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Shelf Life: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
It wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam film if something didn’t go catastrophically wrong, but 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus stands out even among the tales of merc...
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Netflix Instant Picks 2/8/13—2/14/13
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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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (2/4/13–2/10/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) Night of the Living Dead/The Night of the Living Dead
Ah, what a difference a "the" can make! That's not the only d...
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Looking Back: ‘The Sniper’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
"TO THE POLICE—STOP ME—FIND ME AND STOP ME—I'M GOING TO DO IT AGAIN."
You can almost feel the desperation bleeding out of those words, scrawled in ch...
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Shelf Life: Man of the West
Anthony Mann’s Man of the West depicts the West as a prison from which there is no escape, where those who flee its cesspool of violence and anarchy get pulled back by some invisible force in due time. Mann’s style, at once cheaply utilitarian and psychologica...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (2/1/13—2/5/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989)
This is the film turned Daniel Day-Lewis, great actor, into Academy Award-winner Daniel Day...
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Netflix Instant Picks 2/1/13—2/7/13
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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Netflix Instant Picks 1/25/13-1/31/13
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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Looking Back: ‘The Scarlet Empress’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
The first thing I notice about The Scarlet Empress (1934) is Marlene Dietrich's cheekbones. They're essential to the film, as essential as its chiaroscu...
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Netflix Instant Picks 1/18/13-1/24/13
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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