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The Lav Diaz Retrospective
Due to the elusive nature of Diaz's works his films are very difficult to find unless you're looking or living in the right places. The ones who are lucky enough to stumble upon his pictures often find themselves with nothing more than VHS tape level of qualit...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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Birthday Wishes: Michael Clarke Duncan, The Giant
Michael Clarke Duncan (1957-2012) would have been 56 today. With his huge frame and deep voice, he was a reliable heavy in films from his initial burst of fame in the late 90's until his death. He was another one of those people who started off doing other thi...
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2014 Sundance Film Festival Lineups Announced
Just as the 2013 Best of Lists start rolling in, the Sundance Institute is announcing the first wave of contenders for 2014. Below you will find the press release for the U.S. And World Competitions, but at a quick glance nothing pops out at me. I know I have ...
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There’s Very Little To Admire About ‘The Great Beauty’
Sorrentino's meditation on beauty and potential is a reductive, smug mess that doesn't know where to point its satire.
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The Richard Linklater Retrospective: The Trembling Begins
Here we are witness to a sea of mangled intent, to stop here and dissect what we know and what we see before us is to still lay in a bed of adoration. There are few misfires, and the misfires could be swiftly forgiven. If Richard Linklater had not survived 200...
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Grantland’s Mark Harris Addresses Category Fraud
Grantland's Mark Harris is one of the preeminent film writers of this generation and no one, I mean no one, deconstructs the "importance" of Oscar season like him. His piece this past Friday about the inherent awards-worthiness of films like Nicole Holofcener'...
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‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ Is Scarily Ambitious But Not Fully Successful
While it isn’t quite as satisfying as a lot of his other work, it may ultimately be more memorable, just because of Wan’s willingness embrace the sillier elements of the genre other filmmakers might wish to play down.
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‘The World’s End’: Temper Your Expectations For A Cornetto You’ve Tasted Before
Director Edgar Wright and stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return for one last bite of the Cornetto in The World’s End, the final entry in their pop-culturally attuned comic answer to Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors films, the Blood & Ice-Cream trilogy....
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The David Lynch Retrospective: ‘Mulholland Dr.’
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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