© 2010 by James Clark In the course of the bewildering machinations propelling David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997), two detectives have under surveillance a young man enjoying a full calendar of trysts. One says, “Fucker gets more pussy than a toilet seat.” What we have to keep in mind with this is that toilet seats [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Monday Morning Diary (March 29)
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2010 | 71 Comments »
Dreamworks’ absolutely marvelous animated feature ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ by Sam Juliano All hail Allan Fish! The sometimes onery and cantankerous Wonders in the Dark film genius will no doubt downplay his latest extended venture, but it’s frankly the most extraordinary achievement by a single person in the blogosphere since I’ve been here, and [...]
Sunrise (no 1)
Posted in Allan's up to 1929 Countdown on March 28, 2010 | 35 Comments »
by Allan Fish (USA 1927 97m) DVD1/2 A Song of Two Humans p William Fox d Friedrich W.Murnau w Carl Mayer novel “A Trip to Tilsit” by Hermann Sudermann ph Charles Rosher, Karl Struss ed H.H.Caldwell, Katherine Hilliker, Harold Schuster m Hugo Riesenfeld art Rochus Gliese George O’Brien (the man), Janet Gaynor (the wife), Margaret [...]
The Wedding March (no 2)
Posted in Allan's up to 1929 Countdown on March 27, 2010 | 9 Comments »
by Allan Fish (USA 1928 115m) not on DVD No honeymoon p Pat Powers, Jesse Lasky Jnr, Adolph Zukor d Erich Von Stroheim w Harry Carr, Erich Von Stroheim ph Hal Mohr, Ben Reynolds, Ray Rennahan ed Frank Hull, Josef Von Sternberg, Julian Johnson md Carl Davis (including various classics) art Erich Von Stroheim, Richard [...]
Greed – The Reconstruction (no 3)
Posted in Allan's up to 1929 Countdown on March 26, 2010 | 70 Comments »
by Allan Fish (USA 1924/1998 141m) not on DVD A dentist’s tale p Erich Von Stroheim, Irving Thalberg d Erich Von Stroheim w Erich Von Stroheim, June Mathis novel “McTeague” by Frank Norris ph Ben Reynolds, William H.Daniels ed Erich Von Stroheim, Rex Ingram, Grant Whytock, June Mathis, Jos W.Farnham m Carl Davis art Richard [...]
Napoleon – Kevin Brownlow Restoration (no 4)
Posted in Allan's up to 1929 Countdown on March 25, 2010 | 12 Comments »
by Allan Fish (France 1927/1980 234m/324m) DVD4 (Australia only – 234m version) Proud as an eagle p/d/w Abel Gance ph Jules Kruger, Léonce-Henry Burel ed Abel Gance, Marguerite Pinson m Carl Davis/Carmine Coppola (orig.Arthur Honegger) art Alexandre Benois, J.Schildnecht, Eugène Lourié ph-spc Simon Feldman Albert Dieudonné (Napoleon Bonaparte), Vladimir Roudenko (Napoleon as a boy), Gina [...]
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (no 5)
Posted in Allan's up to 1929 Countdown on March 24, 2010 | 20 Comments »
by Allan Fish (France 1928 83m) DVD1 Aka. The Passion of Joan of Arc Cinematic sainthood p/d Carl T.Dreyer w Carl T.Dreyer, Joseph Delteil, Pierre Champion ph Rudolph Maté ed Carl T.Dreyer art Hermann Warm, Jean Hugo cos Valentine Hugo Renée Falconetti (Joan), Eugène Silvain (Bishop Cauchon), Maurice Schutz (Nicholas Loyseleur), Michel Simon (Jean Lemaitre), [...]
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