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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “A Quiet Passion” and “Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey”
Kenji Fujishima submits this dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival on films by two Ter(r)ences: Davies and Malick.
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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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We’re All Pirates
Online piracy has reached a boiling point. We talk to filmmakers, critics, and publishers about its pervasiveness and long-term effects.
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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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Such a Beautiful Day: On The Works of Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt is, in my not-so-humble opinion, one of the most talented filmmakers working today. That statement may sound hyperbolic, but only until you consider that all of his movies are about stick figures, and that their combined lengths barely adds up t...
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Opening Acts 2/11/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
The film industry’s sorry state: There were fewer female prot...
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10 Best Picture Nominees That Should Have Won
Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Avatar were all nominated for Best Picture, but failed to hold the statuette. Oscars rarely celebrate the box-office smash or sci-fi adventure film. They represen...
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“Medeas”
Arthouse fare nestled within the American heartland is, and probably always shall be, considered Terrence Malick's territory. Hence early analogies drawn between Andrea Pallaoro’s excellent debut, Medeas, and the American maestro's works, currently enjoying a ...
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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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