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The Price of Fame: On “UnREAL”, “Sunset Boulevard”, and More
Valerie Ettenhofer talks about the new season of "UnREAL" in the wake of its finale, and how it relates to "Sunset Boulevard" and "Sweet Smell of Success."
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Falling Stars: The Peril of Fame in Film
Looking from the outside in, the lives of the rich and the famous look pretty spiffy. They live in awesome houses, they wear awesome clothes, they have awesome accoutrements, and they get to do awesome stuff pretty much all day, every day. But if David Bowie a...
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Sunset and Stars: On Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s first film shot in the U.S., is an unapologetic slap in the face of Hollywood. Replete with star-fucking, stalking, suicide, murder, and incest, it's essentially the smarter, meaner twin that ate The Canyons in utero. Star...
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Opening Acts 1/7/2015
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.
For your reading enjoyment …
Oscar Films and the Prison of Historical Accuracy by Bilge Eb...
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“Nightcrawler” For You: How to Succeed at Capitalism Without Really Trying
Nightcrawler is supposedly about ethics in news journalism. To be more specific, the film is about the lack thereof. It’s allegedly similar to Network, Broadcast News, Ace in the Hole, and any number of films about journalists doing shady things or being force...
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History of Film: “The Apartment”
“Your home is your domain” the saying goes, a simple enough concept I've been pondering quite a bit lately, going through a transitional and rather plainly “domainless” phase that will entail living in a temporary arrangement. I suspect anyone who has dealt wi...
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8 Movies About Summers As An Adult
Summer on film is, understandably, largely portrayed as a time for young people. School's out, sun's out, time to grow and mature while retaining minimal commitments. But summer comes to mean quite a different thing as an adult, retaining though it might the t...
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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1960s
It's been a little more than five months since the last installment of our History of Film series, and in that short time Movie Mezzanine has undergone some significant changes. This includes partnerships with Letterboxd and others, accreditation on Rotten Tom...
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Netflix Weekend: Three Films by Billy Wilder
Welcome to Netflix Weekend! Each week I’ll be highlighting three films available to watch on Netflix Instant Watch that (theoretically) will have a coherent theme about them and why they should be watched. This week we’ll be highlighting three classics by lege...
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Top Ten “Too Old for This S***” Movies
In a medium as youth-obsessed as cinema, even stories of aging often address the problem of simply not being young anymore. This can take a variety of forms, the most potent of which often involves a character being forced to face their actions as they realize...
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