Author Archives: Ted Hicks

About Ted Hicks

Iowa farm boy; have lived in NYC for 40 years; worked in motion picture labs, film/video distribution, subtitling, media-awards program; obsessive film-goer all my life.

Best Documentaries 2022 – Supplemental

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Ted Hicks

_____________________________________________ All That Breathes New York Film Festival Q&A with Shauak Sen (21:22) Doc NYC interview with Shaunak Sen (13:57) _____________________________________________ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed New York Film Festival Q&A with Laura Poitras & Nan Goldin (38:27) ______________________________________________ … Continue reading →

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What I Saw Last Year – Best Documentaries 2022

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Ted Hicks

All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)  Powerful film concerning Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud, two brothers in New Delhi who run a clinic that treats black kite birds that frequently fall from the sky because of pollution and other environmental issues. … Continue reading →

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Best Feature Films 2022 – Supplemental

Posted on February 9, 2023 by Ted Hicks

Here are interviews, clips, etc. for some of the films listed in Part 2 of this Best Films series. ___________________________________________________ After Yang AFI interview with director Kogonada (5:50) ________________________________________________________ Decision to Leave New York Film Festival interview with director Park … Continue reading →

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Best Feature Films 2022, Part 2 – The Best of the Rest

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Ted Hicks

Here are the best of the rest of what I saw last year, 20 films in alphabetical order, with the exception of the first one listed. I don’t claim that all of these are great films (though some of them … Continue reading →

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What I Saw Last Year – Best Feature Films 2022 – Part 1

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Ted Hicks

I saw a total of 322 films in 2022 – 214 in theaters and 108 streaming or on discs, both new and old. I’ve come up with 30 films that are the best of what I saw, or at least … Continue reading →

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Another Year – Whew!

Posted on December 31, 2022 by Ted Hicks

Here I am slamming this out on the last day of the year. Rather than trying to come up with something clever and pithy about the year just ending, let’s get right into the usual grab bag of random images … Continue reading →

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Wonder and Weirdness #2 – The Dangerous Visions of Virgil Finlay

Posted on December 5, 2022 by Ted Hicks

I started seeing Virgil Finlay‘s amazing artwork in the science fiction and fantasy magazines I was reading in the 1950s. I was aware of his name from the start because he signed his work with a distinctive signature, which usually … Continue reading →

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Wonder and Weirdness #1 – Ed Emshwiller

Posted on November 30, 2022 by Ted Hicks

I was familiar with Ed Emshwiller’s science fiction illustrations long before I knew his name or anything about his career. From 1951 to 1979, he created over five hundred covers for many science fiction magazines and paperbacks. In the 1960s, … Continue reading →

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At the Heights – Movies since 1926

Posted on November 10, 2022 by Ted Hicks

Last month we traveled to Minneapolis to see friends. Mark Ryan, one of my oldest friends and, like me, an obsessive movie buff, had been telling me for several years about the Heights Theater and how great it is. After … Continue reading →

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“That Shit You Call Music” – Before New York, Part 3

Posted on October 17, 2022 by Ted Hicks

 Minneapolis, September 1973 to January 1977 After being discharged from the Air Force in August of 1970, I returned to the University of Iowa in Iowa City to resume my education and my old job at a local bookstore. After … Continue reading →

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