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Alive and Amplified: The Best of Scarlett Johansson
Call her Lucy, Janet Leigh, Mary Boleyn, Barbara Sugarman, Silken Floss, or Nola Rice; just don’t call her ScarJo. Scarlett Johansson has been acting since 1994, when she made her debut in Rob Reiner’s North at ten years old, but in the 2010s she has made hers...
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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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Songs in the Key of Cinema: The Magic in “The Moon Song” Heard in “Her”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
The number of films that ...
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Top 10 Science Fiction Films of This World
Science fiction, that genre so perfectly suited to speculate on the future, re-imagine the past, and conjure entire worlds that seem impossible by any logical standard, is sometimes at its most compelling by casting new light on the present, the precise time a...
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Film Influencing Fashion: How Consumers Are Staying On-Trend
The return of something thought long gone in men's fashion has resurfaced thanks to the work of costume designer Casey Storm in Spike Jonze's Her, where star Joaquin Phoenix rocks high-waisted trousers. Something familiar to women as a now-stable trend with ev...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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‘Her’ Is As Cold As A Computer Program
Spike Jonze's meditation on loneliness is as ugly and antiseptic as the technology it depicts.
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Her’
I've loved all of Spike Jonze's work, but I was incredibly skeptical of Her. What looked like a story about a man falling in love with Siri, complete with him spinning in romantic circles with his phone, just seemed like too much. It was a rotten attitude to b...
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Birthday Wishes: Spike Jonze (44)
Educated at SFAI in San Francisco, Spike Jonze has been working steadily in commercials, music videos and film since the early 90's. He directed infamous music videos such as 'Buddy Holly' for Weezer and 'Sabotage' for the Beastie Boys before segueing into fil...
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Daily TIFF Dispatch: McConaughey Goes Gaunt, Spike Jonze Talks to Reichardt
Ryan McNeil provides his daily dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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