Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (no 20)

by Allan Fish (USA 2004 108m) DVD1/2 O my darlin’, o my darlin’… p  Steve Golin, Anthony Bregman  d  Michel Gondry  w  Charlie Kaufman  ph  Ellen Kuras  ed  Valdis Oskarsdottir  m  Jon Brion  art  Dan Leigh  cos  Melissa Toth Jim Carrey (Joel Barish), Kate Winslet (Clementine Kruczynski), Kirsten Dunst (Mary Svevo), Mark Ruffalo (Stan), Elijah [...]

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A One and a Two (no 21)

by Allan Fish (Taiwan 2000 173m) DVD1/2 Aka. Yi Yi Talking to grandma p  Shinya Kawai, Naoko Tsukeda  d/w  Edward Yang  ph  Yang Wei-Han  ed  Chen Bo-Wen  m/art  Peng Kai-Li Wa Nien-Jen (NJ Jien), Elaine Jin (Min-Min), Issei Ogata (Mr Ota), Kelly Lee (Ting-Ting), Jonathan Chang (Yang-Yang), Adriane Lin (Li-Li), Chen Hsi-Sheng (Ah-Di), Ko So-Yun [...]

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Guess the pic

Courtesy of Bob Clark The winner can submit their screen-cap to movieman0283@gmail.com. Do not include film title in file name so I can participate as well! (Give a day or two for the new picture to go up)

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‘Dogtooth’ and Anthony Mann on Monday Morning Diary (June 28)

Martha Hunt, Claire Trevor and Dennis O’Keefe in “Raw Deal” by Sam Juliano Scorching heat has greeted the official opening of summer here in the Northeast, though I’m sure the opposite scenario is unfolding down in Sydney, where Tony d’Ambra and his family are facing the onset of winter.  On a personal note, I was [...]

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Caché (no 22)

  by Allan Fish (France 2005 115m) DVD1/2 Aka. Hidden It is not your concern p  Veit Heiduschka  d/w  Michael Haneke  ph  Christian Berger  ed  Michael Hudecek, Nadine Muse  m  Ralph Rieckermann  art  Emmanuel de Chauvigny, Christoph Kanter Daniel Auteuil (Georges Laurent), Juliette Binoche (Anne Laurent), Maurice Benichou (Majid), Annie Girardot (Georges’ mother), Walid Afkir [...]

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More than a Fairy Tale – Doctor Who & the Pandorica

by Allan Fish It’s been finished 180 minutes as I put keys to keyboard.  Three little hours.  What is time, though?  We’ve been counting down to it from the start, from the start of this series this is.  So has the universe if what we’re told is correct, the base code of the universe is [...]

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Extended Version) (no 23)

by Allan Fish (New Zealand/USA 2003/2004 249m) DVD1/2 One film to end them all p  Peter Jackson, Barrie M.Osborne, Frances Walsh  d  Peter Jackson  w  Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Frances Walsh, Stephen Sinclair  novel  J.R.R.Tolkien  ph  Andrew Lesnie  ed  Annie Collins, Jamie Selkirk  m  Howard Shore  m/ly  Annie Lennox, Frances Walsh  art  Grant Major  cos  [...]

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Lost in Translation (no 24)

by Allan Fish (USA 2003 106m) DVD1/2 So much ‘More Than This’ p  Ross Katz, Sofia Coppola  d/w  Sofia Coppola  ph  Lance Acord  ed  Sarah Flack  m  Kevin Shields  art  Anne Ross, K.K.Barrett  cos  Nancy Steiner Bill Murray (Bob Harris), Scarlett Johansson (Charlotte), Giovanni Ribisi (John), Anna Faris (Kelly), Fumihiro Hayashi, Sofia Coppola’s fresh and [...]

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Memento (no 25)

by Allan Fish (USA 2000 113m) DVD1/2 Discount Inn, room 304 p  Suzanne Todd, Jennifer Todd  d/w  Christopher Nolan  story  Jonathan Nolan  ph  Wally Pfister  ed  Dody Dorn  m  David Julyan  art  Patti Podesta  cos  Cindy Evans Guy Pearce (Leonard Shelly), Carrie Anne Moss (Natalie), Joe Pantoliano (John Edward Gemmell), Mark Boone Jnr (Burt), Stephen [...]

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Shubhajit Lahiri’s Top 100 of the 2000s at ‘Cinemascope’

100 Best Movies of the 2000′s by Shubhajit Lahiri      The 2000’s have been the most incredible time of my two and a half decades’ worth existence. These last ten years have played the most singularly important part in determining not just who I am today, but also, in all probability, in who I will [...]

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