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Battle of Directors: Robert Altman vs. Sidney Lumet
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Awful Special Effects Sequences To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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The Needle Drop: “You’ll Have To Learn, Just Like Me”: Faces’ “Ooh La La” and Rushmore
Any discussion about movie soundtracks must eventually come around to Wes Anderson. His soundtracks are one of many completely unique authorial touches, as there is no more mistaking a Wes Anderson soundtrack than there is a Wes Anderson visual tableau or Wes ...
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With A Little Help from Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
I imagine just about everyone reading this article watched the 85th Aca...
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Short Stuff: A Bear Misses His Mother in Stephen Irwin’s Twisted, Morbidly Funny Moxie
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five-minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we launched Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising short-fo...
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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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The Invisible Cinema: Jesus of Montreal
In Denys Arcand’s 1989 Academy-nominated film Jesus of Montreal, allegory is treated as a not-so-subtle scaffolding with which the Quebecois director presents a cross-section of hypocritical ‘80s Quebecois culture—sexually fetishized advertising; the media’s b...
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Getting Excited for the Oscars with Russell and Corey
The Oscars are almost here, so we though we should talk a bit about them. What are we excited about? What are we dreading? Who do we think will win? Who do we want to see thrown into an active volcano? Russell and Corey Atad talked about it and here are the ...
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Argo: Love it or Hate it, it’s Good for the Industry
With the Academy Awards this weekend, and the blu-ray release this week, Argo is on everyone's minds right now. Having swept every major guild award, as well as the Golden Globes and Critics Choice awards, the film looks to be unstoppable on Sunday night, in s...
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Our Favorite 15 Working Directors
In lieu of this week's Battle of Directors column, the Movie Mezzanine staff decided to rally together to form an arbitrary (yet thoroughly enjoyable to produce) list of our favorite working filmmakers. Diverse and (hopefully) thoughtful selections lie below. ...
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