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Laura Poitras’s Post-9/11 Trilogy is Complete, and You Can Watch the First Two on Fandor
Last night, Laura Potras’s outstanding film Citizenfour took home the coveted prize for Best Documentary Feature. Undoubtedly one of the most exhilarating experiences one can have whilst watching a film, Poitras takes you inside the hotel room as she, journali...
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How I Survived the Oscars
I enjoy a lot of things. Coffee, movies, movies about coffee (shout out to A Coffee in Berlin), long walks on the beach, etc. I do not enjoy the Oscars. Partially, it’s the pretentious hipster inside of me that’s bitter over films like Under the Skin and Nymph...
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The Single Cinephile’s Guide to Anti-Valentine’s Day Films
To give you a sense of how I feel about Valentine’s Day, I’ll share two short stories. First, a couple years ago, I had a “platonic” Valentine, for whom I prepared Hershey kisses by removing the paper tags in each and replaced them with various lyrics from Elt...
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Film Critic of the Week: Peter Labuza
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle Turner, Chief Editor of Movie Mezzanine’s The Balcony, and welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we have the superb Peter Labuza, whose work h...
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Film Love is Blind: Our Cinematic Infatuations
Perhaps I say this because I live an insulated lifestyle, but I believe cinema has a power to bring out both the best and the very worst in us. You'll find a film that you adore and laud it loudly, but then you encounter someone with the opposite opinion, and ...
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Tainted Love: Inappropriate Relationships in Film
Romantic love can be a highly uncomfortable concept. Two (or three and even more) people suddenly see their private worlds intertwining and their emotions spiraling out of control. I might be exaggerating, of course; real life rarely, if ever, resembles the mo...
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Shall We Dance?: The Best Musical Sequences on Film
It’s not just the tracks from musicals that seem to forever replay themselves on loop in the heads of avid watchers. It’s the theatrics, the shift in lighting, and the vibrancy of actors, staying in sync with their dancing partner. It’s the ability to progres...
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Film Critic of the Week: Marya E. Gates
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle Turner, Chief Editor of Movie Mezzanine’s The Balcony, and welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly podcast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we have the incredible Marya E. Gates, creator ...
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A Reel Boy: “Pinocchio” at 75
A solitary old man lives in an Italian village, spending his waking hours working on all manner of wooden creations, from cuckoo clocks to marionettes. He is awash in loneliness, maintaining relationships with his pet goldfish and cat, the latter of whom he no...
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Film Critic of the Week: Keith Uhlich
Welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we’ve got the estimable Keith Uhlich, who has written for Time Out New York, The L Magazine, The AV Club, To Be Continued, Slant, Revers...
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