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David Lynch’s Art and Life
Justine Smith writes about David Lynch's "The Art Life" and the way avant-garde art has informed his career.
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This Week on MUBI: “Street of Crocodiles”
Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce that MUBI, the curated online cinema that brings its members a hand-picked selection of the best independent, international, and classic films, is sponsoring Movie Mezzanine. You can use the discount on this promo pa...
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The Unnerving Dream Logic of “Mulholland Dr.”
Early in Mulholland Dr., writer/director David Lynch makes a statement that clarifies his larger ambition, in a scene with two men who aren’t shown in any other portion of the film. If you have the subtitles on, or have especially good hearing, you can hear on...
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The Value of Being “Lynchian” Instead of Being Unique
Recently, someone asked me to describe It Follows, David Robert Mitchell’s horror film currently in theaters. Having just seen it and unable to come up with the right words, I immediately settled on “Lynchian” without really knowing why. Afterward, I stitched ...
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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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Sight/Sound: 6 Films Whose Titles Come from Songs
Naming can be difficult, whether it’s a newborn or a startup company. You have to weigh certain qualities: originality, specificity, impact. “Google” doesn’t mean anything, but it worked regardless. Naming a film can be just as cumbersome, and in unique ways. ...
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Crazy Cake Time: Celebrating David Lynch’s Birthday
It is time to celebrate the birthday of cinema’s most influential director of the bizarre. He chills our bones with overwhelming frights, haunts us with unjust happenings beneath beautiful surfaces, makes us laugh at quirky in-jokes, and warms us with heady ro...
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Opening Acts 1/19/2015
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 …
1. Foxcatcher Subject Mark Schultz Recants Criticisms: 'I Was...
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(Death) Scenes from a Marriage: 7 Films to Watch After “Gone Girl”
David Fincher and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl provided countless thinkpieces with their adaptation of Flynn’s bestselling thriller, and much of it wrangled with what exactly the film was trying to say about marriage and about gender. Some called it the most femi...
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Spotlight on Fandor: “Dark Days”
“I’m in the food business now,” Dark Days director Marc Singer told an interviewer in 2011. “I have a company that sells very nice garnishes—garlic, cherries, onions, anything that you’d find in an alcoholic drink.” Aside from the rather hair-raising suggestio...
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