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The Possibility of the Musical
Kenji Fujishima explores the connection between "La La Land" and the American remake of "Pennies from Heaven" in this essay.
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Damien Chazelle’s Aloof Dreamers
Angelo Muredda takes a look at Damian Chazelle's new modern musical "La La Land" and its two, star-crossed lovers.
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Getting Excited About the Future of Film: TIFF 2016 Wrap-Up
Tina Hassannia and Kenji Fujishima talk about their experiences at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “La La Land,” “Re (Assignment),” and “Colossal”
Tina Hassannia submits this dispatch of a trio of films premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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What We’re Excited To See at TIFF 2016
Kenji Fujishima and Tina Hassannia preview the films they're most excited for at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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Financial Meltdown: Portraying Wall Street Onscreen
Christina Newland on the recent trend of Wall Street-centric movies that valorize its characters.
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Adam McKay: From “The Other Guys” To “The Big Short”
Director Adam McKay’s jump from some of the most notorious bro comedies of the millennia (Anchorman, Talladega Nights) to The Big Short, a film about the global economic recession, might seem extreme even to discerning moviegoers. But those familiar with McKay...
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“The Big Short” Winds Up Being Vaguely Condescending
The fundamental argument of Adam McKay’s The Big Short, adapted from Michael Lewis’s overview of the housing collapse of the late 2000s, is that the basic truths of the economic collapse are easy to understand but are made difficult by the architects of that c...
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Realerotik: A Brief History of Live Sex in Cinema
In 1964, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart made history by using the most plain-and-simple phrasing in his vocabulary to express his definition of hardcore pornography, declaring, “I know it when I see it.” In the eleventh episode of the third season of the...
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The Value of Being “Lynchian” Instead of Being Unique
Recently, someone asked me to describe It Follows, David Robert Mitchell’s horror film currently in theaters. Having just seen it and unable to come up with the right words, I immediately settled on “Lynchian” without really knowing why. Afterward, I stitched ...
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