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The Second Criterion: “Persona”
Few films have been written about and scrutinized as much as Ingmar Bergman's Persona. With so many elements of the feature ripe for discussion, from the unsettling opening sequence to the perceived merging of two separate women, the film has bewildered and fa...
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8 Movies About Summers As An Adult
Summer on film is, understandably, largely portrayed as a time for young people. School's out, sun's out, time to grow and mature while retaining minimal commitments. But summer comes to mean quite a different thing as an adult, retaining though it might the t...
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7 Great Double-Performance Films
Though the theatre certainly has seen its share of actors playing multiple roles - as much a cost-saving measure as an artistic decision, I'm sure - the possibilities have really opened up over the decades on film. Technological developments have made it easie...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Top 10 Classic Star/Director Collaborations
With Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street attacking the box office, awards season, and cheap editorials nationwide, it's as good a time as any to consider those very special working relationships between a director and star that tr...
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History of Film: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Fanny and Alexander’
In spotlighting Ingmar Bergman’s magnum opus Fanny and Alexander as one of the great films of the 1980s, one cannot help but marvel at how out of step with the ‘80s it is, and least of all for its period setting in the early years of the 20th century. In a dec...
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‘Frances Ha’
The opening credits of Noah Baumbach’s last feature, 2010’s Greenberg, play over lingering shots of the film’s co-star Greta Gerwig as she drives around Los Angeles to the tune of Steve Miller Band’s “Jet Airliner”. The shot is unbroken, in profile and close u...
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