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Brando vs. Brando: Dueling Visions Of The Icon
Was latter-day Marlon Brando the corpulent madman of myth, or a visionary genius who’d already moved on to the next level of movie acting? While the perception of the 20th century’s most famous actor as a paycheck-cashing recluse in his later years endures in ...
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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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The Savage Cinematic Beauty of Alexander McQueen
Striking compositions. Immaculate execution. Unapologetic provocations. It may sound like the work of a cinematic enfant terrible like Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine, but from the iconic bumsters to the horn adorned jackets to the infamous 12 inch scaled hee...
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“My Name is Hmmm…”
As a lifelong lover of cinema and patron to the likes of Harmony Korine, Gaspar Noé, and Claire Denis, it’s surprising that 73-year-old Agnès Troublé, a.k.a acclaimed fashion designer agnès b, wasn’t bitten by the filmmaking bug until now. Her debut feature, M...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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7 Movies I’ve Seen More Times Than I Can Count
I think anyone that loves movies has some that they’ve seen a million times, give or take. These may not be their favourite films, and sometimes they may not even be particularly great ones, but for one reason or another, you’ve revisited them time and time ag...
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Korine’s Angels: The Ironic Harmony of “Everytime” and “Spring Breakers”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film. We'll explore how a piece of music fits within the context of a film as a whole, and we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
There were snickers in ...
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8 Dynamic Female Felons in Movies
If you've spent this past weekend devouring the entire new season of Orange is the New Black (I'm only about four episodes in myself), and are eager to see other awesome representations of women who take to the criminal lifestyle, here are some good places to ...
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“Spring Breakers: The Second Coming” Is…Coming
It's happening. There is a sequel in development to 2013's masterpiece of neon-tinged debauchery, Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers. Titled Spring Breakers: The Second Coming (obviously), it appears that the production company Wild Bunch is going to the Cannes ...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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