed project to Steven Spielberg. When Kubrick died suddenly in 1999, his widow...
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Film Preservation Blogathon: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
by Sam Juliano One of the crowning glories of 50’s science-fiction, Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers, based on a short story by Jack Finney, still enthralls both genre buffs and those...
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Message to any and all bloggers planning to submit a post in the Film...
The Film Preservation Blogathon moves to Wonders in the Dark in almost seven (7) hours at 12:00 midnight and will continue for the entire duration of Sunday, May 17th. Submissions can be sent to me...
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Ikarie XB-1 – 1963, Jindrich Polak
by Allan Fish (Czechoslovakia 1963 81m) DVD1/2 Aka. Voyage to the End of the Universe Earth is gone p Rudolf Wolf d Jindrich Polák w Jindrich Polák, Pavel Jurácek novel “The Magellanic Cloud”...
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Film Preservation Blogathon: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
© 2015 by James Clark Although this film benefits handsomely from the various high-definition enhancements of recent years, which sustain an imprecise aura of fertile vitality in actions...
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Film Preservation Blogathon: Attack of the Clones
By Bob Clark In Milan Kundera’s 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the respected surgeon Tomas finds himself unable to find work after returning to Soviet-occupied Prague, thanks to his...
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Film Preservation Blogathon: Duel of the Fates
(1) ANH: Obi-Wan vs. Vader (2) ESB: Luke vs. Vader (3) ROTJ: Palpatine (4) TPM: Obi-Wan vs. Maul By Bob Clark “Have you ever encountered a Jedi Knight before, sir?”—this question is asked very early on...
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Film Preservation Blogathon anchors at Wonders in the Dark
by Sam Juliano For the first time ever, the much admired and successful Film Preservation Blogathon -the brainchild of Ferdy-on-Film’s Marilyn Ferdinand- has set up camp here at Wonders in the Dark, a...
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For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon winds down…..but we...
For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon is nearing its five day conclusion, but here at Wonders in the Dark – final day host site, we still think there is plenty of time to both make your...
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The Film Preservation Blogathon, The Childhood Films Countdown, A Night of...
by Sam Juliano For the Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon has officially concluded, but latecomers are more than welcome to avail themselves of both the donation links under every...
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Marilyn Ferdinand Announces Film Preservation Blogathon Results!
We’ve got the totals and the winners of the prizes. We raised $1,700. The prize winners are as follows: Choice of Betty Jo Tucker’s print book CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT or Kindle version of her...
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Picture Book Review: Wendell Minor’s ‘Daylight Starlight Wildlife’
by Sam Juliano Though much of his picture book output was produced in collaboration with some exceedingly high profile award winning authors, Wendell Minor sometimes traversed his outdoor habitats...
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Ghatashraddha – 1977, Girish Kasaravalli
by Allan Fish (India 1977 108m) DVD0 (India only) Aka. The Ritual Outcast of the agrahara p Sadananda Suvarna d Girish Kasaravalli w Girish Kasaravalli, K.V.Sabanna novel Ananthamurthy U.R. ph...
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Woman in Gold, Mad Max, Childhood Films Countdown and CPHS Spring Concert on...
Screen cap from underrated WOMAN IN GOLD with Helen Mirren by Sam Juliano Memorial Day 2015. Barbecues, backyard swimming pools and relaxation are on most of the personal itineraries, as the weather...
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MICHAEL MANN’S ‘THIEF’“Every day’s a surprise. It’s real fuckin’ weird out...
© 2015 by James Clark Each film of Michael Mann is arrestingly sown with overtures bearing close resemblance to those salient in many of his cinematic inventions. This singularity has led more...
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Hlemmur – 2002, Olafur Sveinsson
by Allan Fish (Iceland 2002 86m) not on DVD Aka. Last Stop Terminus p Gerd Haag d/w Olafur Sveinsson ph Halldór Gunnarsson ed Olaf de Fleur Johannesson m Sigur Rós Childhood memories are...
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