© 2010 by James Clark The prospect of understanding what it is Lynch communicates from film to film is never within easy reach; but it only attains to extra-galactic proportions with that battle-fatigued singularity, titled, Dune (1984), and directed, variously, by “David Lynch” and “Alan Smithee.” Lynch has been quoted as being attracted to a [...]
Archive for April, 2010
Guess the pic is back
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Joel Bocko has selected this mystery image. Please share your own conjectures below: whoever guesses correctly is invited to send him their own selected screen-cap at movieman0283@gmail.com. He will then post it here, and the game will begin again. (Make sure you don’t title the file with any giveaway names, so that he can participate [...]
Funland (no 81)
Posted in Allan's 2000s Countdown on April 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
by Allan Fish (UK 2005 358m) DVD2 Looking for Ambrose Chapel p Sanne Wohlenberg d Dearbhla Walsh, Susan Tully, Brian Kirk w Simon Ashdown, Jeremy Dyson ph Lukas Strebel ed Emer Reynolds, Tony Cranstoun Kris Marshall (Dudley Sutton), Ian Puleston Davies (Shirley Woolf), Daniel Mays (Carter Krantz), Roy Barraclough (Onan Van Kneck), Judy Parfitt (Mercy [...]
Gosford Park (no 82)
Posted in Allan's 2000s Countdown on April 29, 2010 | 32 Comments »
by Allan Fish (US/UK 2001 138m) DVD1/2 Awfully long repertoire p David Levy, Robert Altman, Bob Balaban d Robert Altman w Julian Fellowes ph Andrew Dunn ed Tim Squyres m Patrick Doyle art Stephen Altman cos Jenny Beavan Kelly MacDonald (Mary Maceachran), Clive Owen (Robert Parks), Alan Bates (Jennings), Michael Gambon (William McCordle), Kristin Scott [...]
Let the Right One In (no 83)
Posted in Allan's 2000s Countdown on April 28, 2010 | 46 Comments »
by Allan Fish (Sweden 2008 114m) DVD1/2 Aka. Lat den Ratte Komma in Twelve years, eight months and nine days p Carl Molinder, John Nordling d Tomas Alfredson w John Ajvide Lindqvist novel John Ajvide Lindqvist ph Hoyte van Hoytema ed Daniel Jonsater, Tomas Alfredson m Johan Söderqvist art Eva Norén Kare Hadebrant (Oskar), Lina [...]
Girl With a Pearl Earring (no 84)
Posted in Allan's 2000s Countdown on April 27, 2010 | 11 Comments »
by Allan Fish (UK 2003 100m) DVD1/2 Yellow, blue and grey p Andy Paterson, Anand Tucker d Peter Webber w Olivia Hetreed novel Tracy Chevalier ph Eduardo Serra ed Kate Evans m Alexandre Desplat art Ben Van Os cos Dien Van Straalen Scarlett Johansson (Griet), Colin Firth (Johannes Vermeer), Tom Wilkinson (Peter van Ruijven), Judy [...]
L’Enfant (Best of the 21st Century?)
Posted in Best of the 21st Century? on April 26, 2010 | 11 Comments »
by Joel Bocko #57 in Best of the 21st Century?, a series counting down the most acclaimed films of the previous decade. You’re about halfway through L’Enfant when you realize whom exactly the title refers to. Sonia (Déborah François) has just had a baby boy, and when the movie opens, she’s seeking the child’s father. [...]
Monday Morning Diary (April 26)
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2010 | 63 Comments »
‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ shown at Jersey City Loews on Saturday by Sam Juliano Dave Hicks’s marathon film noir countdown is over, and the young man deserves all the credit and veneration that’s due to him for the tireless research, re-viewings and painstaking attention he focused on this noble enterprise for the better part of [...]
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