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Time After TIme: Looking Back at “Before Sunrise”
When Peter Bogdanovich interviewed Jimmy Stewart, Stewart told a story about a random guy who once told him, "You did this thing in a movie where you read a poem once … That was good." Stewart realized that the guy was talking about a movie that came out in 19...
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(Death) Scenes from a Marriage: 7 Films to Watch After “Gone Girl”
David Fincher and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl provided countless thinkpieces with their adaptation of Flynn’s bestselling thriller, and much of it wrangled with what exactly the film was trying to say about marriage and about gender. Some called it the most femi...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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The 50 Best Movies of 2013
We thought that 2012 was a fantastic year for film, but 2013 turned out to be even better. Not even 50 places seems like quite enough to recognize every great movie that hit theaters over the past 12 months, but we've done our best to narrow it down. Nearly 30...
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Letterboxd’s Best of 2013
etterboxd is a site that is quickly gaining popularity in the short time it has existed allowing users to log, rate, review and tag movies as they are watched, even following friends to check in onwhat they are watching. Just in 2013 alone, the site has regist...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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Grantland’s Mark Harris Touches on Screenplay Category Confusion
What makes something original? Mark Harris suggests Oscar screenplay categories need tweaking.
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The Richard Linklater Retrospective: The Wayward and The Future
Taking a third glance backward here, and it isn't the pretty sight it once was, not at all, but the gleaming iridescence of Linklater's greatest works will always shine bright enough to create a fond attitude of sentimental warmth, one that will never truly di...
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The Halftime Report: Our Favorite 15 Films from the Past Six Months At the Movies
Note: Last month the foolish founder of Movie Mezzanine made the grave mistake of publishing a halftime report before it was halftime. He deeply apologizes for the editorial faux pau and hopes you enjoy this now timely piece.
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