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The Timelessness of “Punch-Drunk Love”
Jake Cole takes a longer look at Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love" as it's released on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.
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“Junun” Is A Beautiful Tribute to Artistic Collaboration
Editor's note: We are thrilled to announce that MUBI, the curated online cinema that brings its members a hand-picked selection of the best independent, international, and classic films, is now sponsoring Movie Mezzanine. One of MUBI's current selections is Ju...
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10 Best Picture Nominees That Should Have Won
Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Avatar were all nominated for Best Picture, but failed to hold the statuette. Oscars rarely celebrate the box-office smash or sci-fi adventure film. They represen...
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5 Directors Who Got Snubbed While Their Films Got Nominated
It’s that time of year again, yes, Oscar season. And much love was bestowed on white people and more specifically idiosyncratic white men. But so be it. The Director category looks fairly game this year, if not completely surprising, with nominations going to ...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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Weekend Box Office: White “Exodus”
It was another fairly quiet December weekend at the box office, and another weekend when there was only a couple of major releases. The fact that one of these major releases was simultaneously appealing to the Christian crowd while upsetting anyone who has the...
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“Inherent Vice”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2014 New York Film Festival.
What if Paul Thomas Anderson wasn’t the much-cherished heir apparent to American Cinema that many in certain circles wish him to be? What if the dude just wanted to...
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The Paul Thomas Anderson Retrospective
Though he's only made seven films, Paul Thomas Anderson has nonetheless made an indelible mark upon American cinema, evoking the likes of Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick, but able to form a voice all his own. This December, his latest film, Inherent Vice, hi...
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First “Inherent Vice” Trailer is Totally Bonkers and Wonderful
The first trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson's highly anticipated Thomas Pynchon adaptation Inherent Vice has finally landed online, and I am absolutely speechless. This looks totally loony, and I mean that as a gigantic compliment. As you're watching the traile...
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Netflix Weekend 9/19: Fantastic Fest Edition
This week we’ll be highlighting three films that premiered at Fantastic Fest, to give you all a bit of an idea of what the prominent Austin-based film festival is all about. Those three films are There Will Be Blood, Let the Right One In, and I Saw the Devil. ...
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