Spoiler Alert: Bob Flashes Back on Six Years of “Lost”

  Lost **** ½   By Bob Clark   When you get right down to it, good episodic-drama has very little to do with storytelling as an ends to itself. The best long-form multi-part narratives all certainly manage to tell satisfying tales with their own beginnings, middles and ends, surely enough, but simply telling those [...]

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Antichrist (no 50)

by Allan Fish (Denmark/France 2009 104m) DVD1/2 Paradise nuked p  Meta Louise Foldager  d/w  Lars Von Trier  ph  Anthony Dod Mantle  ed  Anders Refn  art  Karl Juliusson Willem Dafoe (husband), Charlotte Gainsbourg (wife), Aside from the mild divertissement of The Boss of It All, Lars Von Trier had been quiet since Manderlay.  The criticism he [...]

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This week the ‘Monday Morning Diary’ will be the ‘Tuesday Morning Diary’

    This week’s Monday Morning Diary will become the Tuesday Morning Diary, as per usual practice when we have a three-day ‘holiday’ weekend stateside.  While a number of folks head down the shore, others opt to barbeque at home for the Memorial Day breather, while still others (like Yours Truly) will be taking the family [...]

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Guess the Pic

From Mr Lyre: “Look, a black cat!”

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Vendredi Soir (no 51)

by Allan Fish (France 2002 90m) DVD1/2 Aka. Friday Night At times like this we need to be charitable p  Bruno Pesery  d  Claire Denis  w  Emmanuele Bernheim, Claire Denis  novel  Emmanuele Bernheim  ph  Agnes Godard  ed  Nelly Quettier  m  Dickon Hinchliffe  art  Katia Wyszkop  Valerie Lemercier (Laure), Vincent Lindon (Jean), To those au fait [...]

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‘Micmacs’ A Tire-Larigot

By Marc Bauer The greatest beauty in filmmaking also happens to be one of its most terrible tragedies. Outside of the world of serial films, movies exist in a universe created entirely unto themselves. When you watch a film, you are glimpsing a window into a world created solely for that film. In many instances, [...]

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10 (no 52)

by Allan Fish (Iran 2002 93m) DVD1/2 Dashboard drama p  Abbas Kiarostami  d/w  Abbas Kiarostami  ph  Abbas Kiarostami  ed  Vahid Gazi, Abbas Kiarostami, Bahman Kiarostami  m  Howard Blake Mania Akbari (driver), Amin Maher (Amin), Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh, Amene Moradi, Mandana Sharbaf, Kamran Idi, 2002 saw two incredible experiments in cinematic form.  The first, Sokurov’s [...]

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Before Sunset (no 53)

by Allan Fish (USA 2004 80m) DVD1/2 Strangers in the night part deux p  Anne Walker McBay  d  Richard Linklater  w  Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke  ph  Lee Daniel  ed  Sandra Adair  m  Julie Delpy, Nina Simone, Glover Gill  art  Baptiste Glaymann Ethan Hawke (Jesse), Julie Delpy (Céline), Vernon Dobtcheff (publisher agent), When I [...]

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Journey’s End: A Farewell to ‘Lost’

by Phillip Johnston      This past Sunday, Lost ended.  If that means something to you, you may be happy to be reading about the show on a website dedicated to the very best of film and (sometimes) television; if it doesn’t mean something to you, you may be tempted to skip over this post.  I [...]

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Still Walking (no 54)

by Allan Fish (Japan 2008 114m) DVD1/2 Aka. Aruitemo, Aruitemo The name of that sumo wrestler p  Yoshihiro Kato, Satoshi Kono, Hijiri Taguchi, Masahiro Yasuda  d/w/story  Hirokazu Kore-Eda  ph  Yutaka Yamazaki  ed  Horokazu Kore-Eda  m  Gonchichi  art  Toshihiro Isomi, Keiko Mitsumatsu You (Chinami Kataoka), Hiroshi Abe (Ryota Yokayama), Yoshio Harada (Kyohei Yokoyama), Ryoga Hayashi (Mutsu [...]

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