Jambalaya Filmmaker and blogging star Jeffrey Goodman

by Sam Juliano      Bayou filmmaker and arts lover Jeffrey Goodman is one of those rare people whose very name describe their essence.  In the blogging community he stands alone in his astonishing humility, tireless energy and a deep, almost profound reverence for his fellow writers.  Despite the experience of a lifetime in Paris, where [...]

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41. Gilda

Director: Charles Vidor Producer: Virginia Van Upp Screenwriters: Jo Eisinger and Marion Parsonnet Cinematographer: Rudolph Mate Music: Hugo Friedhofer Studio: Columbia 1946 Main Acting: Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford As a young boy of 12, I accompanied my father on an overnight fishing trip that set out from Sheepshead Bay Harbor. Located in Brooklyn on [...]

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“Of Gods and Men,” “Heartbeats,” “Carancho,” “Even the Rain,” Bogie-Bacall and the Oscars on Monday Morning Diary (February 28)

by Sam Juliano As I write the newest installment in the Monday Morning Diary guests are arriving at our 7 Spruce Street abode for this evening’s Academy Awards festivities.   As a result I will limit the scope of the post, as I will be spending several hours and watching the show and intermingling with the [...]

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Another Year – 2010, Mike Leigh

by Allan Fish (UK 2010 130m) DVD1/2 Allotment blues p  Georgina Lowe  d/w  Mike Leigh  ph  Dick Pope  ed  Jon Gregory  m  Gary Yershon  art  Simon Beresford Jim Broadbent (Tom), Ruth Sheen (Gerri), Lesley Manville (Mary), Oliver Maltman (Joe), Peter Wight (Ken), Phil Davis (Jack), Imelda Staunton (Janet), Martin Savage (Carl), David Bradley (Ronnie), Karina [...]

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Puppets Who Can See the Strings: Kenji Kamiyama’s “Stand Alone Complex”

By Bob Clark When Masamune Shirow first produced the manga Mobile Armored Riot Police in 1989, it must have seemed at least somewhat familiar to several of his prior comics works and anime adaptations thereof. Like Dominion: Tank Police, it followed an expert unit of paramilitary officers maintaining law and order in a future Japan [...]

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Oscar Predictions with Dennis and Sam

 

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Future Poll Discussion

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42. He Walked By Night

Director: Alfred Werker and Anthony Mann Producer: Bryan Foy and Robert Kane Screenwriter: John C. Higgins and Crane Wilbur Cinematographer: John C. Alton Music: Leonid Raab Studio: Eagle Lion 1948 Main Acting: Richard Basehart and Roy Roberts I’m not the biggest fan of narrated police procedural semidocumentary pictures that were very popular in the mid [...]

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En cas de Malheur – 1958, Claude Autant-Lara

by Allan Fish (France 1958 122m) DVD2/5 (France/Russia only) Aka. Love is my Profession She’s impulsive and loves sex p  Raoul Lévy  d  Claude Autant-Lara  w  Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost  novel  Georges Simenon  ph  Jacques Natteau  ed  Madeleine Gug  m  René Clourec  art  Max Douy Jean Gabin (André Gobillot), Edwige Feuillère (Viviane Gobillot), Brigitte Bardot [...]

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Getting People Over the Beatles: A Series Examining the Greats of British (and UK) Pop Music

Today’s Beatles entry will be postponed a week, as I haven’t had the time to compile a post that fulfills what I’m attempting to accomplish with this series. Work has needed me into many nights (and an occasional early morning too). In the words of Paul Weller (from the Jam’s ‘Burning Sky’ off Setting Sons): [...]

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