Salutations to anyone and everyone out there ruining their eyesight voluntarily sat in a movie theatre or in front of their large widescreen TVs at home mesmerised by the images floating by in front of you – unless you happen to be watching the latest Judd Apatow or Uwe Boll, in which case, in the words of Mary Astor’s Antoinette de Mauban in The Prisoner of Zenda “you REALLY shouldn’t be here, you know?“
Though this blog will feature fairly regular theatre reviews and even the odd opera or classical piece by yours truly, it will, by and large, be a chapel in the North Transept of the Cathedral Devoted to the Moving Image in general.
Any showings of films, good or bad, attended by yours truly will be reviewed here. Also, there will be regular listings of reviews from that most cynical of keyboard bashers, my friend Allan Fish of the UK. His reviews will be taken from his gargantuan book devoted to the ****½ and ***** masterpieces of the screen (including those of the small screen) and will be updated with random entries on a regular basis. He’d like me to point out that, in italics at the beginning of each review, he lists a caption (quote or some other remembrance) to remind him of the film in question. This is a practice he freely admits was used by one of his influences Leslie Halliwell on his ‘Halliwell’s Hundred’ and ‘Halliwell’s Harvest’ books of the 1980s, and he doffs his cap here.
Please be patient with me, as my IT knowledge is limited, but my enthusiasm, I am constantly told, is tireless, haranguing people into theatres with a zealousness not seen since Midshipmen patrolled the inns of Portsmouth and Southampton looking for ‘volunteers’ for the King’s Navy in Press Gangs.
You’ll see, in the Pages section to the right, a list of movies by year in the Movie Timeline, a basic reference tool to show what major films and milestones were released in a given year. Try and keep the comments clean – well, within reason – and we may make a go of this crazy enterprise.
Sam Juliano, September 2008
This page has the following sub pages.
- Movie Timeline 1888-1919
- Movie Timeline 1920-1929
- Movie Timeline 1930-1939
- BEST FILMS OF THE 1950s – POLL RESULTS
- Movie Timeline 1940-1949
- Movie Timeline 1950-1959
- Movie Timeline 1960-1969
- Movie Timeline 1970-1979
- Movie Timeline 1980-1989
- Movie Timeline 1990-1999
- Movie Timeline 2000-2009
- BEST FILMS OF THE 1940s – POLL RESULTS
- 70s Poll Rules and Updates
- BEST FILMS OF THE 1930s – POLL RESULTS
- LINKS TO ALLAN’S DECADE COUNTDOWNS
- Best Films of the 70s Voting – First 100 Comments
- Guess the pic – music videos
- BEST FILMS OF THE 1960s – POLL RESULTS
Best Wishes to all at Wonders in the Dark!!!
Hi Sam
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Here is the post about your blog:
http://www.katharinehepburntheater.org/2008/11/16/katharine-hepburn-reviewed/
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Thanks so much!
Yes, sadly the Halliwell’s Film Guide has now been decimated.
Note to John Walker – please keep releasing your reviews; people will flock.
Gritten, you’re a fool.
Hi Sam,
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All the best and keep up the excellent coverage!
Kyle
heyy; websites great . but i’m having a hard time finding a movie title. if anyone could help me that would be great. just e-mail me and i’ll give the description of what the movies about.
thanks; bye.
Good site, admin.
Good site, admin.
Hi,
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Thank you!
Enjoyed the comments mentioning Micheaux’s Withing Our Gates.
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Cheers.
Trying to get in touch with admin for DVD review.
Sam,
Do you know what wordpress theme you are using?
Chinese cinema …. do you know ‘Malu Tianshi’ (Street Angel with Zhou Xuan, Zhao Dan) … also a great one with Cui Wei ‘Hongqipu’.