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Alive and Amplified: The Best of Scarlett Johansson
Call her Lucy, Janet Leigh, Mary Boleyn, Barbara Sugarman, Silken Floss, or Nola Rice; just don’t call her ScarJo. Scarlett Johansson has been acting since 1994, when she made her debut in Rob Reiner’s North at ten years old, but in the 2010s she has made hers...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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The Space Between Two People: An Interview with John Gallagher Jr.
After leaving a substantial mark on the theater scene with acclaimed performances in blockbuster Broadway musicals like Spring Awakening (for which he won a Tony Award in 2007) and American Idiot, John Gallagher Jr. has, in the past couple years, made inroads ...
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“The Heart Machine”
The Blu-ray release of Her includes a short documentary called Her: Love in the Modern Age, a concise and straightforward survey of a bunch of people discussing how technology has changed the trajectory of romantic relationships in the 21st century. It’s not a...
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Songs in the Key of Cinema: The Magic in “The Moon Song” Heard in “Her”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
The number of films that ...
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Oscar Nominations Are Mostly Unsurprising, Reliably Disheartening
Early this morning, the Oscar nominations were announced by Thor and there were some nice things, some less nice things and some unforgivable things (Lana Del Rey snubbed!). Nine films are up for Best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers C...
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Weekend Box Office: “Lone Survivor” Dominates
Ah, January, that magical time of year when the theater offerings are on the complete opposite spectrums of quality; the gradually expanding Oscar potentials that had limited December releases, and the movies the studios need to dump quietly into theaters to f...
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Film Influencing Fashion: How Consumers Are Staying On-Trend
The return of something thought long gone in men's fashion has resurfaced thanks to the work of costume designer Casey Storm in Spike Jonze's Her, where star Joaquin Phoenix rocks high-waisted trousers. Something familiar to women as a now-stable trend with ev...
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Letterboxd’s Best of 2013
etterboxd is a site that is quickly gaining popularity in the short time it has existed allowing users to log, rate, review and tag movies as they are watched, even following friends to check in onwhat they are watching. Just in 2013 alone, the site has regist...
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Year in Review: Critics and Critic Groups Pick Their Best Films of 2013
December is that joyous (or hellish) time of the year in the world of cinema when publications of all kinds demand that their critics publish their "best films of the year" lists. Since Movie Mezzanine will not be running such a list till early January, we're ...
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