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All posts by Charles Bramesco
Watch: Exclusive Clip From Thriller “Default”
October 17 will see the simultaneous theatrical and VOD release of Default, a thriller about a news crew's plane that gets hijacked on the runway. The film keeps the action inside the plane, turning up the heat as the hostages attempt to make contact with the ...
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“Nas: Time Is Illmatic”
Jay-Z may have laid claim to the title The Blueprint, but Illmatic remains the truest Rosetta stone of hip-hop, dictating the shape and methods that the genre would take in the coming decades. A twenty-year-old Nas wrote the Great American Rap Album in 1994 by...
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Beyond Narrative: When Cinema Stops Making Sense
Stand outside of your local cineplex one evening and eavesdrop on people chatting as they exit the theater. It’s highly unlikely that you’ll hear someone grouse, “Damn, I wish that movie had been more difficult to understand.” But inscrutability is by no means...
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Future Panic: Temporal Anxiety in 2014 Films
In her 2006 text "Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image," film theorist Laura Mulvey carefully maps out the medium's obsession with death. Celluloid degrades, film preservation provides a finite but eternal life to dead people, and home-viewing of...
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Documentarians and Their Subjects
Midway through his heart-palpating new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself, director Steve James ‘fesses up to a slight documentarian’s faux pas. In a voice-over narration, James notes that he and Ebert enjoyed a friendly relationship prior to the start of produ...
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