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Adult Beginners: “Breathless”
Alissa Wilkinson continues her Adult Beginners column with the French film "Breathless."
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Blu-ray Review: “Every Man for Himself”
Jean-Luc Godard’s so-called “second first film” isn’t really a patented return to zero, even if it does betray flashes of modern and postmodern references to Breathless. Techniques honed on video crop up throughout, and the tone is clearly that of an older, mo...
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High and Know: On Stoned-Logic and the Expansion of the Stoner Film
In “Film Genre and the Genre Film,” Thomas Schatz lays down a few organizing principles that make up a film genre. Basically, there’s a system of conventions that over time eventually codify into “rules” that clearly identify a genre—think a Western with its r...
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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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The Second Criterion: “Breathless”
The definitive film of the French New Wave, Breathless set the bar for everything that was to come. Nothing since has drastically changed the way films are concocted quite like this 1960 gem. For all its many accomplishments, the film itself is a miserable aff...
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Remembering Roger Ebert on His Birthday
If Roger Ebert were alive today he would be celebrating four decades of gainful employment at the Chicago Sun-Times, a 21 year marriage with the lovely Chaz Ebert, and most importantly, his 71st birthday. Unfortunately as we all know Ebert died this past April...
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