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History of Film (8 posts found)
History of Film: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Fanny and Alexander’
In spotlighting Ingmar Bergman’s magnum opus Fanny and Alexander as one of the great films of the 1980s, one cannot help but marvel at how out of step with the ‘80s it is, and least of all for its period setting in the early years of the 20th century. In a dec...
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History of Film: David Lynch’s ‘Blue Velvet’
David Lynch's Blue Velvet is a film containing all the ingredients of a Lynchian nightmare without venturing too deep into abstraction. It's because of this that the film isn't one of Lynch's more heavily dissected works, but that doesn't make it any less subs...
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History of Film: Irvin Kershner’s ‘Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back’
Arguably the standard for sequels in Hollywood, The Empire Strikes Back has aged considerably well to come to be regarded as not only the finest entry in the franchise, but also one of the best pieces of pop-cinema ever made. Expanding on the dense mythology o...
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History of Film: Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’
Editor's note: Brazil is one of the ten best films of the 1980s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise and building anticipation, we'll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the ver...
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History of Film: The Best Is Yet To Come
Dear Readers of Movie Mezzanine,
Ever since first launching the site I’ve prefaced each film-focused list with the same run-of-the-mill spiel: ranking and objectifying art is an arbitrary exercise that for some inexplicable reason is enjoyable. Unlike films...
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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1980s
No need to elongate this latest entry into our History of Film feature by reiterating the fact that this sort of ranking of art is arbitrary. We all know it is, and continue to indulge in this guilty pleasure-like exercise anyway. Below are ballots collected f...
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The History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1990s
I've come to terms with the fact that there's no artful way of prefacing these posts. Making a list that objectifies art is inherently silly, nonsensical, and artless. Alas, we do it anyway.
After the wild success of the first installment into the "History ...
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The History of Film: The Best Movies of the 2000s
We live in an IMDB world where many people feel The Dark Knight is better than Citizen Kane and Casablanca and Apocalypse Now and the list goes on. While IMDB's top 250, alongside a myriad of other baffling "best movies ever lists," aren't necessarily cataclys...
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