Heaven’s Gate (no 1)

I draw the reader’s attention to the disclaimer at the bottom of the main piece…

(USA 1980 219m) DVD1
In principle, everything can be done
p  Johann Carelli  d  Michael Cimino  w  Michael Cimino  ph  Vilmos Zsigmond  ed  Tom Rolf, William Reynolds, Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald Greenberg  m  David Mansfield  art  Tambi Larsen, Spencer Deverill, Maurice Fowler  cos  Allen [...]

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1980’s Poll Voting Ends on Saturday, October 10

              Jean de Florette (1986) one of decade’s greatest films
     The deadline for submitting completed Top 25 ballots for the 1980’s poll is Saturday October 10 at 11:00 P.M. EST.  As per our standard, voters are allowed 10 days after Allan Fish’s #1 choice is unveiled, which in this case is scheduled for tomorrow morning [...]

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Once Upon a Time in America (no 2)

(USA 1984 228m) DVD1/2
An appointment at Fat Moe’s
p  Arnon Milchan  d  Sergio Leone  w  Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero de Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli, Franco Ferrini, Stuart Kaminsky, Sergio Leone  novel  “The Hoods” by David Aaronson, Harry Grey  ph  Tonino delli Colli  ed  Nino Baragli  m  Ennio Morricone (with Giaocchino Rossini, Cole Porter, Joseph M.Lacalle, Lennon [...]

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Monday Morning Diary (September 28)

                                        Scene from Jane Campion’s Bright Star
               
                                          Poster from documentary In Search of Beethoven
by Sam Juliano
     New York sports fans are on cloud nine this weekend and in baseball the Yankees completed a sweep of the Boston Red Sox to clinch the eastern division crown, while both the football Jets and the football Giants have begun [...]

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The Singing Detective (no 3)

(UK 1986 415m) DVD1/2
Ten cents a dance, fella
p  John Harris, Kenith Trodd  d  Jon Amiel  w  Dennis Potter  ph  Ken Westbury  ed  Bill Wright, Sue Wyatt  m  Stanley Myers  art  Jim Clay
Michael Gambon (Philip Marlow), Patrick Malahide (Mark Binney), Alison Steadman (Lili), Joanne Whalley (Nurse Mills), David Ryall (Mr Hall), Ron Cook (1st mysterious man), [...]

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Joel Bocko (Movie Man’s) Review of “For the Love of Movies”

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 terrific essay on film criticism, “For the Love of Movies’ recently appeared.   With permission from the Examiner, the feature is  printed here.  It is expected that more work from Bocko [...]

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Berlin Alexanderplatz (no 4)

(West Germany 1980 921m) DVD1/2
There is a reaper, he is called Death
p  Peter Marthesheimer  d/w  Rainer Werner Fassbinder  novel  Alfred Döblin  ph  Xavier Schwarzenberger  ed  Jiliane Lorenz  m  Peer Raben  art  Harry Baer
Günter Lamprecht (Franz Biberkopf), Hanna Schygulla (Eva), Barbara Sukowa (Mieze), Gottfried John (Reinhold), Franz Buchrieser (Meck), Karin Baal (Minna), Peter Kolleck (Nachum), Elisabeth [...]

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Bob Clark’s Spectacular Review of Michael Cimino’s ‘Heaven’s Gate’

 by Bob Clark
Prologue

The time is 1890, and the place is Johnson County, Wyoming. A man and his wife butcher and clean a carcass of cattle on their isolated farm, as their children look on and help. The farm is surrounded by sheets of canvas billowing in the wind, erected on all sides to shield any [...]

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Dekalog (no 5)

(Poland 1988 559m) DVD1/2
Aka. The Decalogue/The Ten Commandments
More monumental than Sinai
p  Ryszard Chutkowski  d  Krzysztof Kieslowski  w  Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krsysztof Piesewicz  ph  Wieslaw Zdort, Edward Klosinski, Piotr Sobocinski, Krzysztof Pakulski, Slawomir Idziak, Witold Amadek, Dariusz Kus, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Jacek Blawut  ed  Ewa Smal  m  Zbigniew Preisner  art  Halina Dobrowolska
Henryk Baranowski (Krzysztof), Wojciech Klata (Pawel), Maja [...]

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Exceptional 80’s Cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Santa Sangre’

by Sam Juliano
     Few directors in the cinema have split art house audiences and film critics as severely as Chilean-born Alejandro Jodorowky.  While his admirers have issued rapturous praise, even going as far as to declare him as the heir apparent of Luis Bunuel and the master of surrealist cinema, his detractors have condemned him [...]

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