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All posts by Jake Cole
Shelf Life: The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Confrontational in their subject matter and surrealistic in their composition and movement, Kenneth Anger’s films nevertheless provide an accessibly invigorating entry p...
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Netflix Instant Picks 4/5/13—4/11/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Blu-Ray Review of the Masterful Moniseur Verdoux
If The Great Dictator strove to save the Tramp from Nazism, Monsieur Verdoux truly destroys him by making him the concentration camp commandant. Aside from a voiceover narration from the protagonist and a disarming photograph, widow-murdering Henri Verdoux’s t...
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The Power of Communication is Alive and Well in the Sublime Extraordinary Stories
Extraordinary Stories begins with an ordinary sight, of a man walking in medium-close-up down a dirt road in an extended shot. An off-screen narrator stresses the unremarkable banality of this man (played by director Mariano Llinás), whom he names only X amid ...
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Something Old, Something New: Duelle / Spring Breakers
Something Old, Something New is a bi-weekly column that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how...
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Shelf Life: Steamboat Round the Bend
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
"Time: The early 90’s
Place: The Mississippi River"
These two lines, laid matter-of-factly over a picturesque shot of a steamboat lazily rolling down the Mississippi...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/29/13—4/4/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Wrong: A Surreal Slog
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If Quentin Dupieux is not the most emptily provocative and insufferably self-involved of the newest batch of noteworthy filmmakers, he’ll do ‘til the worst gets here. He is a glorified YouTube user who pads out mildly amusing five-minute videos into full-...
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Shelf Life: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Éric Rohmer’s final feature, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, is, in its own way, as appropriate a send-off for the director as one could desire. From its literary/silent-filmic cutaway title cards to its depiction of lovers erecting barriers around their de...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/22/13—3/28/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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