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Grand Budapest Hotel 4
Vagabonding Through Zubrowka: Wes Anderson Style
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a movie that covers a lot of ground. Thematically, it is a heist/caper film following a concierge and his assistant as they escape countless dilemmas. One of the things most interesting about The Grand Budapest Hotel is just how man...
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Future Panic: Temporal Anxiety in 2014 Films
In her 2006 text "Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image," film theorist Laura Mulvey carefully maps out the medium's obsession with death. Celluloid degrades, film preservation provides a finite but eternal life to dead people, and home-viewing of...
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Wes Anderson’s Latest Diorama “The Grand Budapest Hotel” Isn’t His Tidiest
Wes Anderson is cinema’s inner child incarnate. His perfectly crafted interior universes - labyrinthine submarines, exotic trains, prestigious private schools - are populated by imperfect sad souls, live-action Charlie Browns who are forever mourning or resent...
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Top 15 Filmmakers to Look for in 2014
2015 is the year major studios are releasing all of their biggest blockbusters in hopes that their hundred million dollar babies (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman vs. Superman, Star Wars: Episode VII, Hunger Games: Mockingjay and Bond 24) fight to become the mo...
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