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Caldecott Medal Contender: Emma and Julia Love Ballet
by Sam Juliano A painstaking performing art that requires years of training, unwavering application and physical stamina, ballet is a highly technical form of dance that has over the years taken on...
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14. Planet of the Apes (1968)
by Robert Hornak There are two basic gears in Planet of the Apes: adventure and allegory, and it’s stuck fast in both from start to finish. First, its bullet-straight story rarely lets up. Charlton...
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13. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
by Aaron West 2004. Written by Charlie Kaufman. Directed by Michel Gondry It seems like yesterday when I first read the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind script. Charlie Kaufman was the “it”...
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(12) Star Wars, Toni Erdmann and the Death of Cinema: 2016 Edition
By Bob Clark It’s time for my last installment in the Wonders in the Dark Sci Fi countdown, George Lucas’ seminal 1977 film, Star Wars. Joining me for the discussion is Joel Bocko of Lost in the...
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11. Alien (1979)
. By Roderick Heath . I can imagine opening a newspaper in 1979 and glancing at a review of Alien with its plot recounted in dry ink lines, or perhaps at a poster and beholding the infamous tagline,...
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10. World on a Wire (1973)
by Bob Clark There’s an interior-decorating philosophy that espouses the idea of using mirrors to make a small room look bigger. I don’t know if it’s related to fung shui, or perhaps just a very basic...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: This is Not a Picture Book
by Sam Juliano There can be nothing more disconcerting to a young child than finding out that their latest book find is well beyond their sphere of negotiation. The exasperated yellow duckling with...
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9. Frankenstein (1931)
by Robert Hornak Mary Shelley’s original novel was born in the long wake of the western world’s great unshackling from regal tyranny. The American and French Revolutions were still visible in the rear...
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8. La Jetée (1962) directed by Chris Marker
By Duane Porter Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance. By their scars. — Chris Marker, La Jetée . Writer, editor, photographer, filmmaker,...
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7. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
by Allan Fish (UK 1971 137m) DVD1/2 A bit of the old ultraviolence p Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Williams d/w Stanley Kubrick novel Anthony Burgess ph John Alcott ed Bill Butler m Walter...
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6. Solaris (1972)
. By Roderick Heath . An implicit faith in most science fiction is encoded in that name. It is the art of science, the act of understanding, comprehending, grappling with the real. But also an act of...
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5. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
by John Greco An allegory on the infiltration of communism in America? A metaphor for people turning a blind eye to the McCarthyism hysteria that was sweeping the country in the early 1950’s? An...
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4. Blade Runner (1982)
By J.D. Lafrance “It’s just like everything that is awful about the city, but at the same time, everything that is fascinating about it…and this, in many ways, is a futurist projection—it’s not so...
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Quand on a 17 ANS; Eight Days a Week; Birth of a Nation and Captain Fantastic...
Andre Techine’s quietly powerful gay-themed drama “Quand on a 17 ANS” is his best film since “Wild Reeds” in 1994 and a strong contender for the Best Film of 2016. by Sam Juliano Last week’s miss for...
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3. Stalker (1979)
by Lee Price In Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), there’s the ordinary world where the Stalker lives with his wife and daughter, there’s a border area patrolled by the military, there’s a sealed-off...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: They All Saw A Cat
by Sam Juliano You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” -Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird In the...
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2. Metropolis (1926)
. By Roderick Heath . The title resolves amidst intersecting geometries that coalesce and create a cityscape, ranged with neo-Babylonian techno-ziggurats: Metropolis, instantly a statement worthy of...
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1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
By Dean Treadway Well, we’re finally here. And this conclusion, with Stanley Kubrick’s monumental film landing at #1, should come as no surprise to anyone. As for no doubt many others, 2001: A Space...
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Jim Jarmusch’s NIGHT ON EARTH “Boy it sure gets dark fast in winter, doesn’t...
© 2016 by James Clark The films of Jim Jarmusch tend to entail bemusingly limited figures harboring what they believe to be a passport to the fabulous. Many of the interactions pertain to...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Fearless Flyer: Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
by Sam Juliano The 2014 picture book Draw! by Raul Colon is one of my all-time favorites. The sumptuous safari expedition book landed on the New York Times Top Ten list and won praise from virtually...
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