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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1970s
A funny thing happened while I was endlessly collecting ballots from staff and friends of Movie Mezzanine this past week. Just about everyone who was kind enough to contribute (see those kind people below) prefaced their individual lists by lamenting just how ...
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‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Could Move to 2014
While all of the hubbub has been focused on which of the fall and winter's feature films could make a run at Best Picture, one high-profile flick may find itself pushed out of the race.
Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is currently slated for a Nov...
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Luc Besson’s ‘The Family’ Amounts to Nada
A grumpy Robert De Niro walks into a movie theater with an even grumpier Tommy Lee Jones. They each take their reserved seating on the front row, only to be informed that the film they were originally gonna watch, Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, was mis...
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History of Film: Martin Scorsese’s ‘Raging Bull’
I’m one of those who believes Raging Bull is the best film of the 1980’s.
It’s a lyrical, operatic, and brutal masterpiece from director Martin Scorsese who would helm multiple masterpieces throughout his career. However, while such qualities can come toget...
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Summer of Nick: ‘Taxi Driver’
This weekend saw the release of Paul Schrader’s (director of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and writer of Raging Bull) newest film The Canyons. Released on VOD Schrader's latest is very much a film of the now. From its Kickstarter origins to its release plat...
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Netflix Instant Picks 4/5/13—4/11/13
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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Netflix Instant Picks 3/22/13—3/28/13
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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The Needle Drop: ‘Mean Streets’ and “Mickey’s Monkey”
The Needle Drop examines the relationship between a film and its soundtrack, how a song or score cue can set or upend the tone of a shot, a character, the movie itself.
In a film as full of moments between the interaction between music and image as Mean Str...
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Something Old, Something New: The Last Temptation of Christ / Lincoln
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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