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Caldecott Medal Contender: Wake Up!
by Sam Juliano Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o’er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly...
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The Florida Project and A Ghost Story on Monday Morning Diary (October 23)
by Sam Juliano Pumpkin Day is just eight days away and area communities are busy setting the stage with seasonal adornments. Horror film fans too are employing the month with new discoveries and...
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The Town That Dreaded Sundown
By J.D. Lafrance By 1946, World War II had ended and joy and prosperity returned to the United States. However, a dark cloud hung over Texarkana (a city that resides in both Arkansas and Texas) during...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Miguel’s Brave Knight
by Sam Juliano To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go –Joe Darion, Man of LaMancha, 1964 Miguel de...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: This House, Once
by Sam Juliano The last time a picture book featuring a house as its central character connected intimately with the world around it was none other than Virginia Lee Burton’s Caldecott Medal winning...
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The Nickel Ride
By J.D. Lafrance I sometimes wonder while watching a heist film, what happens to the loot from a big score? Where is it stored? The Nickel Ride (1974) answers these questions by focusing on a man in...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: A Different Pond
by Sam Juliano The story commands an emotional heft worthy of Allen Say. The esteemed illustrator, Thi Bui skillfully weaves smaller illustrations within larger ones, and never loses the focus at...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Out of Wonder
by Sam Juliano Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets is a picture book, much as Paul B. Janeczko and Melissa Sweet’s Firefly July of a few years back also begged that categorization (seasonal theme...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Dazzle Ships
by Sam Juliano U boats are sailing once more. -The Producers Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion by Chris Barton and Victo Ngai is an avant garde masterwork. If the American...
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Caldecott Medal Contender: Listen
by Sam Juliano I think the opposite was true. I think he loved America so much that he was particularly offended and disappointed when it strayed, as it so often has, from the noble ideals upon which...
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Caldecott Medal Contenders: The Boy and the Whale; The Ring Bearer; A Perfect...
by Sam Juliano Note: The Caldecott Medal announcements will be broadcast via ALA streaming early Monday morning, February 12th. The forty-first and final full essay, “Listen” by Leda Schubert and...
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Play “Farinelli and the King”, A Fabulous Woman and Caldecott Medal...
by Sam Juliano Four and a half months of picture book madness ends today when the American Library Association announces the annual winners at their mid-Winter meeting in Denver at 10:00 A.M. MT. I...
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Fish Obscuro: Maria do Mar (Jose Leitao de Barros; 1930)
by Jared Dec Full disclosure, one reason I am reviewing this film is because Allan mentioned it once as a film that might have made it into the book if he had access to a copy with English subtitles....
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Mulholland Falls
By J.D. Lafrance They say timing is everything and this certainly applies to the release and reception of movies. Case in point: Mulholland Falls (1996). Released a year before the very similar L.A....
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Play “Lost in Yonkers” and Black Panther on Monday Morning Diary (February 19)
by Sam Juliano The Greatest Television Series Countdown Part 2 will commence on Sunday, March 11, and will run all the way until July 23, though there will be two twelve (12) day breaks, one in April...
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Fish Obscuro: Song of the Horse (1971?, Akira Kurosawa)
by Jared Dec Song of the Horse (1971?, Akira Kurosawa) p Akira Kurosawa d Akira Kurosawa w akira kurosawa m ??? e ??? Hiroyuki Kawase (narrator), Noboru Mitami (narrator) Everyone reading this likely...
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s PHANTOM THREAD “I need to do some work…”
© 2018 by James Clark In the spirit of craft, so central to this film, we’ll cover first (all but one of) the essentials of where it’s going; to be followed by how it fares. Though set in London in...
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On the Road
By J.D. Lafrance For years, Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road had been considered unfilmable. That hasn’t stopped people from trying ever since it was published in 1957 with Kerouac himself sending a...
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Oscar Party in Fairview; HD Simulcast of ‘La Boheme’; ‘Baby Jane’ at Jersey...
by Sam Juliano Our 38th annual Academy Awards party will be held at the Tiger Hose Firehouse on Sedore Avenue in Fairview on Sunday, March 4th from 5:30 P.M. till the anticipated midnight conclusion....
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Fish Obscuro: When the Tenth Month Comes (Dang Nhat Minh; Vietnam, 1984)
by Jared Dec When the Tenth Month Comes – Dang Nhat Minh Vietnam 1984 95m d Dang Nhat Minh w Dang Nhat Minh p Lan Nguyen Van Le, Luu Viet Bao Dang, Phu Cuong Lai, Huu Muoi Nguyen, Minh Vuong Nguyen,...
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