The Continuing Legacy of Allan Fish
Live Last read · last published · next check
by Sam Juliano I am over the moon to post a preliminary look at the dazzling cover and spine art for my upcoming book, Allan Fish: Wonders in the Dark, A Memoir of Friendship, my fifth soon-to-be-published work, after four novels. The back text is currently in a garbled foreign-language font, serving as a placeholder […]
by Sam Juliano Lucille and I were back at New Jersey’s Broadway-level Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn for their highly acclaimed production of West Side Story, which was every bit as terrific as the reviews promised. Part 2 of our live theater Father’s Day weekend was a well-reviewed production of the timeless Tony Award-winning musical […]
by Sam Juliano I want to thank all the writers for their creativity over the past several days in the service of the Tenth Annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival. It was quite a venture, and I’ll be talking about it in the upcoming tribute book, Allan Fish: Wonders in the Dark, A Memoir of […]
by Sam Juliano In September of 2003, Allan Fish sat down at a keyboard. He was thirty years old and was living in the Lake District home where he was raised and spent most of his life. He was not, by his own account, planning to write a book. Rather, as he explained to me […]
(introduced & organized by Joel Bocko) For the tenth annual Allan Fish Online Film Festival, I couldn’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the late critic than to lead you right back to his own writing. Having already gathered his decades countdowns in two directories (one text, the other purely image), I’m […]
. Directors: Mario Camerini, Mario Bava (uncredited)Screenwriters: Franco Brusati, Mario Camerini, Ennio De Concini, Hugh Gray, Ben Hecht, Ivo Perilli, Irwin Shaw By Roderick Heath This essay is proudly presented as part of the Tenth Annual Allan Fish Film Festival Despite its essential place as a foundation stone in the western storytelling tradition, Homer’s epic […]
by Jay Giampietro For twenty-five years, across six computers, I’ve dragged a folder labeled “AI emails”, which archives the digital correspondence I had with Sam Juliano after I hated Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film, “A.I.” I’d met Sam a few years earlier through another movie lover I knew from my hometown,…
by Lee Price Lists and the People Who Make Them In 2006, I embarked on a mission to create the grandest movie list of them all. With help from my friends at the IMDb Classic Film Board, I set out to create a 2,000-movie list of the most essential movies of all time, borrowing the […]
by Robert Hornak And now for something completely selfish. And maybe a bit out of left field. And probably a lot political. When Miloš Forman died in April of 2018 I wrote up a very short remembrance on zekefilm.org that mostly focused on my favorite of his films, The Firemen’s Ball. Meanwhile, the film was […]
by Tony D’Ambra This is a revision of a post at my Another Cinema Blog from 2014 – shifting the impressionistic framing to a more cinematic appreciation of Vigo’s cinema. A 4K restoration of L’Atalante was released last December, and can be viewed on-line at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMHltueLug. A young bride in her white wedding dress stands […]
