8 years ago
The Balcony (10 posts found)
A new section of the theater where you’ll find another view of the silver screen. With lists, galleries, recommendations, and more, the view from above is always swell.
Some Men Want to Watch the World Burn: The Best of Paul WS Anderson
Paul W.S. Anderson is best known for being the director behind the Resident Evil franchise and other video game adaptations like Mortal Kombat. This has often coloured his career in ways both negative and positive. He can't quite shake the distinction of being...
Read more →
Watch This: New Errol Morris Short Documentary “The Heist”
As part of Grantland's Errol Morris week, they will be unveiling a new short documentary by the prolific filmmaker each day titled "It's Not Crazy, It's Sports" that feature bizarre true stories related to sports and their fans. The latest one is subtitled "Th...
Read more →
Bring It On Back: The Best of the ’90s
If Twitter is good for one thing, it’s for satiating our inexplicable desire to make lists. So many a critic and film buff to the micro blogging platform to list the best and/or their favorite films of the 1990s with the hashtag #90sTen. I’m not entire sure wh...
Read more →
Watch This: Errol Morris Short Documentary “The Subterranean Stadium”
One of my favorite websites, Grantland, is being awesome and doing an Errol Morris week, and as such they are featuring a brand new short documentary by the prolific filmmaker each day this week titled "It's Not Crazy, It's Sports". Each segment will document ...
Read more →
Imagine Me and You: Female Friendship on Film
In the landmark PBS documentary “Growing Up Female” Julia Reichert and Jim Klein sought out to put a spotlight on socialization of girls growing up in America in the 1970s. One of the more troubling aspects of that picture was the prevailing notion that media ...
Read more →
Video Essay: See What I See
With just four films to his name, Bennett Miller has already become one of the most respected directors working today. Yet suprisingly all of his films have been based, in part, on true stories. Miller tackles these stories because while they seem fixated on o...
Read more →
Opening Acts 3/2/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
A Brief History of Crimes Committed in the White House by Mike Pearl. To...
Read more →
Falling Stars: The Peril of Fame in Film
Looking from the outside in, the lives of the rich and the famous look pretty spiffy. They live in awesome houses, they wear awesome clothes, they have awesome accoutrements, and they get to do awesome stuff pretty much all day, every day. But if David Bowie a...
Read more →
Love Streams: When Serge Wrote Fairytales – “Anna” (1967)
Anna is a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-posts-girl’s-picture-all-over-Paris type of film. Serge, a lovestruck photographer played by Jean-Claude Brialy, desperately looks for the girl he crossed paths with at a train station. Haunted by a photogr...
Read more →
Film Critic of the Week: Teo Bugbee
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle Turner, Chief Editor of Movie Mezzanine’s The Balcony, and welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we have the superb Teo Bugbee, whose work has...
Read more →
