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No Home Video: On Women-Directed Films
Boutique labels--including Criterion--speak up about why there aren't more female-directed films on home media.
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The 20 Best French Horror Films Ever
In France, the idea of horror is a little different than in Hollywood. In the past, French horror directors generally eschewed jump scares in favor of a feeling of creeping death. Cameras were distant, characters were blank and horror was imposing, if not a na...
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Now Playing: Movie Mezzanine + To Be Cont’d
Since the inception of Movie Mezzanine in the winter of 2013, it’s been a series of trials and errors. We’ve undergone myriad redesigns, editorial changes, hirings and firings, grand openings and grand closings of new subsections. Throughout this time, I have ...
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Claire Denis
by Darren Hughes and Michael Leary
Darren is a communications professional and freelance writer in Knoxville, TN. He’s a longtime contributor toSenses of Cinemaand MUBI’s Notebook and blogs on occassion at longpauses.com. Michael is co-editor ofFilmwell and h...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “35 Shots of Rum”
Claire Denis upends two overused household tropes with her most elegiac feature, 35 Shots of Rum, with her acute eye for humane detail. First, she avoids the depiction of domestic spaces as consumerist prisons that place traps on everyone (especially women) wi...
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“My Name is Hmmm…”
As a lifelong lover of cinema and patron to the likes of Harmony Korine, Gaspar Noé, and Claire Denis, it’s surprising that 73-year-old Agnès Troublé, a.k.a acclaimed fashion designer agnès b, wasn’t bitten by the filmmaking bug until now. Her debut feature, M...
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The Claire Denis Retrospective
Claire Denis is a woman of few words, so I shall use that as an excuse to introduce this retrospective briefly. Though I have seen all of Denis' features now, it feels to me that we barely know each other, that the more we learn, the more we know we do not kno...
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Netflix Instant Picks (9/20/13—9/26/13)
Jake Cole selects three films to stream on Netflix the week of Sept. 20.
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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘Bastards’, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, and ‘La Última Película’
Reviews of Claire Denis' Bastards, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive and La Última Película.
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On the Lack of Women in Our Top 15 Directors
If you haven’t already, I urge you to read our post from yesterday in which the Movie Mezzanine staff got together and made a list of the Top 15 Working Directors. If you take the list as reflecting where cinematic appreciation is currently, it holds up quite ...
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