Guess the pic

Courtesy of Troy Olson 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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A Serbian Film 2010 – Hell is a place on earth

by Allan Fish (Serbia 2010 104m) DVD2 (from October 2010) Aka.  Srpski film A kind of cartoon for grown-ups p  Srdjan Spasojevic  d  Srdjan Spasojevic  w  Aleksandar Radivojevic, Srdjan Spasojevic  ph  Nemanja Jovanov  ed  Darko Simic  m  Sky Wikluh  art  Nemanja Petrovic  cos  Jasmina Sanader Srdjan Todorovic (Milos), Sergej Trifunovic (Vukmir), Jelena Gavrilovic (Marija), Katarina [...]

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Forget Love for Now – 1937, Hiroshi Shimizu

by Allan Fish (Japan 1937 73m) not on DVD Aka. Koi mo wasurete Keep your stinky perfume d  Hiroshi Shimizu  w  Ryusoke Saito  ph  Isamu Aoki  m  Senji Ito, Akiyasu Ozawa  art  Kotaro Inoue Michiko Kuwano (Oyuki), Tomio Aoki (Kotaro), Bakudankozo (Haru), Shuji Sano (Kyosuke), Fumiko Okamura (Madam), Setsuko Shinobu (A-ko), Hatsue Gion, Man Ikebe, [...]

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‘Blue Sunshine’ Director Jeff Lieberman leaves comment on Jamie Uhler’s Review of Film

                                            Director Jeff Lieberman      Jamie Uhler’s superlative review of the cult horror classic Blue Sunshine has attracted a comment from the film’s director, Jeff Lieberman.  Wonders in the Dark is deeply honored to have Mr. Lieberman appear at the site and voice his own appreciation for the film’s longevity.  This is particularly a great [...]

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William Castle, Ozu, 3D Festival, ‘Milk of Sorrow’ and ‘Animal Kingdom’ on Monday Morning Diary (August 30)

by Sam Juliano Labor Day barbeques, autumn leaves, NFL Football, the fall semester at college, a new school year and the opening of the symphony hall and opera seasons are within grasp, as yet another summer has expired in seeminly speeded-up fashion.  Those of us lucky enough to enjoy some time off from work can [...]

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Wendy and Lucy (Best of the 21st Century?)

by Joel #82 in Best of the 21st Century?, a series counting down the most acclaimed films of the previous decade. The zeroes did not see many high-profile “movements” or artistic trends in American cinema. Indie cinema, the big news of the early to mid nineties, was co-opted by Hollywood, and (perhaps resultingly) few new [...]

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Horror Honorable Mentions: ‘Blue Sunshine’, 1978

directed by Jeff Lieberman, essay by Jamie Horror fans such as I have long used a last name as an adjective: ‘Cronenbergian’. It’s a helpful shorthand for fans of the massively liked director in seeking out lesser works by directors who worked in similar shadowy areas of the genre. Late 70′s films of this type [...]

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Mandara – 1971, Akio Jissoji

by Allan Fish (Japan 1971 135m) not on DVD Aka. Mandala Make harmony with benevolence p  Toyoaki Awa  d  Akio Jissoji  w  Toshiro Ishido  ph  Yozo Inagaki  ed  Keichi Yraoka  m  Toru Kuyuki  art  Noriyoshi Ikeya Shin Kishida, Koji Shimizu, Hiroko Sakurai, Ryo Tamura, In a room furnished entirely in dazzling white, with the only [...]

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Satoshi Kon (1963-2010)

by Stephen Russell-Gebbett Satoshi Kon was one of the great Japanese Animators whose combined work at the turn of the Century represented a creative wave as strong as that felt in France in the late 50s or Hollywood in the 1970s. With Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro), Isao Takahata (Grave of the Fireflies, [...]

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No More Heroes: Bob takes on “Scott Pilgrim”, “The Expendables” and “Salt”

By Bob Clark I often find myself somewhat at odds with myself as a game-designer and cineaste, especially whenever critics disparage works in the latter medium with comparisons to the former. Whether it’s due to over-reliance on artificially generated imagery or character so thinly portrayed they seem to be nothing but ciphers for audience projection, [...]

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