by Sam Juliano
With August now a memory, the new school year looks the teacher contingent at WitD dead-on, and many must now focus their efforts in different directions. Three threads here at the site got fantastic action, with the Inglourious Basterds review attracting 109 comments, Joel Bocko’s Boston Examiner review of Spielberg’s Jaws nabbing 71 responses, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Monday Morning Diary (August 31)
Posted in Uncategorized on August 31, 2009 | 79 Comments »
This is Spinal Tap (no 30)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 31, 2009 | 62 Comments »
(USA 1984 83m) DVD1/2
This goes up to eleven
p Karen Murphy d Rob Reiner w/m/ly Christopher Guest, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer ph Peter Smokler ed Robert Leighton art Dryan Jones
Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St Hubbins), Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls), Rob Reiner (Marty DiBergi), R.J.Parnell (Mick Shrimpton), David Kaff (Viv Savage), Tony [...]
Joel Bocko (Movie Man’s) Review of Mariano Llinas’s ‘Historias Extraordinarias’
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The Dancing Image’s Joel Bocko. a.k.a. ‘Movie Man’ is one of WitD’s most analytically gifted commentators. He also writes free-lance for ‘The Boston Examiner’ where his superlative review of Mariano Llinas’s ‘Historias Extraordinarias’ recently appeared. With permission from the Examiner, the review is partially printed here. It is expected that more work from Bocko will be appearing [...]
Grave of the Fireflies (no 31)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 30, 2009 | 27 Comments »
(Japan 1988 94m) DVD1/2
Aka. Hotaru no haka
The little red tin
p Tohru Hara d/w Isao Takahata novel Akiyuki Nosaka ed Takeshi Seyama m Yoshio Mamiya art Ryoichi Sato
VOICES BY:- Rhoda Chrosite (Setsuko), J.Robert Spencer (Seito), Amy Jones (aunt), Veronica Taylor (mother), Shannon Conley, Crispin Freeman, Dan Green,
For those who do not know Takahata’s masterpiece, my exclaiming [...]
Hannah and Her Sisters (no 32)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 29, 2009 | 73 Comments »
(USA 1986 105m) DVD1/2
E.E.Cummings, page 112
p Robert Greenhut d/w Woody Allen ph Carlo di Palma ed Susan E.Morse m various art Stuart Wurtzel
Woody Allen (Mickey Sachs), Mia Farrow (Hannah), Michael Caine (Elliot), Dianne Wiest (Holly), Carrie Fisher (April), Barbara Hershey (Lee), Lloyd Nolan (Evan), Maureen O’Sullivan (Norma), Max Von Sydow (Frederick), Daniel Stern (Dusty), Sam [...]
The Big Red One – Reconstruction (no 33)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 28, 2009 | 19 Comments »
(USA 1980/2004 163m) DVD1/2
Damned wetnoses!
p Gene Corman d/w Samuel Fuller ph Adam Greenberg ed Morton Tubor m Dana Kaproff art Peter Jamison
Lee Marvin (Sergeant), Mark Hamill (Griff), Robert Carradine (Zab), Kelly Ward (Johnson), Bobby DiCicco (Vinci), Siegfried Rauch (Schroeder), Stéphane Audran (Walloon), Serge Marquand (Ransonnet), Alain Douley (Broban), Charles Macaulay (General),
Of the various director cameos [...]
Jamie Uhler’s take on Tarantino’s latest ‘Inglourious Basterds’
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 | 23 Comments »
Please follow the ride-as-stream-of-thought.
Consider:
Now consider other ’serious’ paintings, with serious subjects. Think Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ perhaps. Maybe an important political Levine (‘The Feast of Pure Reason’ for example) too. What’s the difference? Well many things, but for what we are dealing with here, in relation to Tarantino’s new ‘Inglourious Basterds’, it’s about what surrounds the work. [...]
Quentin Tarantino’s World War II Epic “Inglourious Basterds”
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2009 | 116 Comments »
by Sam Juliano
Sophomoric. Sadistic. Racist. Long-winded. Repugnant. Repetitive. Lacking in depth. Quentin Tarantino’s two-and-a-half hour epic about a squad of Jewish-American commandos and a French Jew out to avenge the murder of her family at the hands of the Nazis is a serious-minded treatise that gives fleeting concern to black comedy, and showcases some of the director’s [...]
Rouge (no 34)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
(Hong Kong 1987 97m) DVD1/3 (Hong Kong only)
Twelfth Master, 3811, waiting at the same place
p Jackie Chan d Stanley Kwan w Lee Bihua, Qiu-Dai Anping novel Lee Bihua ph Bill Wong ed Peter Cheung m Michael Lai art Piao Ruomu, Horace Ma
Anita Mui (Fleur), Leslie Cheung (Chan Chen-Pang, Twelfth Master), Alex Man (Yuen), Emily Chu [...]
Come and See (no 35)
Posted in Allan's 80s Countdown on August 26, 2009 | 16 Comments »
(USSR 1985 142m) DVD1/2
Aka. Idi i Smotri
Ode to Lily of the Valley
p/d Elem Klimov w Ales Adamovich, Elem Klimov book Ales Adamovich ph Alexei Rodionov ed Valeriya Belova m Oleg Yanchenko art Viktor Petrov
Aleksei Kravchenko (Florya Gaishun, the boy), Oleg Mironova (Glasha, the girl), Lyubomiris Lautsiavitchus (Kosach), Vladas Bagdonas, Victor Lorentz,
Anyone who has seen the [...]
