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The Art of Lists: Anarchy Disguised As Order
As a recent addition to the Movie Mezzanine team, my first task as a contributor was to offer my picks for the best films of the 1970s for our History of Film archive. It was expected that we'd all agree on a few, while others would scarcely be recognized. Gre...
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‘Escape From Tomorrow’ Reveals The Ugly American
Escape From Tomorrow uses Disney iconography as little more than window-dressing for a mean-spirited portrait of boorish masculinity.
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The Empathy of ‘Captain Phillips’
If you’re a Hollywood producer, and you’ve got your hands on a particular kind of property - a thrilling docudrama about an intense and violent recent event – who is the first director you call? There is only one choice: Paul Greengrass.
The English directo...
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Gravity Defines Cinema As A Magic Act
As the years go by, visual effects have become more commonplace and audiences have become savvier, leaving filmmakers in a tough position. How can film still capture the imaginations of viewers and leave them feeling like they just saw a magic trick?
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A New “Narnia” Film, An Old Dilemma
Laya Maheshwari explores the difficulties of continuing the Narnia film franchise.
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Where We Come From: The Good and Bad of Location-Specific Cinema
CINEMA is a powerful tool that can be used to show a country’s nationalism to the world. A great deal of pride can be evoked in the mind of a nation through images, and to capture that can have great influence in whatever purpose the film serves. Jean-Pierre J...
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Why Next Year’s ‘Fargo’ FX Series Warrants Equal Doses of Skepticism and Excitement
Fans of Joel and Ethan Coen have had time for the latest news on the upcoming TV adaptation of Fargo to sink in, after it was made public that the FX 10-part series would not feature any of the characters from the source material as originally thought. Instead...
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A Defense of ‘Pacific Rim’ Along with Other Reflections
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When it comes to creating movies aimed at seasoned fans, most filmmakers are content to set their sights on remaking longtime existing entities with a firmly established canon. Whether they be superheroes, toys, or pop...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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The ‘Sapphires’ DVD Cover Backlash
The story of a male singer with his four female back-ups getting ready to sing a storm in Saigon during the Vietnam War is a perfectly plausible one, finding success in the form of Australia’s 2012 feelgood hit The Sapphires. It came off a treat and to much cr...
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