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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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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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The Prestige Freak Show: Eddie Redmayne’s Metamorphosis in “The Theory of Everything”
It’s the year of “Oscar’s metamorphosis,” Jenelle Riley beamed in the header of a recent Variety survey of the lead performances anchoring the season’s graduating class of prestige pictures. Reese Witherspoon, she noted, shed her sunshiny demeanour to play a r...
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I Give You My Son: On Cinema As Authorial Therapy, Part 2
It was interesting ending the previous segment with Synecdoche, New York, which ended in the author's creation being led to ruin and despair, because a surprising amount of these authorial therapy films feature apocalypses or apocalyptic imagery to convey the ...
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Netflix Instant Picks 3/29/13—4/4/13
Every week at Movie Mezzanine, we pick some of the best films currently on Netflix Instant in the United States and Canada. Whether they are big releases or hidden gems, these movies make your subscription worth the price. From each library we select one Newly...
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Los Angeles Top 5 (1/11/13–1/18/13)
L.A. is the greatest city on earth to watch movies. Here are this week's best picks.
1. Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons at The Egyptian (FRIDAY 1/11, 7:30PM)
The American Cinematheque is running a program called Motion Picturesque: Cinema At I...
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Individual “Favorites of 2012” Ballots
Below are thirteen individual ballots from each writer on the Movie Mezzanine staff. Hopefully you folks find these intriguing as we offer up an eclectic batch of films. Also, if you haven't done so already, be sure to check out Our 50 Favorites Movies of 2012...
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