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“Alice Through the Looking Glass” and the Death of Matte Paintings
Josh Spiegel contrasts the lifeless visuals of Alice Through the Looking Glass to the resplendent wonders of Peter Ellenshaw's matte paintings for Disney.
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“Crimson Peak” Is A New High For Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro will not be mistaken. He’d very much like for his new film, the magnificently wrought Crimson Peak, to not be spoken of as a horror film. On Twitter, he clarified that the film is a “Gothic Romance,” and then compared its tense creepiness to...
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“Madame Bovary”
Emma Bovary is famously recognized as one of literature’s least sympathetic heroines. Entitled and selfish, her only driving motivation is an unquenchable hunger for material wealth and passionate affairs with men upon whom she can project her naïve romantic f...
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“Maps to the Stars”
For a director who’s never shot a film in the States before, David Cronenberg surely wastes no energy to ease in to the process with his new effort, and aims for the heart from the get-go. In his uncanny Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars, everyone is haunted ...
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Looking Good, Looking Glass: The Many Iterations of Alice
“You would have to be half mad to dream me up.” The Mad Hatter, as far as characters dreamt up by the illustriously literary genius Lewis Carroll goes, seems to be the one most akin to its creator. Carroll, born 183 years ago on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, ...
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TIFF Dispatch #1: “Foxcatcher”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, and “Maps to the Stars”
So many films—regardless of their genre or origin—deal with the psychology of interpersonal discord that it’s scarcely worth mentioning them as some kind of classifiable phenomenon. But when you watch a variety of films that have little to do with each other—f...
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David Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars” Will See Early 2015 Release
I've got good news, and I've got not-as-good news. The good news is that David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars has finally gotten American distribution! The not-as-good news? We won't see it this year, as distributor Focus World will put out the film in early 2...
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“The Double”: A Harmonious Blend of Orwellian Paranoia and Kafkaesque Psychological Terror
The Double opens with a medium close-up shot of Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg), seated in a moving train. The lights in the tunnel fill the frame intermittently, as do the eerily flickering lights in the train car. Simon seems lost in the disturbing harmony 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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Trailer for David Cronenberg’s “Maps To The Stars” Online
Gather round Cronenberg fans for the first trailer of his latest film Maps To The Stars. This outing finds Cronenberg setting his off-kilter lens onto Hollywood life with a screenplay by Bruce Wagner. The film made the list of our own Russell Hainline's Top 50...
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