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Time After TIme: Looking Back at “Before Sunrise”
When Peter Bogdanovich interviewed Jimmy Stewart, Stewart told a story about a random guy who once told him, "You did this thing in a movie where you read a poem once … That was good." Stewart realized that the guy was talking about a movie that came out in 19...
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Cine-Math: 5 Film Equations
Let it be known that I exist purely to subvert all of the Asian stereotypes: I quit karate, I can't speak a lick of Chinese, a quit violin, and, much to the chagrin of others', I can't do math for the life of me. So, what have I left other than the movies? Cin...
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Remake My Day: Michael Mann
Stoic loners, secret lifestyles, blurred moral lines, and slick action; these are the things that Michael Mann films are made of. Mann’s recurring proclivities as director have allowed him to endure and flourish in his storied career, measured in decades and p...
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(Death) Scenes from a Marriage: 7 Films to Watch After “Gone Girl”
David Fincher and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl provided countless thinkpieces with their adaptation of Flynn’s bestselling thriller, and much of it wrangled with what exactly the film was trying to say about marriage and about gender. Some called it the most femi...
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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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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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High and Know: On Stoned-Logic and the Expansion of the Stoner Film
In “Film Genre and the Genre Film,” Thomas Schatz lays down a few organizing principles that make up a film genre. Basically, there’s a system of conventions that over time eventually codify into “rules” that clearly identify a genre—think a Western with its r...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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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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Unanimous Praise Ignores the Larger Issues
Perfect ratings on media aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes and MetaCritic are a unique occurrence that come along infrequently. Toy Story 3 was close, but then a review from Armond White came along and scattered any hopes of 100% Fresh rating for the capper to ...
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