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Inside Jonathan Glazer
by Tim Grierson and Glenn Heath Jr.
Tim is a film and music critic whose writing has appeared in Screen International, Paste, Playboy, L.A. Weekly, The Village Voice, Vulture and Deadspin. He is the author of four books, including FilmCraft: Screenwriting, a ...
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Now Playing: Movie Mezzanine + To Be Cont’d
Since the inception of Movie Mezzanine in the winter of 2013, it’s been a series of trials and errors. We’ve undergone myriad redesigns, editorial changes, hirings and firings, grand openings and grand closings of new subsections. Throughout this time, I have ...
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Into the Wild Dual Career of Sean Penn
Actors inevitably change as they age, sometimes altering their screen personas dramatically in the process. After spending much of their early careers exuding restless energy, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt became comfortable with stillness. Others, like Daniel Day-...
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Opening Acts 3/11/2015
Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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The Film That Makes Me Cry: Fiddler on the Roof, by Andrea Chapman. Chap...
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How I Survived the Oscars
I enjoy a lot of things. Coffee, movies, movies about coffee (shout out to A Coffee in Berlin), long walks on the beach, etc. I do not enjoy the Oscars. Partially, it’s the pretentious hipster inside of me that’s bitter over films like Under the Skin and Nymph...
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A Cinephile’s Survival Guide to February
As assuredly as Punxsutawney Phil will crawl out of his hole every February 2nd and declare it spring (or six more weeks of winter), the second month of the year also brings upon all of us some of the worst box office weekends on the calendar. Known as a dumpi...
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Opening Acts 1/21/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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1. Is ScarJo In ‘Ghost in the Shell’ A Kick-Ass Cyborg Superh...
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Alive and Amplified: The Best of Scarlett Johansson
Call her Lucy, Janet Leigh, Mary Boleyn, Barbara Sugarman, Silken Floss, or Nola Rice; just don’t call her ScarJo. Scarlett Johansson has been acting since 1994, when she made her debut in Rob Reiner’s North at ten years old, but in the 2010s she has made hers...
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These Are the Best!: The Best of 2014 Ballots
As always, in order to compile our Best of 2014 list, we have a vote, which gets distilled into the top 50 that’s over at the main site. Here at the Balcony, though, is where you’ll find the individual ballots from the Movie Mezzanine staff, featuring a colorf...
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