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The Gleeful Free-For-All of “Gremlins 2: The New Batch”
Joe Dante’s The Movie Orgy (1968) was, contra its title, less a film than a 7-hour marathon audiovisual DJ set. Conceived and collated by Dante, with the help of his future producing partner Jon Davidson, it was an epic, unwieldy expression of movie love, asse...
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The Directors Who Influenced “Dear White People”
Like so many others before me, I fell into the trap: After sitting down with Dear White People director Justin Simien, the first thing I brought up was Spike Lee. And while my comment didn’t directly concern the fact that both Simien and Lee are black American...
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The Second Criterion: “Persona”
Few films have been written about and scrutinized as much as Ingmar Bergman's Persona. With so many elements of the feature ripe for discussion, from the unsettling opening sequence to the perceived merging of two separate women, the film has bewildered and fa...
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7 Great Double-Performance Films
Though the theatre certainly has seen its share of actors playing multiple roles - as much a cost-saving measure as an artistic decision, I'm sure - the possibilities have really opened up over the decades on film. Technological developments have made it easie...
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