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So Your Festival Darling Was Bought By Harvey Weinstein
Congrats, lucky filmmaker! Your film was purchased for a record high at a prestigious film festival, and the receipt bears the signature of none other than Harvey Weinstein. Last year at the Berlin Film Festival, Weinstein purchased the U.S. rights to The Imit...
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LVFCS Goes for “Birdman” Down the Line
Boyhood has swept a majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematog...
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District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
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Control The Engine, Control The World: Obsession In “Snowpiercer”
Every filmmaker has their obsessions. Martin Scorsese has examined the ins and outs of Catholic guilt and redemption through a gangland lens since the start of his career. Alfred Hitchcock nursed a predilection for mistaken identity and the kinky duality of tr...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
It’s difficult to keep track of everything everyone is writing at all times. We’re not going to try to do that. What we at Movie Mezzanine will attempt is to roundup at least ten of the most interesting reads (articles, interviews, think pieces, and the like) ...
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Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
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“Snowpiercer” And the Eclectic Whiteness of the Eco-pocalyspse
Note. This review is based on the version screened during the 2014 Berlinale Film Festival.
Joon-ho Bong's The Host was delightfully eclectic, allowing gore and camp to swiftly mingle within a more traditional horror narrative frame. The Korean director's l...
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LAFF Review: “Snowpiercer” is Spectacularly Off the Rails
Once upon a time, Bong Joon-Ho's ambitious sci-fi action film Snowpiercer was threatened with an Americanized edit by controversial industry magnate Harvey Weinstein. Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci-fi in general) were understandably ver...
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Bong Joon-ho‘s ‘Snowpiercer’ Hitting Theaters Summer 2014
The war is over! The Weinstein Co. have denied Western audiences the ability to see Bong Joon-ho‘s Snowpiercer for far too long. The sci-fi film had its world premier in South Korea last summer, but now there's a date in Summer 2014. According to Box Office Mo...
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New ‘Snowpiercer’ Stills Make Wait for US Release Date So Much Worse
The road to getting a solid US release date for Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer has been a ragged one, with the disgruntled director reportedly battling Harvey Weinstein over what he felt were unnecessary cuts made to the film. But it appears that the saga may fin...
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