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All posts by Jake Cole
Shelf Life: Wattstax
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Mel Stuart’s 1973 documentary. Wattstax simultaneously fits in and radically contrasts with concert films of the previous few years. Monterey Pop and Woodstock showcase ...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/15/13—3/21/13
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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Shelf Life: The Girl Can’t Help It
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
The carefully ordered chaos of Frank Tashlin’s work has rarely been so concisely summarized than in the introduction to his 1956 feature The Girl Can’t Help It. Like the...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/8/13—3/14/13
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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Something Old, Something New: Floating Clouds / Tabu
Miguel Gomes’ bifurcated Tabu is an ode to the Portuguese concept of saudade, a kind of nostalgia for something long gone. In its first segment, Tabu imbibes this unplaceable sense of loss in an abstract form, roaming around present-day Lisbon in a cocoon of p...
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Shelf Life: The Band Wagon
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
When The Band Wagon made my list of the best older films I saw for the first time in January and February, I got into a brief discussion about it on Twitter with two gre...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/1/13—3/7/13
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: The Terminator
The Film
James Cameron’s apprenticeship as a special effects artist for Roger Corman’s production company served him well on 1984’s The Terminator, Cameron’s second feature but the first to truly be his project from start to finish. Compared to later, more ...
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Shelf Life: A Matter of Life and Death
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s run of films in the 1940s marks one of the all-time great cinematic hot-streaks. Joining forces on a set of propaganda films that...
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Movie Mezzanine’s Oscars Liveblog 2013!
Welcome to Movie Mezzanine's first ever Oscars Liveblog. We'll be here all night, making quips, sharing predictions, gawking at the winners and getting massively drunk. Your livebloggers for the evening will be Corey Atad, Jake Cole, Kristen Sales, Russell Hai...
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