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Quan Min Mu Ji (2013)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 24, 2016
vt Silent Witness
China / 115 minutes / color / 21st Century Wink, Tik, InLook Vision, Shanghai Yinrun, Anhul, Beijing Media, Beijing New Film Association, Shenzen Dream Life, Beijing MaxTimes Dir & Scr: Fei Xing Pr: Xiao Pingkai Cine: Zhao Xiaoding Cast: Sun Honglei, Aaron Kwok, Yu Nan, Deng Ji read more
o/t: In my hot little hands
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 23, 2016
Two recently arrived author copies to add to the shelves. Congrats! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /& read more
Ninth Guest, The (1934)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 20, 2016
US / 67 minutes / bw / Columbia Dir: R. William Neill Scr: Garnett Weston Story: The Invisible Host (1930) by Gwen Bristow and Bruce Manning, and The Ninth Guest (1930 play) by Owen Davis Cine: Benjamin Kline Cast: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis, Edwin Maxwell, Vincent B read more
o/t: Todd Mason’s verlooked A/V: the links to reviews, interviews and more
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 19, 2016
Yes! It’s here again — the invaluable roundup of great a/v articles and reviews from around the intertubes. Click HERE to be taken to Todd’s Sweet Freedom blog and the individual links. Can’t wait to get home and watch Mulva Lends a Hand (rated not safe for work…). Will read more
Phoenix (2014)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 17, 2016
Germany / 98 minutes / color / Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Tempus, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, arte, Piffi Dir: Christian Petzold Pr: Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber Scr: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki Story: Le Retour des Cendres (1961) by Hubert Monteilhet Cine read more
Return from the Ashes (1965)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 13, 2016
UK, US / 107 minutes / bw / Mirisch, UA Dir & Pr: J. Lee Thompson Scr: Julius Epstein Story: Le Retour des Cendres (1961) by Hubert Monteilhet Cine: Christopher Challis Cast: Maximilian Schell, Samantha Eggar, Ingrid Thulin, Herbert Lom, Talitha Pol, Vladek Sheybal, Jacques Cey, Jacques Brunius, read more
o/t: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 11, 2016
This was the third and last of the three essays I wrote for the epic, ongoing Science Fiction Movies Countdown being staged at Wonders in the Dark. (The countdown, running from #100 to #1, today reached #48, with a splendid essay by Sam Juliano on Them! (1954), a movie that I’ve somehow never read more
o/t: The Midnite Drive-In’s Film Noir Blogathon
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 10, 2016
For some reason, I’ve only just learned about this. Although it’s official start date is Saturday, already a number of great contributions to it have been posted. Click on the flyer to be taken to the blogathon’s home page. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Y read more
Država (2013)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 10, 2016
vt The State Serbia / 75 minutes / color + some bw / Connections, Echo Dir: Jelene Marković Pr: Jelene Marković, Saša Radojević Scr: Saša Radojević Cine: Ana Božinović, Ksenija Livada Cast: Ana Stefanović, Jelene Marković, Milutin Petrović, Aleks Tsimerlis, Amra Latifić, Ljuma Penov, Svetlana read more
o/t: Todd Mason’s Overlooked AV: reviews, interviews and more in re: films, television, radio, museums and more . . .
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 8, 2016
Yet another of Todd’s invaluable roundups. Click HERE to be magically transported to his Sweet Freedom blog, where you’ll find all the individual links. What a fabulous line-up here, and thanks so very much for ths hout-outs for our science fiction countdown my friend! Fill read more
o/t: The Fleischer Animations
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 6, 2016
(This is my contribution to the Classic Movie History Project, a blogathon being run by Movies Silently, Silver Screenings and Once Upon a Screen. Please excuse the rather hurried picture selection/editing. This offering is adapted from the essay in my 2001 book Masters of Animation. I’m hoping to read more
o/t: Nineteen-Eighty Four (1984)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 6, 2016
***The great movie (and other things) website Wonders in the Dark is currently running a 100-movie-strong Science Fiction Countdown, and I’m contributing some pieces. Today sees my witterings about Michael Radford’s superb 1984 offering Nineteen Eighty-Four. Click the link below to see t read more
o/t: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 4, 2016
The excellent website Wonders in the Dark is running a daily countdown of the 100 best science-fiction movies as voted upon by a jury of peers (at my request, not including me), and I’ve volunteered for three of the essays. This one appeared at WitD the other day. Of course, Nineteen Eighty-fo read more
Moglie, La (2007)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Aug 3, 2016
Italy / 23 minutes / color / Imperium, Lupin Dir: Andrea Zaccariello Pr: Riccardo Neri, Emiliano Bellini, Gianluca Mainquà Scr: Paolo Rossi, Andrea Zaccariello Cine: Fabio Zamarion Cast: Valeria Solarino, Enrico Silvestrin, Remo Remotti, Stefano Mondini (voice). In a pseudish modern art gallery a read more
o/t: leisure reading in July
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 31, 2016
For some reason I read far less than usual this month. Perhaps it was that I got really quite bored by two of the longer books I read ‑‑ both far too long, in fact ‑‑ so that, far from stealing moments to sneak in an extra chapter or two while I should have been doing something else, I was seizing read more
Dos au Mur, Le (1958)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 30, 2016
vt Back to the Wall France / 93 minutes / bw / Société Nouvelle des Établissements, Gaumont Dir: Édouard Molinaro Pr: François Chavane, Alain Poiré Scr: Frédéric Dard, François Chavane, Jean Redon, J.L. Roncoroni Story: Délivrez-Nous du Mal (1956) by Frédéric Dard Cine: Robert Lefebvre Cast: read more
o/t: some reviews for “Eureka!”
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 29, 2016
My new YA book, Eureka!: 50 Scientists Who Shaped Human History, is coming out on Tuesday from Zest. I still haven’t seen a copy (cutting things a bit fine, hm, Zest?), but I’m told it looks very handsome. I said the other day I’d post a few extracts from the reviews it’s rec read more
Dark Tower, The (1943)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 27, 2016
UK / 93 minutes / bw / Warner–First National Dir: John Harlow Pr: Max Milder Scr: Brock Williams, Reginald Purdell Story: The Dark Tower (1933 play) by George S. Kaufman, Alexander Woollcott Cine: Otto Heller Cast: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom, Frederick Burtwell, Bill Hartnell read more
o/t: Something Remains/Joel Lane
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 26, 2016
The hugely talented writer Joel Lane, best known for his dark fantasy, died far too young in 2013. He left behind him scattered notes for a myriad of stories that he’d never gotten around to writing, and it occurred to Pauline Dungate that a suitable memorial to him might be a charity antholo read more
Before Dawn (1933)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jul 22, 2016
US / 62 minutes / bw / RKO Dir: Irving Pichel Pr: Merian C. Cooper Scr: Garrett Fort Story: “The Death Watch” (1932; in Sergeant Sir Peter) by Edgar Wallace Cine: Lucien Andriot Cast: Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Wilson, Warner Oland, Dudley Digges, Gertrude W. Hoffman, Oscar Apfel, Frank Reicher, Jane read more