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Now Playing: “Paterson”
In our first critic-at-large column of 2017, Mallory Andrews reviews the Movie Mezzanine choice for best film of 2016, Jim Jarmusch's "Paterson."
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NYFF 2016: “Gimme Danger” and “Paterson”
Vikram Murthi reviews Jim Jarmusch's two new films, "Gimme Danger" and "Paterson," from the New York Film Festival.
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “Personal Shopper,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Paterson”
Tina Hassannia submits this dispatch of the first few films she's seen at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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This Week on MUBI: “Dead Man”
This week in our MUBI column, Jake Cole looks at the 1995 Jim Jarmusch neo-Western.
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“The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq”
A most curious film, The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq riffs on a mysterious week back in 2011 when the controversial French writer missed several appearances during a book tour, causing speculation that the widely despised raconteur had been kidnapped by I...
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Future Panic: Temporal Anxiety in 2014 Films
In her 2006 text "Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image," film theorist Laura Mulvey carefully maps out the medium's obsession with death. Celluloid degrades, film preservation provides a finite but eternal life to dead people, and home-viewing of...
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Vampire 3.0: How Jim Jarmusch Evolves The Bloodsuckers
Only Lovers Left Alive is Jim Jarmusch' antidote to the declining prestige of the vampire image.
In Jarmusch' latest film a whole army of stars decides to test-ride immortality. However, even though Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, and John Hu...
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“Only Lovers Left Alive”
The main character in Only Lovers Left Alive is literally a romantic. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) is a centuries-old vampire, and according to his lover Eve (Tilda Swinton,) his personality was shaped by Romantic-era “assholes” like Shelley and Byron. Now he resides...
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SXSW Review: Jim Jarmusch Plays By His Own Rules in “Only Lovers Left Alive”
Jim Jarmusch is a filmmaker who has long been concerned with human behavior, forgoing traditional narratives in favor of observing people interacting with one another, without anything ever really “happening”. When things do happen, it is without much fanfare,...
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Top 10 Stuck on Transportation Movies
All movies aim to transport us, but only a few do so by such literal means. In honor of the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, here are, as far as I'm concerned, the top ten films that take place, at least mostly, within the confines of a single mode of t...
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