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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (1/16/13–1/22/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1. Alamar (Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio, 2009)
This gentle gem is one of my absolute favorite films of the last several years. Set ...
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Blu-Ray Review: Wake in Fright
From its opening 360-degree pan, Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright paints the Australian wild as a terrifying void where the only thing more unsettling than desert as far as the eye can see are the false oases of ostensible civilization that grow out of the dust. ...
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Netflix Instant Picks 1/11/13-1/17/13
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 (1/9/13–1/15/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. 'Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)
With this pick, I am truly biased: Dead Man just happens to be one of my all-time favorite film...
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Looking Back: ‘A Canterbury Tale’
Welcome to the first edition of Looking Back, where each week writer Andreas Stoehr will highlight movies from the underexplored grottos of film history. We hope you enjoy!
Throughout the 1940s, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaborated (as “The Ar...
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‘Overtime’: Not Quite a Time and a Half
The sight of two hitmen in suits in any film made after 1994 is always a worrying sight. The Tarantino knockoff could have been its own section in Blockbuster during the late-’90s, with some of the dreck (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Boondock Saint...
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The Best Blu-Rays of 2012
VHS reigned as the most popular home video format for 20 years before DVDs replaced it, and DVDs enjoyed just half that time before Blu-Ray emerged as the studio-backed video format. Now hints of 4K TVs and Red-Ray threaten to give this latest usurper but half...
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Netflix Instant Picks of the Week 1/4/13-1-10/13
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 Top 10 Criterion Releases of 2012
Gauging audience reaction of some of its new selections, Criterion had a bit of a mild year in 2012. An upgrade-heavy schedule filled with some real head-scratchers (My Life as a Dog? Really?) made the company look a bit shaky compared to its colleague across ...
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‘Cosmopolis’: Clockwork Chaos
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Out on DVD this week is David Cronenberg's latest film Cosmopolis, an unrelenting commentary on contemporary capitalism, and the emotionally inert individuals that run the system.
Working out of an opulent, white stretch limo, Eric Packer (Robert Patt...
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