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“Our Brand is Crisis” Is Sharp, But Self-Congratulatory
In the most basic terms, any political campaign is an exercise in marketing. Every election, regardless of its geography or scale, is a painstaking branding process where candidates, like cereal or potato chips, are wrapped in attractive packaging and sold via...
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“Manglehorn”
Specialness has always had a vaulted place in the movies. It’s a classic hero’s journey: the discovery that you are destined for greatness or, in the case of epic love stories, the quest for “the one.” It’s an alluringly romantic concept, but its real-world ap...
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Come Fail with Us: “The Life Aquatic” at 10
I first saw The Life Aquatic in late 2004, when it premiered at the Winifred Moore Auditorium as part of the Webster University Film series. The exhibitors had supplied the university with boxes of souvenir caps baring the film’s title and a distinctive traffi...
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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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“Joe” Lets David Gordon Green Out Of His Cage
The rural American South is quickly becoming the setting of choice for filmmakers looking to tell gritty, authentic stories. Last year, there was Jeff Nichols’ Mud, set in a poor Arkansas river town, and this year, HBO’s True Detective set its Southern Gothic ...
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A Brief Reminder: Nicolas Cage Is A Great Actor
When Nicolas Cage appears in a trailer, audiences cringe before he opens his mouth to utter even a single word. They don’t remember the solid actor from Moonstruck, Raising Arizona and Leaving Las Vegas, or even the blockbuster mode Cage from the National Trea...
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Nicolas Cage Returns to Form in ‘Joe’ Trailer
It looks like David Gordon Green and Nicolas Cage are going for some serious, critical acclaim with the film Joe. Word out of Venice and Toronto is that Cage's performance is a return to his career best, as well as a return to better work for Green after Y...
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Al Pacino Struggles to Hide His Past in ‘Manglehorn’
Fresh off the presses at Berlinfest, production company Worldview has released a still from David Gordon Green's next film, Manglehorn, featuring Al Pacino as an ex-con seeking a return to normal life after being in prison for many years.
If Mangelhorn seem...
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The Wandering, Wondering ‘Prince Avalanche’
Many cinema fans have wondered what happened to the David Gordon Green they knew and loved ever since the indie darling went Hollywood. It turns out he's still around, that more sensitive soul buried under the purveyor of weed jokes and Danny McBride. Prince A...
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Our 10 Most Anticipated Films At The Tribeca Film Festival 2013
With the Tribeca Film Festival kicking off in New York City this week, half the battle is figuring out which screenings to attend. Seriously, they hand out color-coded grids to attendees—and we find ourselves making our own personal flowcharts as well. Even th...
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