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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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The Bright But Uncertain Future of Film Criticism
Film reviews are tricky things. As a critic, you have to explain enough of what happens in a movie to give readers an idea of what to expect, but that plot description has to be balanced with analysis unless you want to wind up with a flat recap. You have to r...
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Whole Wide World: Living in a Film
Charlie Kaufman once said, “I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night…” Who else but someone as imaginative as Kaufman to say this, the creator of such seemingly real and tangible worlds like the ones in Being John Malkovich and Synecdoc...
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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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Sundance Review: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Finds Life in Being Undead
The latest film from Jim Jarmusch follows two disillusioned vampires living passionately among the rest of us.
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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘Bastards’, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, and ‘La Última Película’
Reviews of Claire Denis' Bastards, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive and La Última Película.
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