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Shelf Life: The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Éric Rohmer’s final feature, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, is, in its own way, as appropriate a send-off for the director as one could desire. From its literary/silent-filmic cutaway title cards to its depiction of lovers erecting barriers around their de...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/22/13—3/28/13
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: 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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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/11/13–3/17/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Murder!
A clock chimes, a woman screams, the titles come up: Murder! Thus begins Alfred Hitchcock's second sound film, a mur...
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Looking Back: ‘Seconds’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
What if you could go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with a new life and the face of Rock Hudson? That's the tantalizing hypothetical ques...
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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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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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