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Looking Back: “Alice or the Last Escapade”
“To the memory of Fritz Lang.” So reads the dedication at the opening credits of Claude Chabrol’s remarkable 1977 film Alice or the Last Escapade. Long known as “the French Hitchcock” for his suspenseful dissections of the bourgeoisie, Chabrol deeply admired L...
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Independent Film Festival of Boston Announces 2014 Line-Up
Here in Boston, the arrival of April means that we can put away our snow shovels, get back to using the Frog Pond as a reflecting pool, and start counting down the hours until opening day at Fenway. It also means an influx of independent cinema throughout our ...
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“The Wind Rises”: A Gorgeous Film That Doesn’t Take Off
The following review has been republished from our AFI Film Festival coverage. It reviews the original Japanese dub, and not the newly released English dub.
If The Wind Rises is truly Hayao Miyazaki's last film (and remember, this is the seventh time that h...
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“The Monuments Men” Proves That Not All Art Is Worth Saving
Even the real Monuments Men wouldn’t preserve The Monuments Men.
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Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films From Sundance 2014
As has always been the case, I wasn't able to go to the Sundance Film Festival at Park City, Utah this year; able only, like so many of us, to fawn over social media, tweets, and reviews of festival films that are worth seeing as I gently caress my computer sc...
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The 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam Starts
The 43rd edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) opened on 22 January with the screening of Spike Jonze’s Academy Award nominated and critically acclaimed Her and an eight-minute video on its artistic – and political – mission this year. D...
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Not For Your Consideration
Another year has passed and again we find ourselves pining for recognition for films that should have been in the race, yet found themselves on the outside looking in. This is certainly not a new development, sometimes the films not nominated receive most of t...
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‘The Truth About Emanuel’: She’s the Worst
Writer/director Francesca Gregorini’s The Truth About Emanuel is a psychological thriller about the ricocheting effects of a mother's death in childbirth. It focuses on the strange attraction between a seventeen-year-old girl named Emanuel and her new neighbor...
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Individual ‘Best Movies of 2013’ Ballots
Below are the individual ballots from each writer on the Movie Mezzanine staff. Hopefully you'll find an eclectic batch of interesting films from these lists, which best describes this great year of film. And be sure to check out our list of the 50 best films ...
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SXSW Announces “Veronica Mars,” Jon Favreau Premieres
South by Southwest, Austin's premiere film festival and conference that, in some ways, has eclipsed Sundance as the place to see a lot of the upcoming independent features and go to workshops/seminars with a lot of the movers and shakers in entertainment media...
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