Sam Juliano’s Prediction For Best Actress…and Sam’s Personal Choice.

Oscar@ Statues [Editor's Note; The Poll Will Change When A Different Oscar@ Category Is Posted.] Sam Juliano’s Sums Up Why He Predicts Sandra Bullock, Will Win…For Best Actress. By Sam Juliano… The ‘Best Actress in a Leading Role’ category is the year’s most intriguing acting category, and the one boasting in an overall sense the [...]

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The Skeleton Dance (no 29)

by Allan Fish (USA 1929 6m) DVD1/2 Tonight’s the night the boney men have their picnic p  Walt Disney  d  Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks  m  Carl W.Stalling Of all the entries in this list representing the often overlooked art of the animated short or cartoon, picking a favourite would be an unenviable task.  How can [...]

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Bob proofreads “The Ghost Writer”

**** ½   By Bob Clark   Of the myriad twists, turns and genuine surprises to be found throughout The Ghost Writer, perhaps the biggest one is the revelation that Roman Polanski is, in fact, a colossal bookworm. This is, after all, the second thriller he’s built around, of all things, the publishing world, and [...]

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Sherlock Junior (no 30)

by Allan Fish (USA 1924 45m) DVD1/2 How to be a detective p  Joseph M.Schenck  d/ed  Buster Keaton  w  Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell  ph  Elgin Lessley, Byron Houck Buster Keaton (Sherlock Jr), Kathryn McGuire (girl), Ward Crane (rival), Joseph Keaton, Of the three great silent comedians – along with Chaplin and Lloyd – [...]

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Sam Juliano’s Prediction For Best Supporting Actress…and Sam’s Personal Choice.

Oscar@ Statues [Editor's Note; The Poll Will Change When A Different Oscar@ Category Is Posted.] ================================================= Sam Juliano’s Sums Up Why He Predicts Mo’Nique Will Win…For Best Supporting Actress. By Sam Juliano… The nominees for the 2009 Best Supporting Actress category were practically a foregone conclusion with the possible exception of the omission of veteran [...]

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Les Vampires (no 31)

by Allan Fish (France 1915 399m) DVD1/2 Irma Vep, Irma Vep! p/d/w/ed  Louis Feuillade  ph  Manichaux  m  Robert Israel  art  Garnier Musidora (Irma Vep), Eduard Mathé (Philippe Guerandé), Marcel Levesque (Oscar Mazamette), Louis Leubas (Satanas), Jean Aymé (1st Grand Vampire), Fernard Hermann (Moreno), Stacia Napierkowska (Marfa Koutiloff), Edmund Bréon (Secretaire de Satanas), Moriss (Venemous), Germaine [...]

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The Battle of the Somme (no 32)

  by Allan Fish (UK 1916 73m) DVD2 We’re here because we’re here… p  William F.Jury  d  none  ph  J.B.McDowell, Geoffrey A.Malins  ed  Geoffrey A.Malins, Charles Urban  m  Laura Rossi (DVD reissue) Here is a unique film in this selection.  Take one look at the credits; there is no director listed.  It’s not because he [...]

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The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (no 33)

by Allan Fish (Germany 1919 75m) DVD1/2 Aka. Das Kabinet des Dr Caligari Awake for a moment from your dark night p  Erich Pommer  d  Robert Wiene  w  Carl Meyer, Hans Janowitz  ph  Willy Hameister  art  Hermann Warm, Walter Röhrig, Walter Reimann  cos  Walter Reimann Werner Krauss (Caligari), Conrad Veidt (César the Somnambulist), Lil Dagover [...]

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Best of the 21st Century? (new version)

by Joel Bocko Last fall, in response to They Shoot Pictures Don’t They‘s “21st Century” canon, I launched a series exploring the most acclaimed films of the 21st century. Beginning at the top of the list, I set out to watch every film that I hadn’t seen before – and to write about each one [...]

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Die Nibelungen – Parts I & II (Siegfried & Kriemheld’s Revenge) (no 34)

by Allan Fish (Germany 1924 291m) DVD1 Aka. The Nibelungen/Siegfried’s Tod & Kriemhild’s Rache Lang slays the dragon p  Erich Pommer  d  Fritz Lang  w  Thea Von Harbou  ph  Carl Hoffman, Günther Rittau  ed  Fritz Lang  m  Gottfried Huppertz  art  Otto Hunte, Karl Vollbrecht, Erich Kettelhut  cos  Paul Gerd Guderian  dream sequence  Walter Ruttmann Paul [...]

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