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The Year in Film, Superlatives (Part 2)
Movie Mezzanine's writers and editors keep up the weeklong event of talking about the best in film in 2016, continuing with superlative categories.
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Why Long-Take Cinema Should Do More Than Experiment
Kenji Fujishima writes about the recent trend of long-takes in movies such as "Too Late" and "The Revenant."
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Movie Mezzanine’s Critics-At-Large: An Introduction
Introducing our new Critics-at-Large, Mallory Andrews and Vikram Murthi.
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Another Brick: On Identity, Politics, and “Stonewall”
Writing about Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall has been in the back of my mind since the project was announced in 2013, before the trailer, before the promo images. Its presence in my mind as something to consider in any sense was twofold: first, as a newly out que...
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Of Tramps and Men: Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” at 75
Naturally, the first joke in Charlie Chaplin’s first true sound film is silent. The Great Dictator (1940), the filmmaker’s (in)famous takedown of Adolf Hitler at the height of America’s non-interventionist stance on World War II, opens with a disclaimer that m...
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No Heroes, No Villains: An Interview with Joel Potrykus of “Buzzard”
The world doesn’t know director Joel Potrykus yet, but they’re about to. Alongside his muse, Joshua Burge, the director has quietly paid his dues on the indie scene in the last few years. With his second feature, Buzzard, a near-unclassifiable American indie t...
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Bring It On Back: The Best of the ’90s
If Twitter is good for one thing, it’s for satiating our inexplicable desire to make lists. So many a critic and film buff to the micro blogging platform to list the best and/or their favorite films of the 1990s with the hashtag #90sTen. I’m not entire sure wh...
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Falling Stars: The Peril of Fame in Film
Looking from the outside in, the lives of the rich and the famous look pretty spiffy. They live in awesome houses, they wear awesome clothes, they have awesome accoutrements, and they get to do awesome stuff pretty much all day, every day. But if David Bowie a...
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Love Streams: When Serge Wrote Fairytales – “Anna” (1967)
Anna is a classic boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-posts-girl’s-picture-all-over-Paris type of film. Serge, a lovestruck photographer played by Jean-Claude Brialy, desperately looks for the girl he crossed paths with at a train station. Haunted by a photogr...
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Looking for Something That’ll… Break Through: The Posters of David Cronenberg
Film is art. The way a scene is framed can evoke the strongest of emotions. Seeing the face of an excitedly terrified young man as he stares at his older lover through the way her leg seductively bends or having a solitary man walk across a bridge, futuristic ...
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