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Alien of the Cinema
Colin Stacy writes an appreciation of John Travolta's mid-1990s resurgence, as depicted in three films released in 1996.
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De Palma, “Blow Out” and the Good Scream
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, Emma Stefansky writes about the sound design and cinematography of Brian de Palma's "Blow Out."
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 255: “Phenomenon”
Josh and Gabe talk about the 1996 drama "Phenomenon" in this episode of Mousterpiece Cinema.
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Reasonable Doubt: On “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and “O.J.: Made in America”
Mallory Andrews explores the similarities and differences between the new documentary "O.J.: Made in America," and the recent fictionalized docuseries about his murder trial.
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 233: “Bolt”
Josh and Gabe are joined by Tasha Robinson to talk about Disney's "Bolt."
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NYFF Review: “De Palma”
My Roger Ebert website questionnaire asked for a movie I loved but everyone else hated. I chose Wise Guys, a movie that even hardcore Brian De Palma fans won’t endorse. Released in 1986, the Danny DeVito-Joe Piscopo movie marked its director’s return to comedy...
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Going Glib: On Alex Gibney’s Fleet, Tactless Scientology Exposé
The Church of Scientology is famously thin-skinned as institutions go, but you can’t really fault them for wanting to take a collective hit out on Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief. If the film isn’t quite the polemic its title su...
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The Eyes Behind the Mask: “Pulp Fiction” and Postmodernity 20 Years Later
“I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit.”---Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction
In his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” Marxist critic Frederic Jameson argues that the concept of postmodernism is primarily a product of the social and economic or...
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Mean Girls and Bad Boys: The Messy Gender Politics of “Grease” in 5 Songs
Grease is the word. Its first iteration was as a stage musical, conceived by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, first appearing on stage in Chicago in 1971, and then on Broadway in 1972. With book, music, and lyrics by Jacobs and Warren, the two tackled teenage life...
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Netflix Weekend 8/8: Tarantino Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films by Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown. Why, you ask? Because summer is in the dog days of August, and it’s time for a pallet cleanser from the non-stop parade of studio tent-poles, that...
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