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“Dior and I”
The challenge: designing a couture collection for the legendary high fashion brand Christian Dior. The contender: Raf Simons, the newly appointed artistic director at the House of Dior. Time: eight stressful weeks in the spring of 2012. The output? That's like...
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So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
It’s difficult to keep track of everything everyone is writing at all times. We’re not going to try to do that. What we at Movie Mezzanine will attempt is to roundup at least ten of the most interesting reads (articles, interviews, think pieces, and the like) ...
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LAFF Review: “Snowpiercer” is Spectacularly Off the Rails
Once upon a time, Bong Joon-Ho's ambitious sci-fi action film Snowpiercer was threatened with an Americanized edit by controversial industry magnate Harvey Weinstein. Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci-fi in general) were understandably ver...
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The Best Film Writing of 2013
Over the past two weeks just about every film site has been publishing lists on top of lists that authoritatively declare The Best and The Worst movies of the year. Movie Mezzanine will be following suit in mid-January, but until then, I've opted to make a dif...
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New ‘Snowpiercer’ Stills Make Wait for US Release Date So Much Worse
The road to getting a solid US release date for Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer has been a ragged one, with the disgruntled director reportedly battling Harvey Weinstein over what he felt were unnecessary cuts made to the film. But it appears that the saga may fin...
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The Weinsten Co. to Distribute Fassbender-Led ‘Macbeth’
It's a good year for Shakespeare adaptations. Snowtown director Justin Kurzel's high-profile Macbeth adaptation will be distributed in the US and Canda by The Weinstein Co., writes The Hollywood Reporter. The film will star Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotill...
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‘Grace of Monaco’ Director Calls Out Harvey Weinstein Over Edits, Blackmail
Without a doubt, Harvey Weinstein has earned his rank as one of the most successful men in Hollywood, but he didn’t get there without bumping a few heads along the way. Now, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Weinstein has incurred the wrath of Grace of M...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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