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The Latest Commentary: A French wunderkind graciously indulges my questions about his impressive short film, Deauville, Eva Green and even that old gothic soap opera I’m always on about

My personal ranking of films released in the year 2017 (that I have seen and reviewed so far)

The Ten Latest Feature Film Reviews…

• When high school student Andrew Detmer begins to Chronicle his life with his new camera, he has no idea of the strange events that will soon overtake him, his cousin Matt and their friend Steve

• When Paul was a child, the workmen employed by his father teased him about whether he was going to small school or to the Grande École

• When his fledgling career fighting crime as Spider-Man looks like a failure, Peter Parker decides to embrace high school life and ask Liz to the Homecoming dance

• “So long, Funny Girl,” says gambler Nick Arnstein to his wife, Ziegfeld Follies star Fanny Brice, as he heads off to serve a prison term for fraud

• In 1940, civilian boats from England come to the rescue of 400,000 British trapped in an increasingly desperate situation in the French port town Dunkirk

• Merlin acquires for Uther Pendragon the mystical sword Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake, but the blade will have to be drawn from a stone before Uther’s son Arthur can become king

• When her social worker and friend Ms. Murray says, ‘Conquering the past allows you to live in the now,’ troubled young Ingrid must wonder, Is This Now?

• Since he shows no aptitude for a conventional job, a Dublin couple’s best hope may be that their son Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx in America

• British intelligence agent Alec Leamas must take on one last mission before he can become The Spy Who Came in from the Cold War to the expected comfort of civilian life

• Columbia University linguistics professor Alice Howland may be losing her memories due to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, but in spite of it all she is Still Alice

The Three Latest Short Film Reviews…

• The story of conscientious supermarket employee Terry Kendall and Orange Green, the strange man who stalks her, takes a disturbing turn

• New York accountant John Porter becomes increasingly unnerved by The Watchers whose eyes seem to follow him everywhere he goes

• The Vesper in a dark sky haunts the fitful dreams of Marge Ofenbey, as she contends with fear, guilt and confusion—all in the lingering presence of her husband Walter

Commentary Flashback…

23 December 2004: How’s this for an idea for a new TV series: a vampire and his doctor friend travel through time into the future and wind up on a space station near the rim of the galaxy

Selected Past Reviews…

Flashback to 1985: Ronee Blakley’s I Played It for You

Flashback to 1996: Camilo Luzuriaga’s Between Marx and Naked Woman

Other Stuff…

My Inbox: Press Release: A Life Not To Follow out July 4!

Alphabetical Index of My Personal Eulogies

My List of Personal Eyewitness Accounts of Public Interviews of Various Movie People

Web Site Statistics for July


Total Number of Feature Films, Documentaries and Shorts Reviewed to Date: 2,460