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“Paulo Coelho’s Best Story” Is Too Trite To Be His Best
Brazilian renaissance man Paulo Coelho has lived a life best described as quixotic. He’s well-known for penning The Alchemist, a slim tome that’s become the most widely translated novel by a living author. Left in the margins of his literary success are a vari...
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Blu-ray Review: “The Zero Theorem”
Distributor: Well Go USA
Release Date: January 20, 2015
MSRP: $29.98
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Film: C- / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: C-
The Zero Theorem begs comparisons to Terry Gilliam’s magnum opus, the ornate dystopian epic Brazil, from the word go: It feat...
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Calling The Shots: 3 Defining Images from Terry Gilliam’s Filmography
This week finally sees the home release of Terry Gilliam’s latest effort, The Zero Theorem. The film itself is debatable, but it does lie in the better camp of Gilliam’s films for me personally for one reason mainly. There was one shot in the film that transce...
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“Elena” Experiments With The Documentary Form To Encouraging Effect
Director Petra Costa has taken the documentary as personal investigation in a new direction with Elena, which is heavily infused with the influence of her acknowledged idol, Chris Marker. Oneiric and kaleidoscopic, the film shuffles symbolic imagery into its p...
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Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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History of Film: Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’
Editor's note: Brazil is one of the ten best films of the 1980s voted on by staff, friends, and readers of Movie Mezzanine. For the sake of surprise and building anticipation, we'll wait to reveal where this and every other film ranks on the list until the ver...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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