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7 Great Movies-Within-Movies
It's hard enough to make one movie, on that we can agree. But it always adds a little extra fun when, within that film, a whole other movie is shown, at least in part. These aren't instances of characters watching real films (a la The Passion of Joan of Arc in...
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Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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Challenging the Canon: “No Country For Old Men”
As widespread as they are, film adaptations of novels rarely come close to satisfying audiences familiar with the source. The relationship between reader and reading material can possess a covetous quality. Novels spark the imagination of an individual, and wh...
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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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Coming Soon: Disappointment!
The evolution of movie trailers is as relevant to the state of cinema as the films themselves. At some point, crafting a trailer came into its own as an isolated art form. Obviously a trailer cannot exist without the film it’s designed to promote, but while tr...
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