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Professor Russell Johnson’s “My Ancestors Came Over on the Minnow” Thanksgiving/Christmas Movie Quiz
Professor Russell Johnson’s “My Ancestors Came Over on the Minnow” Thanksgiving/Christmas Movie Quiz
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Time again for one of Dennis Cozzalio’s three-hour tours, aka, a holiday movie quiz. This one was a doozy, with 50 questions.
1) Second-favorite Coen Brothers ...
Action
Samson & Delilah (2009)
Director/Screenwriter/Cinematographer : Warwick Thornton
By Roderick Heath
In its poetically sparse, yet intimately realistic first 45 minutes, Warwick Thornton’s debut feature film, which won the Camera d’Or prize at Cannes this year, is an account of two ...
Adventure
The Threepenny Opera (Die 3 Groschen-Oper, 1931)
Director : G. W. Pabst
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Among the giants of theatre, I have always considered Bertolt Brecht to be at the top of the heap. A gifted poet, Brecht created a new theatre for a new, more threatening time, one that ...
Drama
The Big Parade (1925)
Director : King Vidor
By Roderick Heath
King Vidor probably deserves to be held high in the pantheon of American directors, and yet he’s never quite gained the stature he deserved in comparison with the likes of Ford, Hawks, and Wyler. Perhaps this is because his ...
Other
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
Director : Grant Heslov
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Wales is a really happening place these days. First, Welsh television writer/producer Russell Davies made Cardiff the center of extraterrestrial activity in the smashing BBC drama Torchwood , and then ...
Other
Adventureland (2009)
Director/Screenwriter : Greg Mottola
By Roderick Heath
Greg Mottola’s debut film The Daytrippers (1996) stood out from other mid 1990s factotum indie films through its novelistic intelligence and acerbic perspective on artistic aspiration. Adventureland , his ...
Comedy
Adventureland
Big Fan (2009)
Director/Screenwriter : Robert D. Siegel
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Are diehard sports fans sick? This seems to be the central question around which The Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel has built the literate, intelligent script for his directorial debut, Big Fan . He ...
Drama
The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups, 1959)
Director : Francois Truffaut
By Roderick Heath
The 400 Blows , Francois Truffaut’s debut film, is a work around which implicit ironies swirl. It looks as much backwards as it does forwards, to Truffaut’s youthful experiences, and the ...
Drama
Fantastic Planet (La planète sauvage, 1973)
Director/Coscreenwriter : Réne Laloux
De Profundis (2007)
Director/Screenwriter : Miguelanxo Prado
By Marilyn Ferdinand
The realists and the impressionists are at it again. No, we’re not in 19th century France or Nazi Germany. Our ...
Other
Batman (1989)
Director : Tim Burton
By Roderick Heath
Yeah, I can’t believe it’s been 20 years, either. And it’s been at least 15 since I last saw Tim Burton’s grandiose redesign of the classic comic strip and the campy TV show derived from it. I remember the hype around its release ...
Action
Batman
Tim Burton
2009 Polish Film Festival in America
Operation Danube (Operace Dunaj, 2009)
Director : Janek Glomb
By Marilyn Ferdinand
There’s a subgenre of war film that likes to emphasize the absurdity of war by showing how people who have no quarrel with each other and exist in the ...
Other
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Director : Howard Deutch
By Roderick Heath
The death of Michael Jackson and John Hughes within a few weeks of each other had me thinking a lot about the 1980s. I never had much time for ’80s youth pics when I was an ’80s youth, and I watched most of Hughes’s ...
Drama
2009 Polish Film Festival in America
Earthly Paradise (Droga do Ragu, 2008)
Director/Co-Screenwriter : Gerwazy Reguła
By Marilyn Ferdinand
Once upon a time, there was a lady who was SO good that everywhere she went, the sun followed her and shined its light so strongly that ...
Drama
The Hurt Locker (2008)
Director : Kathryn Bigelow
By Roderick Heath
Here There Be Spoilers.
“War is a drug,” The Hurt Locker ’s foreword assays, and the film follows this thesis to the bitter end. An Iraq War film in all its sundry details and yet, in its way, apolitical and even ...
Action
The Hurt Locker
2009 Polish Film Festival in America
The Forest (Las, 2009)
Director/Screenwriter : Piotr Dumała
By Marilyn Ferdinand
It is not Kieślowski, Wajda, or Pasikowski who are the most sought-after, loved, and welcome of Polish filmmakers at almost all of the world’s festivals. It is ...
Other
Forest Whitaker
CQ (2001)
Director/Screenwriter : Roman Coppola
By Roderick Heath
Damn Francis Ford Coppola and his talented family! Even if, Nicholas Cage excluded (sometimes), they’re entirely preferable behind the camera to in front of it, they’ve still managed to brew many a sour grape into ...
Drama
Skhizein (2008)
Director/Screenwriter/Animator : Jérémy Clapin
By Marilyn Ferdinand
To be “beside oneself” is a turn of phrase we’ve all heard or used at one time or another. It usually refers to someone experiencing something very emotionally charged. Of course, the part of that ...
