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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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Netflix Weekend 8/29: “Let Go Your Earthly Tether”
This week, I’ll be highlighting three films about lovers in existential crises, or as I like to say struggling to “let go your earthly tether”. Just bear with me, ok? This one’s a little more inspired than usual. Our three films are Abbas Kiarostami’s Certifie...
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Terrence Malick Nearing Completion on “Voyage of Time” for 2016; IMAX Release planned Worldwide
After directing only 4 feature films within a 32 year span, Malick has since been making up for lost time. He released The Tree of Life and To The Wonder within 2 years of each other and has 3 projects all in various stages of post production now. While we kno...
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The Second Criterion: “Badlands”
At the age of 27, Terrence Malick created what would be the screenplay for one of finest feature debuts for Badlands. It was loosely-based on the story of Charles Starkweather, a 19-year old warehouse worker who had a taste for murder. In December 1957, Starkw...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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For Your Reconsideration: ‘To the Wonder’
Reaching out is both the quintessential gesture and the central image of Terrence Malick’s films – his latest one being no exception. To the Wonder offers numerous shots of extended hands brushing against objects as different as rock, grass and a lover’s skin....
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History of Film: 1970s Results
Over the past two weeks hardworking Movie Mezzanine authors have penned impassioned and thoughtful examinations of the ten best movies of the 1970s (as voted here). Now that the ten movies you folks chose to define a decade in cinema have been revealed, it's t...
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History of Film: ‘Days of Heaven’
Malick's second film is a gorgeous look at two lovers on the run in the Texas Panhandle.
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I Give You My Son: On Cinema As Authorial Therapy, Part 2
It was interesting ending the previous segment with Synecdoche, New York, which ended in the author's creation being led to ruin and despair, because a surprising amount of these authorial therapy films feature apocalypses or apocalyptic imagery to convey the ...
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The Second Criterion: ‘Days of Heaven’
In any Terrence Malick film, themes are essential to understanding his film. While his later work are overt about their ideas -- The Tree of Life presents the entire thesis of the film in voiceover -- Days of Heaven is the film I’ve always found his most diffi...
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