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Bye Bye Life: “All That Jazz” as Film Criticism
“Sometimes I don’t know where the bullshit ends and the truth begins.” Neither do any of us, really, but so few eviscerate our own lives with the kind of crackling critical energy that Bob Fosse did. As Angelique (Jessica Lange), his own personal angel of deat...
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History of Film: “2001: A Space Odyssey”
It may be only mild hyperbole to state that 2001: A Space Odyssey is, like The Jazz Singer and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Citizen Kane, one of the true monoliths of all cinema, a guiding and transformative force for the future. Divisive as it’s been s...
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History of Film: “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”
I’ve always wondered about the scroll of words at the beginning of 1964’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. They’re so important they precede the Columbia Pictures lady:
“It is the stated position of the U.S. Air Force th...
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History of Film: The Best Movies of the 1960s
It's been a little more than five months since the last installment of our History of Film series, and in that short time Movie Mezzanine has undergone some significant changes. This includes partnerships with Letterboxd and others, accreditation on Rotten Tom...
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Criticism in the Youtube age: The Video Essay in Conversation
“Sometimes you have to look at the postmodern set of circumstances we live in and conclude that the way we review things hasn't changed nearly to the same degree that art has changed.”
Though this quote from Winston Rowntree's recent piece for Cracked isn...
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Inglorious Bastard: The Horror of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “A Clockwork Orange”
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.
I might have been eight or...
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Top 10 Behind-the-Scenes Sports Movies
It seems like you can't round a corner without running into one movie or another telling the so-inspirational story of some underdog athlete who beats the odds and did a thing really really well. But the world of sport is as much a world of business as it is o...
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David Cronenberg Slams Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
In the past few weeks, it's been all the rage to rag on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The man behind the tale of extreme writer's block and telekinesis, Stephen King, recently called the 1980 adaptation of his classic horror novel "misogynistic," among other ...
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History of Film: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’
Michael Mirasol discusses Kubrick's horror masterpiece.
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Neil Jordan’s Fireball Comedy ‘The Butcher Boy’ Rages On
Rarely is digging through a filmmaker's oeuvre so replete with unpredictability and splendor as the grab bag of Neil Jordan. For a director who has regularly surveyed themes of aberrant sexuality, hometown conflict and religious repudiation within a multitude ...
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