The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (no 31)

by Allan Fish
(West Germany 1974 110m) DVD1/2
Aka. Every Man for Himself and God Against All/Jeder Fur Sich und Gott Gegen Alle
Are you a tree-frog?
p/d/w  Werner Herzog  ph  Jorg Schmidt-Reitwein  ed  Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus  m  J.Pachelbel, T.Albinoni, Orlando diLasso, W.A.Mozart  art  Henning V.Clerke
Bruno S. (Kaspar Hauser), Walter Ladengast (Daumer), Hans Musaus (unknown man), Brigitte Mira (Kathe), Michael [...]

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Monday Morning Diary (June 29)

by Sam Juliano
This is the first post in a brand new weekly column here at WitD that aims at getting readers to talk about what they’ve seen during the previous week, what they’ve listened to, what they might have seen on stage or in concert, or even what they may have watched on DVD or [...]

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Mirror (no 32)

by Allan Fish
(USSR 1974 106m) DVD1/2
Aka. Zerkalo
Andrei’s childhood
p  E.Waisberg  d  Andrei Tarkovsky  w  Andrei Tarkovsky, Alexsandr Misharin  ph  Georgy Rerberg  ed  L.Feiginova  m  Eduard Artemyev  art  Nikolai Dvigubsky
Margarita Terekhova (Alexei’s mother, Natalia), Philip Yankovsky (Alexei, aged 9), Ignat Daniltsev (Ignat/Alexei, aged 12), Oleg Yankovsky (Father), Alla Demidova (Lisa), Anatoli Solinitsin (doctor), Larissa Tarkovskaya (Nadezha), Innokenti [...]

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Wanda (no 33)

by Allan Fish
(USA 1970 105m) DVD1
No curlers!
p  Harry Shushter  d/w  Barbara Loden  ph/ed  Nicholas T.Proferes
Barbara Loden (Wanda Baranski), Michael Higgins (Mr Dennis), Dorothy Shupenes (Wanda’s mother), Peter Shupenes (brother-in-law), Jerome Their (Mr Baranski), Charles Dosinan (Father), Marian Thier (Miss Godek), Anthony Rotell (Tony), Joe Dennis (Joe), Frank Jourdano, M.L.Kennedy,
In the ‘Halliwell’s Who’s Who in the [...]

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La Maman et la Putain (no 34)

by Allan Fish
(France 1973 219m) not on DVD
Aka. The Mother and the Whore
Jump, Narcissus!
p  Pierre Cottrell  d/w  Jean Eustache  ph  Pierre Lhomme, Jacques Renard, Michel Cenet  ed  Jean Eustache, Denise de Casabianca  m  W.A.Mozart, Jacques Offenbach 
Jean-Pierre Léaud (Alexandre), Bernadette Lafont (Marie), Françoise Lebrun (Veronika Osterwald), Isabelle Weingarten (Gilberte), Jacques Renard (Alexandre’s friend),
As it is with [...]

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Simon & Garfunkel Australian Tour 2009

by Tony d’Ambra
“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all gone to look for America
I was among the capacity crowd of over 20,000 for Simon & Garfunkel’s third and final Sydney concert Tuesday night. The duo [...]

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McCabe & Mrs Miller (no 35)

 
by Allan Fish
(USA 1971 120m) DVD1/2
Like he was giving up the holy game of poker
p  David Foster, Mitchell Brower  d  Robert Altman  w  Robert Altman, Brian McKay  novel  “McCabe” by Edmund Norton  ph  Vilmos Zsigmond  ed  Lou Lombardo  m  Leonard Cohen  art  Leon Ericksen, Philip Thomas, Albert J.Locatelli  cos  Ilse Richter
Warren Beatty (John McCabe), Julie [...]

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A Very Sad Day… Michael Jackson Has Passed Away

Michael Jackson was one of music’s most successful and influential artists. The singer, who CNN reports died earlier today in Los Angeles at the age of 50 (reps did not immediately comment), recorded a series of pop classics as part of the Jackson 5 and then became a massive solo star. His 1982 album Thriller [...]

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Forsaken 70’s Cinema: “A Separate Peace” Based on Novel by John Knowles

by Sam Juliano
Today’s review of  ”A Separate Peace”, based on the novel by John Knowles is the second in a planned series that will examine films from the 1970’s that were either forgotten, undervalued or misunderstood at the time of their release.
     From the late 60’s to the late 90’s three novels dominated the literature component of high [...]

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La Dentellière (no 36)

by Allan Fish
(France 1977 107m) not on DVD
Aka. The Lacemaker
In casino fortuna 
p  Yves Gasser  d  Claude Goretta  w  Pascal Lainé, Claude Goretta  novel  Pascal Lainé  ph  Jean Boffety  ed  Joelle Van Henterre, Nelly Meunier, Martine Charasson  m  Pierre Jansen  art  Serge Etter, Claude Chevant 
Isabelle Huppert (Béatrice), Yves Beneyton (François), Florence Giorgetti (Marylène), Anne-Marie Düringer (Béatrice’s [...]

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