by Allan Fish (USA/Spain 1961 184m) DVD1/2 Out of the gates of history into legend p Samuel Bronston d Anthony Mann w Frederic M.Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman ph Robert Krasker ed Robert Lawrence m Miklós Rózsa art/cos Veniero Colosanti, John Moore Charlton Heston (Roderigo Diaz de Bivar, El Cid), Sophia Loren (Doña Chimene), Geneviève [...]
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Guess the pic
Posted in Guess the pic on July 30, 2010 | 24 Comments »
Courtesy of Allan Fish 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)
Continuing the reinterpretation of ‘Letters to a Young Poet’
Posted in Uncategorized on July 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Letter 3: Viareggio, near Pisa (Italy) April 23, 1903 You gave me much pleasure, dear Sir, with your Easter letter; for it brought much good news of you, and the way you spoke about Jacobsen’s great and beloved art showed me that I was not wrong to guide your life and its many questions to [...]
David Lynch’s ‘Mullholland Drive’ Named Best Film of the 2000s by WitD Readers by Wide Margin
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2010 | 84 Comments »
Mulholland Drive is big winner for top spot in 2000′s polling by Sam Juliano David Lynch’s surrealist mind bender, Mullholland Drive, captured the top spot in the long-running 2000′s poll conducted by WitD by a comfortable margin, according to Voting Tabulator Extraordinaire Angelo A. D’Arminio Jr. from his Fairview home yesterday. D’Arminio announced [...]
Anthony Mann DVD Giveaway: A Correct Guess wins you a free sealed 2 disc copy of ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2010 | 16 Comments »
A free sealed 2 disc DVD set of Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire will be sent postage-free to the person who enters the first correct answer to this question in the comment thread: Which actor played prominent roles in films directed by both Anthony Mann and D.W. Griffith? (and [...]
A visual reinterpretation of ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
Posted in Uncategorized on July 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
by Jamie Uhler At first it seemed like just a curious idea I had: offer the Wonders community Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ in a serial form. It seemed like a natural fit, as it is a series of letters between Rilke and a 19 year old admirer, Franz Kappus. Having us [...]
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