This week's selections of undeservedly (and a few deservedly) underappreciated audio/visual experiences...as always, thanks to all the contributors and you readers. And apologies for the delay in the second half being posted...Life really is one damned thing after another.
Allan Fish: The Plea
Anne Billson: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (among other melancholy PI films); George Miller, 1985
Anthony Neil Smith: against author readings
Bill Crider: Soldier [trailer--the 1998 Kurt Russell film]
B.V. Lawson: Media Murder
Comedy Film Nerds: Chris Denson; The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The Secret of Kells, and others
Dan Stumpf: It Always Rains on Sundays
David Vineyard: Corto Maltese and the Gilded House of Samarkand
Dorian TB: His Kind of Woman
Ed Lynskey: The Killers (1946 film)
Eddie Deezen: The Party at Kitty and Stud's
Elizabeth Foxwell: London Belongs to Me (aka Dulcimer Street)
Evan Lewis: Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
George Kelley: Dig
How Did This Get Made?: A View to a Kill
Iba Dawson: I am Michael
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The Ed Sullivan Show
Jackie Kashian: Alexandra Klimavich on Harry Potter World (Orlando, FL) and related matters
Jacqueline T. Lynch: Ann Blyth and railroad films
Jake Hinkson: Orson Welles' Centennial Festival; Welles and his films
James Reasoner: The World's End
Jeff Flugel: 1970s US tv: independent commercial stations and their rerun slates, Kojak and The Streets of San Francisco
Jerry House: The Baby Snooks Show
John Grant: Silent Dust; I Start Counting
John-Henri Holmberg: Raumpatrouille Orion (1960s German sf tv series)
Jonathan Lewis: Taza, Son of Cochise
Juri Nummelin: Finnish neo-noir films
Kliph Nesteroff: Paul Krassner
Laura: South of St. Louis
Lucy Brown: Funny Lady
Mark Fertig: Out of the Storm
Martin Edwards: Murder Without Crime
Marty McKee: Hustler Squad
Patrick Murtha: Hell's Half Acre
Patti Abbott: Bouchercon 2006
Randy Johsson: Range Feud; Death on High Mountain (aka...)
Rick: High Society (both the Bowery Boys film and that other one)
Rod Lott: Popcorn
Sergio Angelini: Killjoy
Stacia Jones: The Velvet Touch
Stephen Bowie: Peyton Place and how episode guides are published now...
Walter Albert: The Motorla Television Hour: "Thirteen Clocks"
Some really unusual choices here (Finnish Noir? Fab!). Thanks Todd, great stuff.
ReplyDeleteJuri (or Tapani Bagge) (or just maybe Jukka Halme) would be whom you'd ask about just that subject, Sergio...thanks for the benison! And your continued contribution to this weekly effort.
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