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1928 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor and Actress – RESULTS
by Allan Fish Straight to it as usual. Pretty much landslides in most categories. Best Picture La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, France (9 votes) Best Director Carl Th. Dreyer, La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (9...
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La Fin du Jour – 1939, Julien Duvivier
by Allan Fish (France 1939 105m) not on DVD Dear Anemone III p Julien Duvivier d Julien Duvivier w Charles Spaak, Julien Duvivier ph Christian Matras, Alex Joffre, Armand Thirard ed Marthe...
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8 Wellmans, In Darkness and Boy on Monday Morning Diary (March 5)
by Sam Juliano Reporting on the soccer scene, Maurizio Roca relates: “With Clint Dempsey’s goal in the 55th minute of this past Wednesday’s friendly against Italy, the United States emerged victorious...
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Briton Stephen Russell-Gebbett, creative writer par excellence
Note: This is the twelfth entry in an ongoing series that honors creative bloggers who have really made a difference, raising the bar for quality and productivity on the cultural front. by Sam Juliano...
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Finding Ford / The Quiet Man (1952)
By Peter Lenihan Finding Ford is a biweekly series on the films of John Ford. The next installment will be on The Iron Horse. There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that as he was editing The Quiet Man,...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Since I’ve been away the past few weeks attempting to both reenergize myself within this Series and finish everything that’s been put towards me from a work standpoint I baited my time knowing...
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Traité de bave et d’éternité – 1951, Isidore Isou
by Allan Fish (France 1951 126m) DVD1/2 Aka. On Venom and Eternity The manifesto of discrepant cinema p Marc’o, Leon Vickman d/w Isidore Isou ph Nat Saufer ed Suzanne Cabon m Daniel Guarrigue...
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IN MEMORIAM – The Great White Silence – 1924, Herbert J Ponting
by Allan Fish Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, leader of the doomed team who tried to be first to the South Pole in 1912. In tribute, my piece on Herbert...
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman – 1947, Yasujiro Ozu
by Allan Fish (Japan 1947 74m) DVD1/2 Aka. Nagaya Shinshiroku Fanning the futon d Yasujiro Ozu w Tadao Ikeda, Yasujiro Ozu ph Yuharu Atsuta ed Yoshi Sugihara m Ichiro Saito art Tatsuo Hamada...
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When the Fall is All That’s Left: Jodorowsky and Moebius’ “The Incal”
By Bob Clark In the annals of fabled failed film projects, few offer as tantalizing a glimpse into the imagined graces of what might’ve been than that of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank...
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1932 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, S.Actor, S.Actress –...
by Allan Fish as usual, straight to it… Best Picture Trouble in Paradise, US (5 votes) Best Director Carl Th.Dreyer, Vampyr & Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (4 votes each, TIE) Best Short The...
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Bully, Children of Paradise, Nanni Moretti Film...
by Sam Juliano OVER the land is April, Over my heart a rose; Over the high, brown mountain The sound of singing goes. Say, love, do you hear me, Hear my sonnets ring? Over the high, brown mountain,...
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Jik zin – 2012, Dante Lam ***1/2
by Jaime Grijalba. a.k.a. The Viral Factor (Hong Kong/China, 122 min.) Dante Lam, at this year, is some kind of institution for those who follow the action/thriller scene of Hong Kong, either based on...
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The Wild Wild Rose – 1960, Wang Tian-lin
by Allan Fish (Hong Kong 1960 128m) DVD3 Aka. Ye mei gui zhi lian Love is just an ordinary thing p Robert Chung d Wang Tian-lin w Quin Yifu ph Ming Huang ed Wang Zhaoxi m Min Yao, Ryoichi...
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Finding Ford / Wagon Master (1950)
By Peter Lenihan The next installment will be on Steamboat ‘Round the Bend. A precredit prelude and overlapping images—so that it seems to be behind the wanted poster that Shiloh Clegg guns down a bank...
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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British...
by Jamie Like every band we’ve covered this far in the glam rock umbrella, today’s entry has two slightly different careers (at least) contained within their overall oeuvre and released several...
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The Devil – 1972, Andrzej Zulawski
by Allan Fish (Poland 1972 119m) DVD1 Aka. Diabel For the clearing… p Andrzej Zulawski d/w Andrzej Zulawski ph Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Maciej Kijowski ed Krzysztof Oziecki m Andrzej Korzynski...
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We’re Depressed: Mark Beyer’s “Amy and Jordan” and Gregg Araki’s “The Doom...
By Bob Clark There are certain names that are so wholly identified with their characters and personae from fiction that once raised in another work, they carry with them a whole range of ideas, themes...
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1933 – Best Picture, Director, Short, Actor, Actress, S.Actor, S.Actress –...
by Allan Fish Again, straight to it, ladies and germs… Best Picture King Kong, US (5 votes) Best Director Jean Vigo, Zero de Conduite (5 votes) Best Short The Fatal Glass of Beer, US, Clyde Bruckman (5...
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The Long Day Closes, Ruggles of Red Gap, Titanic, The Island President,...
by Sam Juliano The Easter bunny has come and gone, but chocolate goodies and the appearance of some requested gifts offer proof for his annual spring visit. Those who are lucky will enjoy a one-week...
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